Introduction Flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) is the muscle which responsible from the skill actions of the fingers. It has three heads including humeral, ulnar and radial; generally the humeral and ulnar heads are fused together and called as humeroulnar head. The muscle fibers reach the other fingers except the thumb. Each of the muscle beams divides into two parts at the level of the 1st...

Occurrence of faults in wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) is inevitable. In order to detect the occurred faults at the appropriate time, avoid heavy economic losses, ensure safe system operation, prevent damage to adjacent relevant systems, and facilitate timely repair of failed components; a fault detection system (FDS) is required. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have gained a noticeabl...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE FDs are the latest, most promising tool to treat giant and complex aneurysms. Currently available experimental aneurysm models do not reproduce the potential clinical difficulties of treating these lesions with FDs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Six large or giant canine fusiform aneurysms were created on the distal carotid arteries of 4 animals. Four of the aneurysms had multi...

We evaluated two speech research paradigms by comparing standardized sentences to ‘free speech’ (both produced by students without interaction partner). Samples of infant(IDS), foreigner(FDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) were acoustically analyzed for F0 and hyperarticulation. No difference for hyperarticulation was found between IDS, FDS and ADS, which is in contrast to natural speech and i...

Functional dependencies (FDs) are integrity constraints widely studied in the context of data profiling. In this work, we explore the automatic discovery of FDs and describe a method for selecting relevant ones regarding workload semantics. The experimental evaluation shows that the selected dependencies exhibit expressive properties compared to the search space, which demonstrates the effectiv...

It is not always possible to avoid inconsistency of a set of constraints in a database, for example in a legacy database where we are given an out of date set of constraints which may have changed due to maintenance. Thus we need some mechanism to reassess the set of constraints in order to recover from this inconsistency. We tackle this problem concentrating on the situation when the constrain...

Armstrong relations satisfy precisely those data dependencies that are implied by a given set of data dependencies. A common perception is that Armstrong relations are useful in the acquisition of data semantics, in particular since errors during the requirements elicitation have the most expensive consequences. We report on some first empirical evidence for this perception regarding the class ...

This paper rst presents some new results on excluded functional dependencies, i.e., FDs which do not hold on a given relation schema. In particular, we show how excluded dependencies relate to Armstrong relations, and we state criteria for deciding whether a set of excluded dependencies characterizes a set of FDs. In the rest of the paper, complexity issues related to the following three proble...

AIM To characterise the prevalence of burnout syndrome in a sample of family doctors (FDs) working in the Portuguese National Health System. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Primary healthcare centres from the 18 continental districts and two archipelagos of Portugal. METHOD The Portuguese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey was sent to 40 randomly selecte...

Objective: hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ablation by radiofrequency (RFA) is a novel technique with a great variety of methods whose efficacy and predictive factors have not been completely studied. Some of the main predictive factors in this type of treatment are analyzed in the present study. Patients and methods: ninety-three patients with hepatocellular carcinoma over cirrhosis, and with n...