The clinical usefulness of morphine for treatment of chronic pain is limited by development of tolerance. So many authors have proposed the co-administration of other drugs. This study was performed to evaluate the role of gabapentin on analgesic effect of morphine. Four groups of male rats (220-250 g) were examined for time latency using tail flick test: control, morphine (M), gabapentin (GB),...

Abstract Maximum permissible errors (MPEs) are an important measurement system specification and form the basis of periodic verification a system’s performance. However, there is no standard methodology for determining MPEs, so when they not provided, or suitable procedure performed, it unclear how to generate appropriate value with which verify system. Whilst simple approach might be take many...

Micropoluentes emergentes (MPE) são substâncias detectadas no meio ambiente, seja água e solo, que podem alterar, de alguma forma, estes sistemas, além da saúde dos ser humano. Os processos tratamento enquadrados como convencionais, geralmente, ineficientes para remover os contaminantes. Assim, busca-se tecnologias alternativas remoção efetiva esse tratamento. Para isso, realizou-se uma revisão...

abstract from longley, the various equations for determining the runoff to water management are presented by the researchers that are widely used in hydrologic sciences. in this study by using observational data, was evaluated empirical, artificial neural network (ann) and ca-active neuro-fuzzy inference system (canfis) models in estimation of runoff. for this purpose, by using climatic and phy...

The present study evaluated the impact of edible coatings based on whey protein concentrate (WPC) and mango peel extract (MPE) shelf life, physicochemical, microbial properties minimally processed broccoli preserved at 5 ± 1 °C for 28 days. variations in physicochemical fresh-cuts were by determining following parameter changes: weight loss, color, respiration rate, ascorbic acid content (AsA),...

The development of combination therapy is a coherent approach in severe pain treatment. The present study investigated the antinociceptive effect of pregabalin alone and in combination with tramadol in acute pain modeling. Therefore, three groups of male mice received either pregabalin (1 to 400 mg/Kg), tramadol (10 to 80 mg/Kg) or their combination intraperitoneally. Then latency time, maximum...

Lemma 1: Consider the game in which the payoff at time t equals expression (9); the regulator at time t chooses w(t) ∈ Ω ⊂ R, taking as given her successors’ control rule χ̂(z); and the state variables h and y obey equations (4) and (8). Let V (h) equal the value of expression (9) in a MPE (the value function). A MPE control rule χ(h) ≡ χ̂(z) satisfies the (generalized) dynamic programming equati...

A wide number of polymers are being used for various medical applications. In this work, microwave-assisted surface modification of metallocene polyethylene (mPE) was studied. FTIR analysis showed no significant changes in the chemical groups after treatment. Contact angle analysis revealed a decrease in contact angle of the treated samples insinuating increasing hydrophilicity and better bioco...

The inverse relation between mutual information (MI) and Bayesian error is sharpened by deriving finite sequences of upper and lower bounds on MI in terms of the minimum probability of error (MPE) and related Bayesian quantities. The well known Fano upper bound and Feder-Merhav lower bound on equivocation are tightened by including a succession of posterior probabilities starting at the largest...

It was recently shown that the problem of decoding messages transmitted through a noisy channel can be formulated as a belief updating task over a probabilistic network [13]. Moreover, it was observed that iterative application of the (linear time) belief propagation algorithm designed for polytrees [14] outperformed state of the art decoding algorithms, even though the corresponding networks m...