Bacterial and fungal pathogens in recirculating aquaculture egg incubation systems can cause elevated mortality decreased production. Peracetic acid (PAA) is a relatively low-cost, safe, effective disinfectant; however, its toxicity to early life stages of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has not been assessed. The 24-h LC50 value PAA was determined for three salmon: eyed eggs, fry (~0.17 g), ...

Background: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery (CABG) remains the most performed cardiac worldwide. Fear of movement (Kinesiophobia) after is associated with physical activity and non-adherence to rehabilitation. It observed that functional capacity significantly reduced surgery. Long term Kinesiophobia leads avoidance behaviours hampers levels deconditioning. The aim study was find out Corre...

Hydration is recommended in order to decrease the overload on the cardiovascular system when healthy individuals exercise, mainly in the heat. To date, no criteria have been established for hydration for hypertensive (HY) individuals during exercise in a hot environment. Eight male HY volunteers without another medical problem and 8 normal (NO) subjects (46 +/- 3 and 48 +/- 1 years; 78.8 +/- 2....

Effects of the menstrual cycle on heat loss and heat production (M) and core and skin temperature responses to cold were studied in six unacclimatized female nonsmokers (18-29 yr of age). Each woman, resting supine, was exposed to a cold transient (ambient temperature = mean radiant temperature = 20 to -5 degrees C at -0.32 degrees C/min, relative humidity = 50 +/- 2%, wind speed = 1 m/s) in th...

This work presents the use of local fuzzy prototypes as a new idea to obtain accurate local semantics-based Takagi–Sugeno–Kang ~TSK! rules. This allow us to start from prototypes considering the interaction between input and output variables and taking into account the fuzzy nature of the TSK rules. To do so, a two-stage evolutionary algorithm based on MOGUL ~a methodology to obtain Genetic Fuz...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the oral carbohydrate solution administered preoperatively on thermoregulation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 40 female patients under general anesthesia. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: Group CONT (stopped oral implementation 8 h before the operation) and Group CHO (800ml oral carbohydrate fluid 8 h before the operation and 400ml ora...

TYPE-2 fuzzy sets (T2 FSs), originally introduced by Zadeh [3], provide additional design degrees of freedom in Mamdani and TSK fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), which can be very useful when such systems are used in situations where lots of uncertainties are present [4]. The implementation of this type-2 FLS involves the operations of fuzzification, inference,and output processing. We focus on ―outp...

This paper presents a tool condition monitoring approach using Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy logic incorporating a subtractive clustering method. The experimental results show its effectiveness and satisfactory comparisons with several other artificial intelligence methods.

The N-terminal fragment (G1-G2) of cartilage proteoglycan protein core contains two globular domains, binding region (G1) and a second globular domain (G2), G1-G2 was isolated after mild trypsin digestion of purified proteoglycan aggregates followed by chromatography first on Sepharose CL-2B under associative conditions and then on a TSK-4000 column in 4 M-guanidinium chloride. It migrated as a...

This paper presents a novel personal verification system with thermal facial patterns using fuzzy neural network techniques. In contrast to traditional biometrics, the use of thermal technology removes two concerns in existing verification systems; they are: 1) the hygiene issue for verification systems that require physical contact (e.g., fingerprints) and, 2) variation in ambient illumination...