STUDY OBJECTIVES Explore characteristics of nonrestorative sleep (NRS) in prospectively defined subgroups of individuals with NRS symptoms, investigate whether NRS can occur independently of difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep (DIS/DMS), and determine its effect on waking function. DESIGN Cross-sectional and longitudinal population-based study comparing patterns of daytime symptoms,...

We developed a module describing the dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfide (DMS) dynamics, including biological transformations by phytoplankton and bacteria, and physico-chemical processes (including DMS air-sea exchange). This module was integrated in the MIRO ecological model and applied in a 0D frame in the Southern North Sea (SNS). The DMS(P) module is built on parameteriza...

The Data Management System (DMS) is the information and communications system on-board Space Station Freedom. Extensive modeling of the DMS is being conducted throughout NASA to aid in the design and development of this vital system. In this paper we discuss activities at NASA Ames Research Center to model the DMS network infrastructure, focusing on modeling of the Fiber Distributed Data Interf...

This study explores the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in narrative essays 85 Jordanian high school students adopting Frasers’s (2006) framework. The results show that most frequently used DMs were elaborative (55.1%), followed by temporal (31.4%), inferential (9.3%) contrastive (4%) respectively. Regarding DMs, reveal participants employed to express addition information, sequenc...

This research was designed to investigate the effects of discourse markers on EFL Iranianlearners' listening comprehension. Fifty eight male and female students took a pre-test as aproficiency test first, 39 students out of 58 are needed. To gain this aim, a language proficiencytest, i.e., Nelson test will be given to the total participants. After calculating Mean and StandardDeviation, each pe...

In this paper, a new soft computing group decision method based on the concept of compromise ratio is introduced for determining decision makers (DMs)' weights through the group decision process under uncertainty. In this method, preferences and judgments of the DMs or experts are expressed by linguistic terms for rating the industrial alternatives among selected criteria as well as the relativ...

A novel ranking method based on multi-time information fusion is proposed for intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and applied to the threat assessment problem, a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) one. This method integrates a designed intuitionistic fuzzy entropy (IFE), the closeness degree of technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), the decision maker¡¯s (DM¡¯...

We exhibit an explicit list of nine graphs such that a graph drawn in the Klein bottle is 5-colorable if and only if it has no subgraph isomorphic to a member of the list. 31 August 2007, revised 18 January 2012. Partially supported by NSF under Grant No. DMS-0200595. Partially supported by NSF under Grants No. DMS-0200595, DMS-0354742, and DMS-0701077. Partially supported by NSF Graduate Fello...

Research partially supported by NSF grants DMS-9803181 and DMS-0103895, AFOSR grant F49620-96-1-0100, a University of Michigan Rackham Fellowship, and an NSF group infrastructure grant at the University of Michigan Research partially supported by NSF grants DMS-9803181 and DMS-0103895, AFOSR grant F49620-96-1-0100, and an NSF group infrastructure grant at the University of Michigan Research par...

For decades, the spread of disinformation in online social networks (OSNs) has been a serious issue. Disinformation via media can easily mislead people’s beliefs toward or against an event that may their behaviors based on misbeliefs. The game theory approaches have proposed under dynamic settings to limit adverse influences disinformation. It is challenge expand users’ strategies from spreadin...