This paper introduces a new kind of local consistency based on the general idea of singleton arc consistency (SAC). This is a reduced form of SAC that only considers neighbourhoods of a variable with a singleton domain; hence, the name “neighbourhood SAC” (NSAC). Like AC and SAC, NSAC has a unique fixpoint, so that NSAC algorithms will produce the same result when applied to a problem regardles...

a bstra ct   background: vascular access complications are a major cause of excessive morbidity and mortality in the dialysis population. moreover, there is not sufficient research regarding the factors correlated with vascular access complications among hemodialysis patients. this study aimed to evaluate the vascular access complications and their related factors such as nursing techniques and...

L-Tyrosine azobenzene-p-arsonate (RAT) induced cellular immunity without antibody production in guinea pigs. Bifunctional antigens were prepared consisting of one RAT carrier moiety linked either directly to a dinitrophenyl (DNP) haptenic determinant or through one or more 6-amino-caproyl (SAC) spacers. Each SAC unit has an extended span of 8 A. Guinea pigs immunized with these conjugates devel...

background: patients with end‑stage renal disease (esrd) who receive dialysis confront the burdens of long‑term illness and numerous physical problems. materials and methods: this was a quasi-experimental study. the selected patients from gorgan dialysis centre were randomly assigned into an empowerment group ( n = 40) and a control group ( n = 40). instruments comprised scales of empowerment a...

Three novel classes of optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) based on combinatorial designs are proposed. They are applicable to both synchronous and asynchronous incoherent optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) and compatible with spectral-amplitude-coding (SAC), fast frequency hopping, and time-spreading schemes. Simplicity of construction, larger codeword families, and larger flexibility i...

We present a case of 16-year-old male, who was referred from private centre for dyspnoea, fatigue, and orthopnea. The chest radiograph revealed complete opacification of left chest which was confirmed by computed tomography as a large left mediastinal mass measuring 14 × 15 × 18 cm. The diagnostic needle core biopsy revealed mixed germ cell tumour with possible combination of embryonal carcinom...

-A new code for Spectral Amplitude Coding Optical Code Division Multiple Access (SAC-OCDMA) is proposed and is called Flexible Cross-correlation (FCC) code. The FCC code possesses various advantages; including easy code construction using Tridiagonal matrix compared to other SAC-OCDMA codes such as MDW, MQC and MFH, shorter code length and the important properties of this code is the flexible c...

Introduction: Cervical spinal stenosis has been established as a predisposing factor of cervical myelopathy and is associated with cord injury. Space available for the (SAC) can be used an indicator stenosis.
 Methods: This study was performed on patients referred MRI examinations spine various clinical indications to tertiary centre in Nepal. Data were collected period four months from Ja...