Anticonvulsant drugs were given to 70 patients suffering from lancinating pains of various clinical aetiologies. Serum drug estimations were used to ensure that an effective dose level was achieved. In about 66% of the cases, treatment produced some diminution in the intensity and/or frequency of the "flashes" of pain. The neurophysiological and pharmacological rationales are briefly explained....

BACKGROUND Lead (Pb) is a toxic substance with well-known, multiple, long-term, adverse health outcomes. Shooting guns at firing ranges is an occupational necessity for security personnel, police officers, members of the military, and increasingly a recreational activity by the public. In the United States alone, an estimated 16,000-18,000 firing ranges exist. Discharge of Pb dust and gases is ...

entered the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., and killed 12 people before being shot himself by police. Reports on the shooter suggested he may have been delusional and had a history of several past angry outbursts that came to the attention of law enforcement (Bothelo & Sterling, 2013). Briefly, speculation arose that Alexis may have played military-themed shooter games and that these games may h...

Global illumination research aiming at the photo-realistic image synthesis pushes forward research in computer graphics as a whole. The computation of visually plausible images is time-consuming and far from being realtime at present. A significant part of computation in global illumination algorithms involves repetitive computing of visibility queries. In the thesis, we describe our results in...

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh latihan shooting menggunakan gawang kecil terhadap peningkatan ketepatan pada siswa SSB Indrajaya Jatinagara Kabupaten Ciamis. Sesuai dengan tujuan penelitian di atas, maka penulis metode eksperimen “Pre Test Post Design”. Populasi dan sampel adalah usia 14-16 tahun Ciamis yang berjumlah 25 orang serta sekaligus dijadikan sebagai...

Empirical results are presented concerning data fusion performed over several combinations of EEG/ECG channel readings of sport shooting athletes. Our purpose in applying different data fusion approaches was that of finding a satisfactory set of features, such that would allow us to build adequate classifiers on the data. The resulting data sets were used for building SOMs (Self-Organising Maps...

In this paper, numerical solution of two points 2 order nonlinear boundary-value problems was considered. The numerical solution was reviewed with nonlinear shooting method, finite-difference method and fourth order compact method. The results were compared to check the accuracy of numerical schemes with exact solution. It was found that the nonlinear shooting method is more accurate than finit...

A steel plate material Hardox can be used also as a core design material for the production of ballistic barriers or traps at the shooting ranges for small arms. The article deals with the results of experiments with shooting weapon systems of a high ballistic performance and with Finite Element Method simulation of the projectile penetration upon the steel plate using the software Ansys Autody...

This paper deals with optimal control problems for systems that are affine in one part of the control variables and nonlinear in the rest of the control variables. We have finitely many equality and inequality constraints on the initial and final states. First we obtain second order necessary and sufficient conditions for weak optimality. Afterwards, we propose a shooting algorithm, and we show...

The authors have applied reinforcement learning methods to real robot tasks in several aspects. We selected a skill of soccer as a task for a vision-based mobile robot. In this paper, we explain two of our method; (1)learning a shooting behavior, and (2)learning a shooting with avoiding an opponent. These behaviors were obtained by a robot in simulation and tested in a real environment in RoboC...