250 words) A single exposure to menthol can, depending on concentration, enhance both cool sensations and encourage body heat storage. This study tested whether there is an habituation in either response after repeated-daily exposures. Twenty-two participants were assigned to one of three spray groups: Control (CON; n=6), 0.05% l-menthol (M0.05%; n=8), 0.2% lmenthol (M0.2%; n=8). On Monday (20°...

Hybrid dysprosium-doped borate glassy samples [B-Gly/Dy]HDG (Borate Glass/Dysprosium)Hybrid Doped Glass were prepared in this study via the melt-quenching method. Its linear/nonlinear optical, photoluminescence, hardness indentation, and micro-creep properties analyzed. The amorphous structure for all was confirmed from XRD patterns. In addition, density functional theory (DFT), optimized by TD...

This paper proposes a two-strategy reinforcement evolutionary algorithm using data-mining crossover strategy (TSR-EADCS) with a TSK-type fuzzy controller (TFC) for solving various control problems. The purpose of the R-EADCS is not only to improve the design of traditional reinforcement signal but also to determine the suitable rules in a TFC and the suitable groups that are selected to perform...

This work presents the use of local fuzzy prototypes as a new idea to obtain accurate local semantics-based Takagi–Sugeno–Kang ~TSK! rules. This allow us to start from prototypes considering the interaction between input and output variables and taking into account the fuzzy nature of the TSK rules. To do so, a two-stage evolutionary algorithm based on MOGUL ~a methodology to obtain Genetic Fuz...

The purification and molecular properties of lysine decarboxylase from Hafnia alvei and the preparation of polyvalent antibodies specific for this enzyme are described. The enzyme was purified within two HPLC steps on a TSK G 4000 SW and a MonoQ column to homogeneity. The subunit of the enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 80.000 d. Under "native" condi­ tions it seems to form aggrega...

This book considers Jesuit architecture through the lens of ‘propaganda’ and vice versa. Fascinated by apparent connections between Nazi propaganda and Jesuit architecture, Levy asks whether we might usefully think of early modern Jesuit architecture in terms of propaganda. Conversely, she suggests that National Socialist architecture was indebted to the Baroque: ‘That Speer and Hitler self-con...