Abstract Introduction Platelet aggregation plays a significant role in the etiology of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, treatments to inhibit platelet aggregation can reduce the risk of coronary thrombosis. Several studies indicated that garlic can inhibit platelet aggregation. This study aimed to determine the effect of garlic in comparison with Plavix on platelet aggregation. Materials ...

protein aggregation and precipitation is associated with many debilitating diseases including alzheimer's, parkinson's, and light-chain amyloidosis. β-casein, a member of the casein family, has been demonstrated to exhibit chaperone-like activity to protect protein form aggregation. hofmeister salts (lyotropice series) are a class of ions which have an effect on the solubility and also the stab...

Aggregation has been an important operation since the early days of relational databases. Today’s Big Data applications bring further challenges when processing aggregation queries, demanding adaptive aggregation algorithms that can process large volumes of data relative to a potentially limited memory budget (especially in multiuser settings). Despite its importance, the design and evaluation ...

In this article we define some aggregation operators for bipolar-valued hesitant fuzzy sets. These operations include bipolar-valued hesitant fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (BPVHFOWA) operator, bipolar-valued hesitant fuzzy ordered weighted geometric (BPVHFOWG) operator and their generalized forms. We also define hybrid aggregation operators and their generalized forms and solved a decision-m...

In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem based on the arithmetic and geometric aggregation operators with interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. Then, motivated by the ideal of traditional arithmetic operation, we have developed some aggregation operators for aggregating interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic information: i...

Traffic aggregation is a basic networking operation that merges separate traffic streams in network switching and cross-connect nodes. This paper discusses the experimental results on a generalized and protocol-independent self-similar traffic generator based on the RPG model of OPNET. The aggregation processes results from merging of multiple traffic traces with various Hurst parameters, where...

The benefit of aspirin use after coronary artery bypass graft surgery has been well proven. However, the effect of preoperative aspirin use in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (OPCAB) has not been evaluated sufficiently. To evaluate platelet function changes during OPCAB due to preoperative aspirin use, we conducted a randomized controlled trial using flow cytom...

Sugeno integral is one of the basic aggregation operations on a qualitative scale where only minimum and maximum, as well as order-reversing maps are allowed. Recently some variants of this aggregation operation, named soft and drastic integrals, have been introduced in a previous work by three of the authors. In these operations, importance weights play the role of tolerance thresholds enablin...

In a large sensor network, in-network data aggregation is inherently used as a communication paradigm which reduces the number of packets transmitted and hence the energy consumed. However the unattended and hostile operation of sensor network makes the system vulnerable to node compromise attack. The compromised nodes can inject false data in to the network which deteriorates the accuracy of t...

Further improvements in demand response programs implementation are needed in order to take full advantage of this resource, namely for the participation in energy and reserve market products, requiring adequate aggregation and remuneration of small size resources. The present paper focuses on SPIDER, a demand response simulation that has been improved in order to simulate demand response, incl...