Background: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease with relatively high prevalence globally and one of the leading causes disability in elderly population. Dextrose prolotherapy (DPT) has been proven effective improving functional outcomes knee osteoarthritis. The effect hypertonic dextrose on cartilage biomarkers not evaluated. Purpose: To evaluate association between biomar...

Counteracting geometrical attacks remains one of the most challenging problems in robust watermarking. In this paper, we resist rotation, scaling, and translation (RST) by constructing a kind of deformable pyramid transform (DPT) that is shift-invariant, steerable, and scalable. The DPT is extended from a closed-form polar-separable steerable pyramid transform (SPT). The radial component of the...

The triphenyltin (TPT)-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas chlororaphis CNR15 produces extracellular yellow substances to degrade TPT. Three substances (F-I, F-IIa, and F-IIb) were purified, and their structural and catalytic properties were characterized. The primary structure of F-I was established using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance techniques; the structure was identical to that of...

To explore the potential of cattle to produce both milk and beef, the genetic aspects of beef production among Holstein‐Friesian bulls pedigree selected for milk were studied. The data included growth records of 504 bulls (DPT) by 120 sires (SPT) pedigree selected for progeny testing by American Breeders Service, 1964 to 1971. DPT bulls with proofs had an average predicted difference for milk (...

The effect of morphology on singlet fission (SF) efficiency was investigated by using a combination of high-level electronic structure methods and a simple three-state kinetic model. The calculations reproduce the observed differences in SF efficiency in different polymorphs of 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran (DPBF) and 1,6-diphenyl1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), as well as make predictions about 5,12dipheny...

The two-dimensional kinetic Ising model, when exposed to an oscillating applied magnetic field, has been shown to exhibit a nonequilibrium, second-order dynamic phase transition (DPT), whose order parameter Q is the period-averaged magnetization. It has been established that this DPT falls in the same universality class as the equilibrium phase transition in the two-dimensional Ising model in z...

Recent work in cognitive modelling has found that most of the data been cited as evidence for dual-process theory (DPT) reasoning is best explained by non-linear, “monotonic” one-process models. In this paper, I consider an important caveat research: it uses models are committed to unrealistic assumptions about how effectively task conditions can isolate Type-1 and Type-2 reasoning. To avoid ca...

To cite: Dhaliwal G. BMJ Qual Saf 2017;26:87–89. Dual process theory (DPT) and the intertwined concepts of heuristics and biases, popularised by Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow, are widely discussed models for analysing decision-making processes inside and outside medicine. The basic premise of DPT is that the brain has a fast, intuitive, but occasionally error-prone system (system 1) an...

Background: auditory temporal processing. Aim: to determine the performance profile of normal hearing children in temporal sequence and order detection and identification tasks in free-field. Method: forty three children with ages raging from 7 to 11 years and 5 months were evaluated in two behavioral tests frequency patterns test (FPT) and duration patterns test (DPT) child's version by Audite...