Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is characterized by abdominal pain and changed bowel habits. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been used for treatment of chronic pain syndromes. Animal studies have shown SCS to reduce the reaction to colonic balloon distension, known to be increased in IBS patients. To elucidate the potential for SCS as treatment for IBS, a pilot study was performed. Ten IBS pat...

Schwann cell (SC) transplantation is an attractive strategy for spinal cord injury (SCI). However, the efficacy of SC transplantation has been limited by the poor migratory ability of SCs in the astrocyte-rich central nervous system (CNS) environment and the inability to intermingle with the host astrocyte. In this study, we first magnetofected SCs by polysialyltransferase-functionalized superp...

Many watershed models employ the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) approach for runoff simulation based on soil and land use information. These implicitly assume that is generated by Hortonian process and; therefore, cannot correctly account effects of topography, variable source area (VSA) and/or moisture distribution in a watershed. This paper presents new distributed CN-VSA met...

In this study test-day records of milk (kg), fat (g), and protein (g) yields, somatic cell score (SCS, cells/ML) collected by Animal Breeding Center of Iran during 2007 and 2009 were used to estimate genetic parameters using random regression model. Models with different order of Legendre polynomials were compared using Bayesian information criterion (BIC).For milk, fat yield and SCS genetic an...

Subclinical seizures (SCS) have rarely been considered in the diagnosis and therapy of epilepsy and have not been systematically analyzed in studies on seizure prediction. Here, we investigate whether predictions of subclinical seizures are feasible and how their occurrence may affect the performance of prediction algorithms. Using the European database of long-term recordings of surface and in...

HEC HMS merupakan salah satu aplikasi pemodelan yang dapat digunakan untuk memodelkan nilai limpasan harian maupun bulanan berdasarkan karakteristik DAS. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah 1) Mengkaji fisik DAS Serang direpresentasikan oleh curve number (CN) 2) aliran berupa debit puncak, volume outflow, dan waktu puncak dari hidrograf banjir terukur dengan hasil menggunakan HEC-HMS. Nilai CN ditentu...

Introduction Placement of a bougie for sleeve sizing during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is recommended. We compared this standard with a suction calibration system (SCS) that performs all functions with one insertion, and measured each step’s duration. Methods Primary LSG was performed using a bougie and SCS in alternating order. Number of tube movements to achieve optimal placement, ...

Neuregulins play crucial roles in early development of Schwann cells (SCs), but their roles in the activities of SCs during denervation and reinnervation of muscle are less clear. In the present study, the Tet-On system has been used in transgenic mice to enable inducible expression of a mutant, constitutively active neuregulin receptor (ErbB2) in SCs. This induction simulates neuregulin signal...

This article proposes a closed-loop (CL) high-starting torque (HST) scalar control scheme (SCS) for induction motors (IM). It endows the recently proposed HST-SCS with high-output capability beyond starting after using an outer speed loop feeding inner current adaptive controllers. Presenting cascade normalized passivity-based controller (N-APBC) nonlinear systems encompassing IM allows obtaini...