Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an efficient alternative for hemodialysis. Removal of waste metabolites and excess water from the blood circulation are the two main tasks done during dialysis. These are done by using a filter; in PD, the naturally semi-permeable peritoneal membrane acts as the filter. Automated PD machines control intelligently the operations to enhance the efficiency a...

D Rapid eye movement sleep is maximal during early life, but its function in the developing brain is unknown. We investigated the role of rapid eyemovement sleep in a canonicalmodel of developmental plasticity in vivo (ocular dominance plasticity in the cat) induced by monocular deprivation. Preventing rapid eye movement sleep after monocular deprivation reduced ocular dominance plasticity and ...

RAPID Engineering Project #4 (Bracken et al., 1997a) summarized past efforts and developed guidelines for contemporaneous PE monitoring. Guidelines for PE study design provide recommendations for selecting the field characteristics to be measured; selecting appropriate instrumentation; developing a sampling strategy; establishing time-activity record-keeping protocols; and developing plans for ...

Rapid eye movement sleep is maximal during early life, but its function in the developing brain is unknown. We investigated the role of rapid eye movement sleep in a canonical model of developmental plasticity in vivo (ocular dominance plasticity in the cat) induced by monocular deprivation. Preventing rapid eye movement sleep after monocular deprivation reduced ocular dominance plasticity and ...

demand for consumption of protein, as a result of improvement in the income and nutrition levels, has a rapid growth in developing countries. broiler industry has a crucial role in providing protein. to design an optimal plan and to use the potential resources, analyzing cost structure of this industry is required. in this study, cost structure and economies of scale of broiler industry were an...

distraction osteogenesis method (do) in bone lengthening and rapid midpalatal expansion have shown the great ability of osteognic tissues for rapid bone formation under distraction force and special protocol with optimum rate of one millimeter per day. periodontal membrane of teeth (pdm) is the extension of periostium in the alveolar socked. orthodontic force distracts pdm fibers in the tension...

ELKI is a uni ed software framework, designed as a tool suitable for evaluation of di erent algorithms on high dimensional realvalued feature-vectors. A special case of high dimensional real-valued feature-vectors are time series data where traditional distance measures like Lp-distances can be applied. However, also a broad range of specialized distance measures like, e.g., dynamic time-warpin...

Classification of given data sets according to a training set is one of the essentials bread and butter tools in machine learning. There are several application scenarios, reaching from the detection of spam and non-spam mails to recognition of malicious behavior, or other forensic use cases. To this end, there are several approaches that can be used to train such classifiers. Often, scientists...