BACKGROUND Normal values for regional left ventricular wall motion, although documented in adults, have not been reported in healthy newborns. METHODS This study prospectively evaluated global and segmental systolic and diastolic cardiac function by color kinesis in clinically asymptomatic healthy newborns. RESULTS Eighty-eight asymptomatic infants who were less than 48 hours old were studi...

In this paper, the fractional partial differential equations are defined by modified Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. With the help of fractional derivative and fractional complex transform, these equations can be converted into the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. By using solitay wave ansatz method, we find exact analytical solutions of the space-time fractional Zakharov Kuz...

The aims of the present paper were to ascertain whether the heat-induced ischemia and oxidative damage to the hypothalamus and lethality in mice could be ameliorated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy. When normobaric air-treated mice underwent heat treatment, the fractional survival and core temperature at 4 hours after heat stress were found to be 0 of 12 and 34 degrees C +/- 0.3 degrees C, respect...

We study the following problem: given a real number k and an integer d, what is the smallest ε such that any fractional (k+ε)-precoloring of vertices at pairwise distances at least d of a fractionally k-colorable graph can be extended to a fractional (k+ ε)coloring of the whole graph? The exact values of ε were known for k ∈ {2} ∪ [3,∞) and any d. We determine the exact values of ε for k ∈ (2, ...

This paper presents the application of a direct Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Controller (FOMRAC) to an Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR). A direct FOMRAC is a direct Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), whose controller parameters are adjusted using fractional order differential equations. Four realizations of the FOMRAC were designed in this work, each one considering differen...

In this paper, we have introduced a fractional-ordered predator-prey population model which has been successfully solved with the help of two powerful analytical methods, namely, Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) and Variational Iteration Method (VIM). The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. Using initial values, we have derived the explicit solutions of predator-prey pop...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the fractional anisotropy (FA) values of the multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques and normal-appearing cervical spinal cord (NASC) by diffusion tensor MRI imaging (DTI). METHOD Forty-one patients with relapsing-remising MS and 37 controls were evaluated. All MRI exams were performed using a conventional protocol, as well as diffusion tensor MR imaging. Regions of interest wer...

We study the following problem: given a real number k and integer d, what is the smallest ε such that any fractional (k+ε)-precoloring of vertices at pairwise distances at least d of a fractionally k-colorable graph can be extended to a fractional (k + ε)coloring of the whole graph? The exact values of ε were known for k ∈ {2} ∪ [3,∞) and any d. We determine the exact values of ε for k ∈ (2, 3)...

In this paper we describe the range of values that can be taken by the fractional weak discrepancy of a poset and characterize semiorders in terms of these values. In [6], we defined the fractional weak discrepancy wdF (P ) of a poset P = (V,≺) to be the minimum nonnegative k for which there exists a function f : V → R satisfying (1) if a ≺ b then f(a) + 1 ≤ f(b) and (2) if a ‖ b then |f(a) − f...