Spent fuel transportation and storage cask designs based on a burnup credit approach must consider issues that are not relevant in casks designed under a fresh-fuel loading assumption. For example, the spent fuel composition must be adequately characterized and the criticality analysis model can be complicated by the need to consider axial burnup variations. Parametric analyses are needed to ch...

Classification of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Associated Factors in Inpatients in Psychiatric Hospitals – with Special Reference to Rehabilitation Shigehito Shiota1,3*, Yuki Sugimoto1, Chiga Murai1, Maki Kitamura2, Shoryoku Hino2, Tatsuru Kitamura2 and Katsuyuki Shibata3 1Department of Occupational Therapy, Ishikawa Prefectural Takamatsu Hospital, Ya-36 Uchi-Takama...

The present work describes the development and validation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) by comparison with classical and more advanced parametric and nonparametric statistical modeling methods such as Multiple Regression (MR), Generalized Additive Models (GAM), and Alternating Conditional Expectations (ACE) to estimate spatial distribution of fish in a mesotrophic reservoir. The modeling ...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to explore the effects of genetic polymorphisms (CYP1B1*2 G355T, CYP1B1*3 C4326G, and CYP2E1*5 G-1293C) and environmental factors (smoking and drinking) on susceptibility to laryngeal cancer in a Han Chinese study group. METHODS This case-control study included 552 Han Chinese patients diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and 666 healthy control subjects of the sam...

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JOHN D. MCVAY*, OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA and BRYAN CARSTENS Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA Facultad de Ciencias, Museo de Zoologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Circuito Extrior de CU, Mexico, DF, 04510, Mexico Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 318 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, ...

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