Background: Acupuncture is an indispensable part of traditional Chinese medicine for relief of pain. The purpose of this study was the immediate & latent of low power LASER Ga-Al-As irradiation applied to acupuncture points on experimental pain threshold. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on seventy adult women ranging from 20 to 40 years old assigned randomly into two groups...

The significant penetration rate of wind turbines in power systems made some challenges in the operation of the systems such as large-scale power fluctuations induced by wind farms. Gas-fired plants with fast starting ability and high ramping can better handle natural uncertainties of wind power compared to other traditional plants. Therefore, the integration of electrical and natural gas syste...

This paper focuses on the expressive power of disjunctive and normal logic programs under the stable model semantics over finite, infinite, or arbitrary structures. A translation from disjunctive logic programs into normal logic programs is proposed and then proved to be sound over infinite structures. The equivalence of expressive power of two kinds of logic programs over arbitrary structures ...

The problem of determining sample size for testing an upper percentile of a lognormal distribution based on samples with multiple detection limits is considered. Two tests, the signed likelihood ratio test and another test based on a pivotal statistic, are outlined. These tests are very satisfactory in controlling type I error rates and comparable in terms of powers. Procedures and R codes for ...

2 • • • , o q r L 1 I fFq C_ Fq, are finite fields, a E Fq, , and the conjugates a, aq , aq , of a form a basis for Fq, as a vector space over Fq, then this is called a normal basis. We call a a normal element (of Fq. over Fq). Normal bases are useful for implementing fast ari thmetic in Fq, , in par t icular exponentlation. Of special interest is q = 2 and n reasonably large; as an example, th...

This papa presaits some advances on the development of pembation methods for the annlysis of inter-area oscillations in complex power systems. A nonlinear model of the power system that includes the representation of second-order effects is proposed. Based on this representntion, the normal forms of vector fields are used to analyse non-linear modal inkraction under stressed operating condition...

Recent years witness a growing interest in nonstandard epistemic logics of “knowing whether”, “knowing what”, “knowing how”, and so on. These logics are usually not normal, i.e., the standard axioms and reasoning rules for modal logic may be invalid. In this paper, we show that the conditional “knowing value” logic proposed by Wang and Fan [12] can be viewed as a disguised normal modal logic by...