In recent years some attempts have been done to relate the RBF with wavelets [1,2] in handling high dimensional multiscale problems. To the author’s knowledge, however, the orthonormal and bi-orthogonal RBF wavelets are still missing in the literature. By using the nonsingular general solution and singular fundamental solution of differential operator [3], recently the present author made some ...

It is not known whether renal blood flow (RBF) is still autoregulated when the kidney is exposed to large transient blood pressure (BP) fluctuations such as those occurring spontaneously in conscious sinoaortic baroreceptor-denervated (SAD) rats. In this study, BP and RBF were simultaneously recorded in 8 SAD rats (2 weeks before study) and 8 baroreceptor-intact rats during approximately 3 hour...

These experiments examined whether the conscious sinoaortic baroreceptor-denervated (SAD) rat, owing to its high spontaneous arterial pressure (AP) variability, might represent a model for renal blood flow (RBF) autoregulation studies. In eight SAD and six baroreceptor-intact rats, AP and RBF were recorded (1-h periods) before and after furosemide (10 mg/kg followed by 10 mg. kg(-1). h(-1) iv) ...

This paper has made some significant advances in the boundary-only and domain-type RBF techniques. The proposed boundary knot method (BKM) is different from the standard boundary element method in a number of important aspects. Namely, it is truly meshless, exponential convergence, integration-free (of course, no singular integration), boundary-only for general problems, and leads to symmetric ...

The concept of adaptive shape parameters (ASP) has been presented for solution of incompressible Navier Strokes equations using mesh-free local Radial Basis Functions (RBF). The aim is to avoid ill-conditioning of coefficient matrices of RBF weights and inaccuracies in RBF interpolation resulting from non-optimized shape of basis functions for the cases where data points (or nodes) are not dist...

This paper presents a structure-adaptive hybrid RBF-BP (SAHRBF-BP) classifier with an optimized learning strategy. SAHRBF-BP is composed of a structure-adaptive RBF network and a BP network of cascade, where the number of RBF hidden nodes is adjusted adaptively according to the distribution of sample space, the adaptive RBF network is used for nonlinear kernel mapping and the BP network is used...

Previous studies have suggested a link between renal metabolism and local kidney hemodynamics to prevent potential hypoxic injury of particularly vulnerable nephron segments, such as the outer medullary region. The present study used three different inspiratory oxygen concentrations to modify renal metabolic state in the conscious rat (hypoxia 10% O2, normoxia 20% 02, and hyperoxia 100% 02). Re...

In this review we bring together some of our recent work from the angle of the diversified RBF topologies, including three different topologies; (i) the RBF network with tunable nodes; (ii) the Box-Cox output transformation based RBF network (Box-Cox RBF); and (iii) the RBF network with boundary value constraints (BVC-RBF). We show that the modified topologies have some advantages over the conv...