Midaortic syndrome (MAS) is a rare vascular disease that commonly causes renovascular hypertension. The lumen of the abdominal aorta narrows and the ostia of the branches show stenosis. MAS is associated with diminished pulses in the lower extremities compared with the upper extremities, severe hypertension with higher blood pressure in the upper rather than lower extremities, and an abdominal ...

Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing real-world applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamism. Several industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MAS offers advantages in many different areas such as manufacturing processes, e-Commerce, network management, etc. As MASs in such contexts need to be tested before their deployment a...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) emerged as a promising approach for developing complex and distributed systems. However, tools that support development of MASs are essential for this approach is effectively exploited in industrial context. Therefore, there is a need for tools for the modeling of MAS, because create and manipulate models without support of an appropriate environment are tedious and er...

The purpose of this study was to compare hamstring musculo-articular stiffness (MAS) and lower extremity (LE) body composition in the dominant (D) and non-dominant (ND) legs of men and women, and then to examine relationships between MAS and LE body composition while controlling for sex. No differences in MAS or LE body composition were found between D and ND legs in either sex. Males demonstra...

A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. MAS can be used to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent to solve. The different characteristics of MAS help in solving highly complex distributed problems. One of the important characteristics of MAS is its cooperative nature. This character helps different agents to in...

A family of C29 4,4-dimethylsterol intermediates in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway from lanosterol has been found to induce oocytes to resume meiosis.[248] One of these sterols, 4,4-dimethyl-5α-cholest-8,14,24-triene-3β-ol, was extracted from human follicular fluid and named follicular fluid meiosis–activating substance (FF-MAS). A related compound, 4,4-dimethyl-5α-cholest-8,24-diene-3β-o...

Achieving interoperability among open and distributed systems is an issue addressed by several research communities, such as the ones related to service-oriented, cloud and bigdata computing, among others, mostly by proposing standards and protocols. The multiagent systems (MAS) research community is also interested in it, since Organization-Centered MAS (OC-MAS) are suitable for developing ope...

Multi Agent Systems (MAS) comprise of a collection of autonomous and interacting agents that adapt to their environment. The agents within a MAS exhibit many of the same behaviours in the form of cross-cutting concerns. Aspects are a technology that can be used to represent cross-cutting concerns by weaving them through a system at specific points. In this paper a development process based on t...