Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hemorrhagic shock often occur concomitantly due to multiple injuries. Gastrointestinal dysfunction occurs frequently in patients with TBI. However, whether alterations in the gastrointestinal system are involved in modulating neuronal damage and recovery after TBI is largely neglected. Ghrelin is a "gut-brain" hormone with multiple functions including antiinflam...

Uf(a,ß,Y,x): Universal-logic-module for ternary functions, based upon Reed-Muller expansion, i.e. aodulo-algebra expansion Uh(c,n,x): basic Universal-logic-module for ternary function«, based upon modulo-algebra expansion uh(5,n,x) t ® n x F]: column vector whose entries are the 3 values of f(x), arranged in Increasing order of y, n-1 yI x^ 1-0 LgCK)]: coefficient column vector based upon modul...

Unmanned helicopters (UH) can avoid radar detection by flying at ultra-low altitudes; thus, they have been widely used in the battlefield. The flight safety of UH is seriously affected moving obstacles such as flocks birds low airspace. Therefore, an algorithm that plan a safe path to urgently needed. Due strong randomness movement bird flocks, existing planning algorithms are incompetent for t...

Antecedentes: El clima laboral (CL) afecta al desempeño de los prestadores de servicios e impacta sobre la atención que se brinda a los usuarios. Esto es importante en enfermedades que afectan a la calidad de vida, como la enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) tratada con hemodiálisis. En México, la demanda de atención de casos con ERC es creciente y la oferta de servicios de hemodiálisis es limitada....

The long-term effectiveness of the mainly chemotherapy-based control strategy of the World Bank Loan Project (WBLP) for schistosomiasis control in Chinese hilly and mountainous regions was evaluated with a view to determine the best road forward. Based on the national database of schistosomiasis prevalence for the periods of 1999-2001 and 2007-2008 in the People's Republic of China, a Bayesian ...

Background/aims: To determine the sensitivity and the specificity of the GDx in the detection of (1) advanced glaucoma, (2) early glaucoma, and (3) nerve fibre bundle defects (NFBD). Methods: Group A comprised 20 eyes with reproducible glaucomatous visual field defects confirmed by octopus perimetry, group B consisted of 10 eyes with normal visual fields but either glaucomatous NFBD or deterior...

The existence, uniqueness, and various forms of Ulam–Hyers (UH)-type stability results for nonlocal pantograph equations are developed extended in this study within the frame novel psi-piecewise Caputo fractional derivatives, which generalize piecewise operators recently presented literature. required proven using Banach’s contraction mapping Krasnoselskii’s fixed-point theorem. Additionally, p...

Abstract The major goal of this work is investigating sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness solutions implicit impulsive coupled system ? -Hilfer fractional differential equations (FDEs) with instantaneous impulses terminal conditions. First, we derive equivalent integral proposed system. Next, by employing some standard fixed point theorems such as Leray–Schauder alternative B...

We show that if cov(M) = κ, where κ is a regular cardinal such that ∀λ < κ(2 ≤ κ), then for every unbounded directed family H of size κ there is an ultrafilter UH such that the relativized Mathias forcing M(UH) preserves the unboundedness of H. This improves a result of M. Canjar (see [4, Theorem 10]). We discuss two instances of generic ultrafilters for which the relativized Mathias forcing pr...

A high power millimeter (mm) wave, in the presence of a magnetic wiggler, produces a large longitudinal ponderomotive force that can accelerate electrons. When a plasma of density n ~ ncr, where ncr is critical density, is introduced in the interaction region, the ponderomotive force resonantly drives a plasma wave that accelerates electrons to higher energies. However, propagation of the mm wa...