background and objectives: sarcopenia is explained as age-related reduction in muscle mass and performance. some of the most important risk factors for sarcopenia include age, malnutrition, and sedentary life style. the aim of this study was to investigate the association of food intake and physical activity with body composition, muscle strength and muscle function in post-menopausal women. ma...

Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related systems, are represented as computational workflows composed out of multiple components. There are several approaches that help a user compose these workflows. Some composition systems implement a user-system interactive approach (Kim, Spraragen, and Gil 2004). These systems are useful for expressing user...

Prior work on organization in free recall has focused on the ways in which semantic and temporal information determine the order in which material is retrieved from memory. Tulving's theory of ecphory suggests that these organizational effects arise from the interaction of a retrieval cue with the contents of memory. Using the continual-distraction free-recall paradigm [Bjork, R. A., & Whitten,...

Classical planning representations such as PDDL are primarily designed for goal-oriented problem solving, but some tasks such as creative composition lack a well defined goal. Structured performing arts, despite lacking a specific goal for their composition tasks, can be sufficiently expressed as goal-oriented problems for their performance tasks. Using contradance as an example performing art,...

Historically, programming languages have been—benevolent—dictators: reducing all possible semantics to specific ones offered by a few built-in language constructs. Over the years, some programming languages have freed the programmers from the restrictions to use only built-in libraries, built-in data types, and builtin type-checking rules. Even though—arguably—such freedom could lead to anarchy...

We consider the composition optimization with two expected-value functions in the form of 1 n ∑n i=1 Fi( 1 m ∑m j=1Gj(x))+ R(x), which formulates many important problems in statistical learning and machine learning such as solving Bellman equations in reinforcement learning and nonlinear embedding. Full Gradient or classical stochastic gradient descent based optimization algorithms are unsuitab...

abstract: chemical composition of lavandula angustifolia was studied by solvent free microwave extraction (sfme) and hydrodistillation (hd) methods. 1, 8-cineole (42.7% and 37.9%), camphor (26.1% and 21.3%) and borneol (31.2% and 21.6%) were the major compounds that obtained by sfme and hydrodistillation, respectively. the antibacterial activity of extracted oils was investigated against gram-p...

modifications in fat and fatty acid composition of silver carp that take place at each stage of canning process (precooking and sterilization) were evaluated. results showed, precooking led to decrease total fat and increase conjugated dines. the amounts of free fatty acids and thiobarbituric acids had no changed during precooking but these compounds like conjugated dine were increased after st...