This paper investigates into hybridization between PSO and self-adaptive evolutionary programming techniques for solving economic dispatch (ED) problem with non-smooth cost curves where conventional gradient based methods are in-applicable. The convergence capability of evolutionary programming technique is enhanced with hybridization of self-adaptive evolutionary programming technique with PSO...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if ductus venosus (DV) pulsatility index for veins (PIV) and a-wave measurements can increase the accuracy of first-trimester Down syndrome screening in a high-risk population. METHODS The database of our fetal medicine unit was searched for all cases at increased first-trimester Down syndrome risk. Multivariable logistic regression was used to construct a prediction ...

Understanding the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS) requires the precise identification of dengue virus (DV)-permissive target cells. In a previous study using unfractionated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, we found that monocytes, but not B or T cells, were the principal DV-permissive cells in the absence of DV-immune pooled human sera (PH...

S1 PfCRT cannot be a channel for un-protonated chloroquine CQ S2 Membrane equilibrium equation S3 The expression for the Cellular Accumulation Ratio of chloroquine S4 Chloroquine concentration is equal in the external buffer and inside the erythrocyte S5 CAR expressions in the case of chloroquine-HM binding in linear regime (hypothesis H1) S6 Proof that [CQ]DV,D = [CQ]e in the hypothesis PfCRT ...

Dengue virus (DV) infection is one of the most common mosquito-borne viral diseases in the world. The innate immune system is important for the early detection of virus and for mounting a cascade of defense measures which include the production of type 1 interferon (IFN). Hence, a thorough understanding of the innate immune response during DV infection would be essential for our understanding o...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), the severe manifestation of dengue virus (DV) infection characterized by plasma leakage, is more common in secondary DV infections in previously infected individuals and is associated with high levels of immune activation. To determine the Ag specificity of this immune response, we studied the response to an HLA-B*07-restricted T cell epitope, residues 221-232 of...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence (DV) is highly prevalent in the developing and developed world. Healthcare systems internationally are still not adequately addressing the needs of patients experiencing violence. AIM To explore physicians' attitudes about responding to DV, their perception of the physician's role, and the factors that influence their response. DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative stu...

this paper presents designing an optimal adaptive controller for tracking control of robot manipulators based on particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm. pso algorithm has been employed to optimize parameters of the controller and hence to minimize the integral square of errors (ise) as a performance criteria. in this paper, an improved pso using logic is proposed to increase the convergenc...

The diurnal variation (DV) in galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux is a widely observed phenomenon in neutron monitor data. The background variation considered primarily in this study is due to the balance between the convection of energetic particles away from the Sun and the inward diffusion of energetic particles along magnetic field lines. However, there are also times of enhanced DV following ge...

The Master equation is an infinite dimensional partial differential equation in a state space comprising Euclidean vectors and probability measures. It was introduced by Lasry and Lions for the study of Mean Field Games. We derive this Master Equation from a special Ito formula based on a non-standard differential calculus for functions of probability measures. If time permits, we shall also de...