The relationship between PWCFT and common measures used to assess sarcopenia in older adults were examined. Fifty-eight older adults [age: 71.1 ± 6.2 years; body mass index (BMI): 28.0 ± 5.4 kg/m(2)] completed the testing procedures. Sarcopenia-related body composition was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and participants performed a discontinuous cycle ergometry test to determine P...

This paper presents COREALMLIB, an ALM library of commonsense knowledge about dynamic domains. The library was obtained by translating part of the COMPONENT LIBRARY (CLIB) into the modular action language ALM. CLIB consists of general reusable and composable commonsense concepts, selected based on a thorough study of ontological and lexical resources. Our translation targets CLIB states (i.e., ...

Secreted Wnt proteins influence neural connectivity by regulating axon guidance, dendritic morphogenesis and synapse formation. We report a new role for Wnt and Frizzled proteins in establishing the anteroposterior polarity of the mechanosensory neurons ALM and PLM in C. elegans. Disruption of Wnt signaling leads to a complete inversion of ALM and PLM polarity: the anterior process adopts the l...

After a decade of research and development, IP multicast has still not been deployed widely in the global Internet due to many open technical issues: lack of admission control, poorly scaled with large number of groups, and requiring substantial infrastructure modifications. To provide the benefits of IP multicast without requiring direct router support or the presence of a physical broadcast m...

Currently, there are two mainstream process modelling paradigms: the traditional activity-centric approach and the recent artefact-centric approach. Several approaches have been proposed for configuration of traditional activity-centric business processes; however, to the best of our knowledge, few approaches have been developed for artefact-centric business processes. This paper fills this gap...

Natural Products offer an alternative to synthetic radioprotectors being less toxic. In this study 50% alcoholic extract of Mentha piperita (ALM) was tested for its radioprotective ability in terms of radiation sickness and survival of Swiss albino mice. This drug was well tolerated at highest dose of 1000mg/kg b.wt./day for three consecutive days. All doses of drug provided significant protect...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2010.06.012 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5712121. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L.-Y. Yeh) (C.-C. Huang), [email protected] (C.-E. Wu), j Huang). 1 A target is an object tracked by the sensor netwo ‘object’ are used interchangeably. Location management is an important issue for object tracking application...

BACKGROUND In the majority of melanomas, the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK signaling pathway is constitutively activated, due to oncogenic mutations in the BRAF and NRAS genes. The BRAF mutation has been mainly described in Caucasian melanomas. However, there is a lack of study evaluating the status, and the clinical significance, of BRAF mutation in the Asian population. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to ...

Statistical iterative reconstruction (SIR) for X-ray computed tomography (CT) under the penalized weighted least-squares criteria can yield significant gains over conventional analytical reconstruction from the noisy measurement. However, due to the nonlinear expression of the objective function, most exiting algorithms related to the SIR unavoidably suffer from heavy computation load and slow ...

Using data from a 2017 survey of Czech academics this article examines the casualisation working conditions in academic labour market (ALM) and explores gender, sectoral, institutional inequalities through lens theory segmentation. A hierarchical cluster analysis reveals three segments ALM: core (40%), periphery (28%), semi‐periphery (32%), which roughly align with work positions early, middle,...