BACKGROUND Exercise is well established to lead to exercise-induced hypercoagulability, as demonstrated by kinetic coagulation markers. It remains unclear as to whether exercise-induces changes lead in clot development and increased polymerisation. Fractal dimension (df) has been shown to act as a marker of clot microstructure and mechanical properties, and may provide a more meaningful method ...

In this paper, we analyze the error performance of decode and forward (DF) and amplify and forward (AF) multi-way relay networks (MWRN). We consider a MWRN with pair-wise data exchange protocol using binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation in both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh fading channels. We quantify the possible error events in an L-user DF or AF MWRN and derive ac...

Long-living Ames dwarf (df/df) mice are homozygous for a mutation of the Prop1(df) gene. As a result, mice are deficient in growth hormone (GH), prolactin (PRL) and thyrotropin (TSH). In spite of the hormonal deficiencies, df/df mice live significantly longer and healthier lives compared to their wild type siblings. We studied the effects of calorie restriction (CR) on the expression of insulin...

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive reducedrank decision feedback (DF) receiver strategy based on the minimization symbol-error-rate (MSER) criterion for largescale multiple-antenna systems. In this strategy, a reduced-rank method for general parameter estimation using an adaptive joint and iterative preprocessing, decimation and filtering (JPDF) scheme is proposed for DF receive process...

Dengue fever (DF) is an important health issue in Colombia, but detailed information on economic costs to the healthcare system is lacking. Using information from official databases (2010-2012) and a face-to-face survey of 1,483 households with DF and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) patients, we estimated the average cost per case. In 2010, the mean direct medical costs to the healthcare system ...

In the distributed mutual exclusion problem, a set of processes must coordinate their actions so that at any time at most one process may be within its critical section. Information structure distributed mutual exclusion algorithms (ISDME) are instances of a general algorithm which can represent several non-token-based algorithms. This paper introduces a new deadlock-free ISDME algorithm (DF-IS...

Delayed fluorescence (DF) from photosystem II (PSII) of plants can be potentially used as a biosensor for the detection of plant physiological status and environmental changes. It has been analyzed mainly in the time domain. Frequency-domain analysis through Fourier transform allows viewing a signal from another angle, but the usefulness of DF spectra has not been well studied. In this work, ex...

In this work we propose adaptive decision feedback (DF) multiuser detectors (MUDs) for DS-CDMA systems using recurrent neural networks (RNN). A DF CDMA receiver structure is presented with dynamically driven RNNs in the feedforward section and finite impulse response (FIR) linear filters in the feedback section for performing interference cancellation. A stochastic gradient (SG) algorithm is de...

Trabalho desenvolvido como parte de tese de doutorado no laboratório de Neurociências e Comportamento, Ciências Fisiológicas, Departamento de Biologia Animal da Universidade de Brasília Brasília (DF) Brasil. 1 Doutoranda do Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade de Brasília UnB Brasília (DF) Brasil. 2 Professor Adjunto da UnB Brasília (DF) Brasil; Doutor em Neurociências pela University ...

introduction: neuropathic pain can be very difficult to treat and it is one of the important medical challenging about pain treatments. muscimol as a new agonist of gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type a (gaba a ) have been introduced for pain management. thus, the present study was performed to evaluate the pain alleviating effect of intrathecal injection of different doses of muscimol as gab...