Software testing requires executing software under test with the intention of finding defects as much as possible. Test case generation remains the most dominant research in software testing. The technique used in generating test cases may lead to effective and efficient software testing process. Many techniques have been proposed to generate test cases. One of them is State Sensitivity Partiti...

BACKGROUND Personality is considered as an important aspect in persons with psychotic disorders. Several studies have investigated personality in schizophrenia. However, no study has investigated stability of personality traits exceeding three years in patients with schizophrenia. This study aims to investigate the stability of personality traits over a five-year period among patients with schi...

There is considerable evidence that schizophrenia spectrum personality (SSP) disorders mark genetic risk for schizophrenia. Use of the spectrum phenotype in genetic and neurophysiological studies may prove informative. However, the degree to which the current diagnostic criteria correspond with genetic risk is unclear. This can be assessed by observing how measures of liability among SSP subjec...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of tooth displacement and vibration on frictional force and stickslip phenomenon (SSP) when conventional brackets were used with a levelling/alignment wire. Materials and Methods: The samples consisted of six groups (n = 10 per group) with combinations of tooth displacement (2 mm lingual displacement [LD], 2 mm gingival displacement [GD], and no displacement [...

The present study aimed to explore the factors that affect polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and to establish an optimized PCR-SSP method for detecting multiple gene polymorphisms simultaneously. The amplification system parameters, including the concentrations of Mg2+, dNTPs, pfu Taq, primers and control primers, were optimized using the designed PCR-SSP react...

AIM OF THE STUDY Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression has been observed in a substantial percentage of classical adenomas of the large bowel. The aim of the study was to assess and compare the expression of COX-2 in serrated polyps of the colon. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and nineteen serrated polyps were analyzed. There were 83 hyperplastic polyps (HP), 19 sessile serrated polyps (SSP) ...

The envelope glycoprotein of the Junı́n arenavirus (GP-C) mediates entry into target cells through a pHdependent membrane fusion mechanism. Unlike other class I viral fusion proteins, the mature GP-C complex retains a cleaved, 58-amino-acid signal peptide (SSP) as an essential subunit, required both for trafficking of GP-C to the cell surface and for the activation of membrane fusion. SSP has be...

Strong stability preserving (SSP) high order Runge–Kutta time discretizations were developed for use with semi-discrete method of lines approximations of hyperbolic partial differential equations, and have proven useful in many other applications. These high order time discretization methods preserve the strong stability properties of first order explicit Euler time stepping. In this paper we a...

We explore various estimators for the parameters of a pair-copula construction (PCC), among those the stepwise semiparametric (SSP) estimator, designed for this dependence structure. We present its asymptotic properties, as well as the estimation algorithm for the two most common types of PCCs. Compared to the considered alternatives, i.e. maximum likelihood, inference functions for margins and...