OBJECTIVE To study agreement between radial and femoral arterial pressure measurements in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) surgery to determine whether arterial cannulation sites are interchangeable. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective observational study of 25 patients undergoing OLTx surgery. METHODS Radial and femoral arteries were cannulated with standardised arterial li...

During recent decades, recognizing letters was a considerable discussion for artificial intelligence researchers and recognize letters due to the variety of languages and different approaches have many challenges. The Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are framed based on particular application such as recognition pattern and data classification through learning process is configured. So, it is ...

Neural network forecasting models have been widely used in the analyses of financial time series during the last decade. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining a variety of univariate and multivariate, linear, nonlinear Economics empirical modes and neural network. In this paper, we construct an M-estimator based RBF (MRBF) neural network with growing and pruning te...

The aim of this study was to compare two surgery methods including radial shortening and radial shortening combined with vascularized bone graft for treatment of stage II or IIIa of Kienböck's disease. It is a randomized, controlled clinical trial, which was carried out in 2011-2013. Twenty-four patients were assigned equally to radial shortening group (A) or radial shortening combined with vas...

By employing the equations of mean-square vorticity (enstrophy) fluctuations in strong shear flows, we demonstrate that unlike energy production of turbulent vorticity in non-rotating shear flows, the turbulent vorticity of weak convection in Keplerian disks cannot gain energy from vortex stretching/tilting by background shear unless the associated Reynolds stresses are negative. This is becaus...

The impact of the finite-size effects on vacuum free energy density full QCD with ${N}_{f}$ massless flavors in presence a homogeneous (anti-)self-dual Abelian background gluon field is studied. zero-temperature four-dimensional spherical domain computed as function strength $B$ and radius $R$. calculation performed one-loop approximation improved by accounting for mixing quark quasizero modes ...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous measurement of ascending aorta and radial artery pressure shows that mean and diastolic pressures (DP) are in close agreement in normotensive adults, while systolic pressures (SP) are not. However, in the aortic pressure wave, a second systolic peak appears with increasing age and increases to represent the SP by age 32 yr, while in the radial artery, a second systolic d...

Rosenfeld's perturbative method [J. Chem. Phys. 98, 8126 (1993)]] for constructing the Helmholtz energy functional of classical systems is applied to studying inhomogeneous Lennard-Jones fluids, in which the key input-the bulk direct correlation function-is obtained from the first-order mean-spherical approximation (FMSA) [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 4140 (2003)]]. Preserving its high fidelity at the b...