The purpose of this study was to qualitatively evaluate patients understanding and interpretation of the wording used in test items of the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK). The TSK was developed to measure fear of movement in patients suffering from low back pain. The TSK is being increasingly used for other pain conditions. Patients with sub-acute neck pain experience problems while completi...

Anthropogenic noise has a negative impact on a variety of animals. However, many bat species roost in places with high levels of anthropogenic noise. Here, we tested the hypothesis that torpid bats are insensitive to anthropogenic noise. In a laboratory experiment, we recorded skin temperature (Tsk) of bats roosting individually that were subjected to playbacks of different types of noise. We f...

OBJECTIVES Nitric oxide (*NO) is an important physiological signalling molecule and a potent vasodilator. We have previously demonstrated abnormal *NO metabolism in the plasma of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma), a disease that features vascular dysfunction as well as collagen overproduction and fibrosis. The aim of the present study was to examine nitric oxide synthase (NOS)...

in this paper, a theorem is derived for the existence of a common quadratic Lyapunov function for stability analysis of TSK fuzzy model. This paper proposed a new method based on stochastic stability. In this paper we study the stochastic stability properties of certain TSK Fuzzy system has been studied.

This paper presents an approach to formally model Takagi–Sugeno– Kang (TSK) fuzzy systems without the use of any external components. In order to keep the model continuity, the formal simulation model for a TSK fuzzy system is comprised of three types of reusable sub-models involving primitive operations. Thus, the model can be executed even on limited computational platforms, such as embedded ...

Recent work suggests an influence of the mean body skin (Tsk) and deep body temperatures (Tb) on coldinduced vasodilatation (CIVD). For example, minimum finger temperature (Tfi,min)was lower, and the maximum finger temperature (Tfi,max) was greater during CIVD when Tb was elevated, and the onset time of the CIVD response was reduced at higher Tsk. Question remain, though, about the influence of...

We propose Tree Sequence Kernel (TSK), which implicitly exhausts the structure features of a sequence of subtrees embedded in the phrasal parse tree. By incorporating the capability of sequence kernel, TSK enriches tree kernel with tree sequence features so that it may provide additional useful patterns for machine learning applications. Two approaches of penalizing the substructures are propos...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) markedly increases heat strain, reduces work performance, and increases the incidence of heat casualties. Microclimate cooling (MCC) technologies have been successfully used to alleviate this heat strain in mounted soldiers, but cooling limitations, power and weight restrictions do not currently make this technology applicable to dismounted soldiers. This com...

This work is focused on creating fuzzy granular classification models based on general type-2 fuzzy logic systems when consequents are represented by interval type-2 TSK linear functions. Due to the complexity of general type-2 TSK fuzzy logic systems, a hybrid learning approach is proposed, where the principle of justifiable granularity is heuristically used to define an amount of uncertainty ...

The Takagi Sugeno Kang (TSK) fuzzy approach is popular since its output either a constant or function. Parameter identification and structure are the two key requirements for building TSK system. input utilized in can have an impact on number of rules produced such way that employing more data dimensions typically results rules, which causes rule complexity. This issue be solved by dimension re...