OBJECTIVE The pelvic floor is an integrated structure; dysfunctions may lead to a wide range of symptoms, involving voiding, defecation and sexual functioning (SF). Functional symptoms such as constipation and lower abdominal pain are often caused by pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), and they highly impact the quality of life. Multiple specialists are responsible for a specific part of the pelvic...

Viruses isolated from fish with viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS), infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN), spring viraemia of carp (SVC), swim-bladder inflammation (SBI) and pike fry disease (PFD) have been grown to high titre in fathead minnow cells. While our preparations of the IHN, SVC, SBI and PFD viruses showed typical rhabdovirus morphology with bullet-shaped particles and distinct ...

Head direction (HD) cells respond when an animal faces a particular direction in the environment and form the basis for the animal's perceived directional heading. When an animal moves through its environment, accurate updating of the HD signal is required to reflect the current heading, but the cells still maintain a representation of HD even when the animal is motionless. This finding suggest...

Cartesian products of graphs and hypergraphs have been studied since the 1960s. For (un)directed hypergraphs, unique prime factor decomposition (PFD) results with respect to the Cartesian product are known. However, there is still a lack of algorithms, that compute the PFD of directed hypergraphs with respect to the Cartesian product. In this contribution, we focus on the algorithmic aspects fo...

Cartesian products of graphs and hypergraphs have been studied since the 1960s. For (un)directed hypergraphs, unique prime factor decomposition (PFD) results with respect to the Cartesian product are known. However, there is still a lack of algorithms, that compute the PFD of directed hypergraphs with respect to the Cartesian product. In this contribution, we focus on the algorithmic aspects fo...

Let R be a finite dimensional k-algebra over an algebraically closed field k and modR be the category of all finitely generated left R-modules. For a given full subcategory X of modR, we denote by pfdX the projective finitistic dimension of X . That is, pfdX := sup {pdX : X ∈ X and pdX < ∞}. It was conjectured by H. Bass in the 60’s that the projective finitistic dimension pfd (R) := pfd (modR)...

Since 1976, the authors administered the test meal PFD to patients mainly with pancreatic diseases in order to know the changes in the exocrine function of the remaining part of the pancreas. In the present study, investigation was made on the usefulness of PFD in the cases undergoing surgery for pancreatic and biliary cancers, according to the sites of cancers. Urinary P ABA in 6-hour urine· s...

_______________________________________________________________________________ Abstract— This paper proposes a rigorous stability criterion for the 2 order digital phase locked loop (DPLL), with a charge pump phase frequency detector (CP-PFD) component. The Stability boundary is determined using piecewise linear methods to model the non-linear nature of the CP-PFD component block. It calculate...

Multireference partial field decomposition (PFD) can be used to generate coherent holograms for near-field acoustical holography measurements. PFD is most successful when the reference array completely senses all independent subsources, but meeting this requirement is not straightforward when the number of subsources and their locations are ambiguous (such as in aeroacoustic sources). A figure ...