Consultant-Guided Search (CGS) is a recent metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, which has been successfully applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In experiments without local search, it has been able to outperform some of the best Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms. However, local search is an important part of any ACO algorithm and a comparison without local ...

7 [1] The origins of positive cloud-to-ground (+CG) 8 lightning in the stratiform region of a leading-line, 9 trailing-stratiform mesoscale convective system (MCS) are 10 investigated. Platforms include radars, NLDN data, and a 11 VHF 3-D lightning mapping system. This study examines a 12 small asymmetric MCS that occurred near the Colorado13 Kansas border in June 2000. In this storm 39 of the ...

The Beshar River is one aquatic ecosystem, which is located next to the city of Yasuj in southern Iran. The Beshar river has been contaminated by industrial factories such as effluent of sugar factory, agricultural and other activities in this region such as, Imam Sajjad hospital, drainage from agricultural farms, Yasuj urban surface runoff and effluent of wastewater treatment plants ,specially...

In this study, the authors investigate various properties of coal gasification slag fine aggregate (CGS) when applied to high-strength concrete. The amount admixture using CGS concrete is lower than that ordinary initial compressive strength and onset up 91-day age were smaller those aggregate. Young’s modulus approximately 1.1 times reduced autogenous shrinkage only in case portland cement. mo...

Previously it had been shown that calycosin and calycosin-7-O-beta-D-glucoside (CGs) accumulate in whole plants, mainly in leaves, of Astragalus membranaceus Bge. var. mongholicus (Bge.) Hsiao (A. mongholicus) plants in response to low temperature. In this work, it was demonstrated that the influences of different conditions on CGs biosynthesis, by examining the changes in CGs content, as well ...

Although L-triiodothyronine (L-T3) lowers cholesterol, this hormone is not used to treat hypercholesterolemia because of its cardiotoxic effects. Thyromimetics, such as the novel compound CGS 23425, that mimic the beneficial but lack the detrimental effects of T3, may be useful in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. To show that CGS 23425 has no cardiotoxicity, atrial contractility and force...

Purines, that is, adenosine and ATP, are not only products of metabolism but are also neurotransmitters. Indeed, purinergic neurotransmission is involved in thermoregulatory processes that occur during normoxia. Exposure to severe hypoxia elicits a sharp decrease in body core temperature (T(CO)), and adenosinergic mechanisms have been suspected to be responsible for this hypothermia. Because AT...

Chevrier, Céline, Lionel Bourdon, and Frédéric Canini. Cosignaling of adenosine and adenosine triphosphate in hypobaric hypoxiainduced hypothermia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290: R595–R600, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00241.2005.—Purines, that is, adenosine and ATP, are not only products of metabolism but are also neurotransmitters. Indeed, purinergic neurotransmission is involved in...

AIM While caregivers (CGs) make an important contribution to the self-care of heart failure (HF) patients, there are no reliable and valid tools for measuring such contributions. Current interventions that strive to optimize patient outcomes through self-care strategies neglect to account for CG contributions, a potential confounder on outcomes. The aim of the study was to develop an instrument...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this study was to test the stress process model (SPM; Pearlin, Mullan, Semple, & Skaff, 1990) in a racially diverse sample of Alzheimer's caregivers (CGs) using structural equation modeling (SEM) and regression techniques. A secondary aim was to examine race or ethnicity as a moderator of the relation between latent constructs (e.g., subjective stressors and role stra...