Plane waves and Confined Localized Orbitals have been used to construct a new mixed basis for electronic structure calculations. Confinement is a mathematical transformation which smoothly suppresses the tails of the atomic orbitals. This eliminates multicentre integrals in the expressions for the matrix elements. Using self-consistent potentials supplied by the linear muffin tin orbital method...

in this paper, we will present a modification of the preconditioned aor-type method for solving the linear system. a theorem is given to show the convergence rate of modification of the preconditioned aor methods that can be enlarged than the convergence aor method.

in this paper, we present a new iterative method with order of convergence eighth for solving nonlinear equations. periteration this method requires three evaluations of the function and one evaluation of its first derivative. a general error analysis providing the eighth order of convergence is given. several numerical examples are given to illustrate the efficiency and performance of the new ...

Determining the fault location using conventional impedance based distance relay in the presence of FACTS controllers is a challenging task in a transmission line. A new distance protection method is developed to locate the fault in a transmission line compensated with STATCOM with simple calculations. The proposed protection method considers the STATCOM injected/absorbed current to correct the...

In infants and children, anomalous origin of the left coronary artery (ALCA) from the pulmonary artery may be difficult to distinguish from congestive cardiomyopathy (CCM) of other causes. We performed thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging in seven children with ALCA and in nine with CCM to study the usefulness of this technique in distinguishing between these lesions. Localized abnormaliti...

In some practical Neural Network (NN) applications, fast response to external events within enormously short time is highly demanded. However, by using back propagation (BP) based on gradient descent optimisation method obviously not satisfy in several application due to serious problems associated with BP which are slow learning convergence velocity and confinement to shallow minima. Over the ...

Hemoglobin is a promising drug carrier but lacks extensive investigation. The chemical conjugation of hemoglobin and drugs is costly and complex, so we have developed curcumin-loaded hemoglobin nanoparticles (CCM-Hb-NPs) via self-assembly for the first time. Using the acid-denaturing method, we avoid introducing denaturants and organic solvents. The nanoparticles are stable with uniform size. W...

BACKGROUND A novel descriptor (Complex Correlation Measure (CCM)) for measuring the variability in the temporal structure of Poincaré plot has been developed to characterize or distinguish between Poincaré plots with similar shapes. METHODS This study was designed to assess the changes in temporal structure of the Poincaré plot using CCM during atropine infusion, 70° head-up tilt and scopolam...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Preliminary observations suggesting the presence of B and plasma cells and oligoclonality of immunoglobulin (Ig) G in cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) have motivated a systematic study correlating the infiltration of the immune cells with clinical activity and antigen-triggered immune response in surgically excised lesions. METHODS Infiltration of plasma, B, T, an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pathogenesis of cerebral venous malformation (CVM) is unknown. Because of coexistence of CVM and cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM), some studies have suggested that these 2 entities share a common origin and pathogenetic mechanism. METHODS We have identified and ascertained over 200 families with CCM. Among these, 1 unique family was found to have members affected ...