The lack of consistence and convergence is often considered as a major drawback of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Here, we analysis two errors introduced by typical conservative SPH approximations of the gradient of a scalar field: one (smoothing error) is due to smoothing of the gradient by an integration associated with a kernel function; the other (integration error) is due to approx...

PURPOSE A medical school's mission statement (MS) is an expression of its vision and a reflection of the broader social environment in which it is embedded. The authors examine how the institutional identity of U.S. medical education is projected through the MSs of all U.S. MD-granting medical schools. In addition, the authors examine the extent to which differences between subsets of schools (...

AIM To investigate the cytotoxicity of a modified salt solution (MSS) and evaluate the antimicrobial properties of MSS on in vitro biofilm models. METHODOLOGY In a metabolic assay, fibroblasts derived from periodontal ligaments (PDL) of human extracted teeth were cultured and challenged with MSS or controls. Then, in active attachment biofilm models, the efficacy of MSS in the presence of den...

Given an unsatisfiable set of constraints F, a maximal satisfiable subset (MSS) is C ⊆ F such that satisfiable. Over the past two decades, steady improvement in runtime performance algorithms for finding MSS has led to increased adoption MSS-based techniques wide variety domains. Motivated by progress MSS, decade witnessed surge interest design algorithmic enumerate all MSSes, which subsequentl...

No other department influences the workload of a hospital more than the Department of Surgery and in particular, the activities in the operating room. These activities are governed by the master surgical schedule (MSS), which states which patient types receive surgery on which day. In this paper we describe an analytical approach to project the workload for downstream departments based on this ...

Survival signature technology has recently attracted increasing attention for its merits on quantifying reliability of systems with multiple types components. In order to implement evaluation multi-state system (MSS), computing methods survival are studied analysis several different in this paper. For an MSS consisting components, can be developed based the state definition system. binary-state...

The Message Scheduled System (MSS) is a composable real-time architecture that allows the extension of systems at runtime without compromising timing guarantees. In this paper, we introduce the MSS architecture and discuss its guarantees as well as the way of proving the holding of these guarantees for any system that follows the MSS architecture.

Over a three-year period, the authors prospectively implemented a protocol for management of musculoskeletal sepsis (MSS) in HIV carriers in Yaounde, Cameroon. The diagnosis of MSS was based on conventional criteria. HIV carriage was screened by an ELISA test and confirmed with the Western Blot technique. The immune status was based on CD4 lymphocyte count by flow cytometry; patients were class...

Understanding user preferences for interacting with information systems (IS) is particularly important in the field of management support systems (MSS), where strong idiosyncrasies must be considered. As user-interface software components are highly visible to managers, this article examines which components make mobile MSS attractive. We consider both “consumer-” and “analyst-type” managers an...

To improve our understanding of the combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) method in general, it is important to study how the dynamics of the TMS-modulated brain activity differs from the dynamics of spontaneous activity. In this paper, we introduce two quantitative measures based on EEG data, called mean state shift (MSS) and state variance (SV), for...