An interior point method (IPM) defines a search direction at an interior point of the feasible region. These search directions form a direction field which in turn defines, as the unique solution of a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), a curve passing through any interior point. We call such curves off-central paths (the central path is trivial for analysis; our concern is off-ce...

Accelerometers are becoming more widely used in the assessment of physical activity in children, and converting the output to min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) requires the use of age-specific cut-off point definitions. However, numerous cut-off points are available among children, and different cutoff point definitions of MVPA have been used in different studies. Comparison ...

Background: Sepsis is regarded as a critical clinical status in neonates. Since blood culture is a time-consuming method, the present study was conducted to investigate the serum level of Ferritin, Procalcitonin, and CRP in the peripheral blood of term neonates suspected with sepsis to have a quicker diagnosis for the disease. Methods: In the pres...

background : the measuring serum ferritin level as a sensitive inflammatory biomarker might effectively predict preterm delivery, but the power and the best cut-off point of this biomarker for predicting preterm labor in iranian population has not been substantially identified. our purpose was to determine what concentrations of serum ferritin could identify patients at risk for preterm deliver...

conclusions it seems that fast examination for intra-abdominal fluid in blunt trauma patients can predict intra-abdominal injuries with very high sensitivity and specificity. using the scoring system can more accurately determine the probability of the presence of abdominal injuries with a cut-off point of three. results the mean age of the patients was 29.6 ± 18.3 years and fast was positive i...

This is a continuation of our previous results (Y. Watanabe, N. Yamamoto, T. Nakao, and T. Nishida, “A Numerical Verification of Nontrivial Solutions for the Heat Convection Problem,” to appear in the Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics). In that work, the authors considered twodimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection and proposed an approach to prove existence of steady-state solutions based...