Allele frequency distributions of nine short tandem repeat (STR) loci, D3S1358, vWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D7S820, and D13S317, HLA-DQA1 and polymarker (PM) loci were studied in a sample population from Sultanate of Oman, Middle East. Blood samples were collected from 162 unrelated individuals. For all STR, HLA-DQA1 and PM loci, no deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, bas...

We report extended analysis for measurement of generation lifetime and surface generation velocity, sg, on advanced gate stack with high-κ dielectric using leakage current characteristics in inversion condition. Proposed technique was examined on Ru/HfO2/Si MOS capacitor annealed in forming gas (90% N2 + 10% H2) at temperatures 430 and 510 °C. It was found that sg decreases with FGA temperature...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a severe chronic psychiatric disorder for which treatment compliance is important in the prevention of relapse. Second generation antipsychotics (SGA), such as Risperidone, have been found to be more effective in the treatment of such patients than the high potency first generation antipsychotics (FGA). This is an open study where the same group of patients was first...

The cognitive advantage (CA) hypothesis claims that multilingualism promotes the development of several basic capacities. A large number empirical findings support this hypothesis, but recently there have also been numerous contradictory and methodological objections. present paper extends investigation possible advantages from (executive) functions to broader competencies such as flexibility. ...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate patterns of failure time after insertion, failure rate according to loading time after insertion, and the patterns of failure after loading. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 331 mini-implants were classified into the non-failure group (NFG) and failure group (FG), which was divided into failed group before loading (FGB) and failed group after lo...

Water pollution has become a worldwide problem due to ever-increasing industrial wastewater. An ideal adsorbing material is able remove oils, organic solvents and dyes from water efficiently, particularly with high adsorption capacity reusability. Herein, the authors report novel strategy of synthesis three-dimensional functionalized graphene aerogel (FGA) porous structures for effective purifi...

Precise point positioning (PPP) technology is mostly implemented with an ambiguity-float solution. Its performance may be further improved by performing ambiguity-fixed resolution. Currently, the PPP integer ambiguity resolutions (IARs) are mainly based on GPS-only measurements. The integration of GPS and GLONASS can speed up the convergence and increase the accuracy of float ambiguity estimate...

Adversarial social network analysis studies how graphs can be rewired or otherwise manipulated to evade tools. While there is ample literature on manipulating simple networks, more sophisticated types are much less understood in this respect. In paper, we focus the problem of evading FGA---an edge weight prediction method for signed weighted networks by Kumar et al. 2016. Among others, used tru...