Purpose To develop and validate the Functional Reading Independence (FRI) Index, a new patient-reported outcome measure assessing reading activities in individuals with geographic atrophy (GA) due to age-related macular degeneration. Methods The Index was developed through expert consultation and qualitative patient interviews. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness were tested with data f...

In this paper, we compute ABC index, Randic connectivity index, Sum connectivity index, GA index, Harmonic index, General Randic index of Triglyceride. AMS subject classification:

The head smut fungus, Sporisorium reilianum ([Kuhn] Landon and Fullerton), was shown to reduce plant height in infected Sorghum bicolor ([L.] Moench) plants. The major reductions occurred in the internodes nearest the panicle and were more severe in naturally infected than in inoculated plants. Less affected plants developed reproductively sterile panicles, and eventually smutted panicles devel...

The concept of geometric-arithmetic indices was introduced in the chemical graph theory. These indices are defined by the following general formula:     ( ) 2 ( ) uv E G u v u v Q Q Q Q GA G , where Qu is some quantity that in a unique manner can be associated with the vertex u of graph G. In this paper the exact formula for two types of geometric-arithmetic index of Vphenylenic nanotube ar...

This study investigated the effect of gum arabic (GA) combined with microbial transglutaminase (TG) on the functional properties of porcine myofibrillar protein (MP). As an indicator of functional property, heat-set gel and emulsion characteristics of MP treated with GA and/or TG were explored under varying NaCl concentrations (0.1-0.6 M). The GA improved thermal gelling ability of MP during th...

This paper proposes an intelligent trading system using support vector regression optimized by genetic algorithms (SVR-GA) and multilayer perceptron optimized with GA (MLP-GA). Experimental results show that both approaches outperform conventional trading systems without prediction and a recent fuzzy trading system in terms of final equity and maximum drawdown for Hong Kong Hang Seng stock index.

Granuloma annulare(GA) is an inflammatory benign cutaneous disease of unknown etiology that may manifest different clinical features. The most common presentation or classic form of the disease is manifested as flesh colored, annular grouped papules, commonly involving the hands and feet. Various skin injuries and infections have been reported to trigger GA, including insect bites, warts,...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of clinical gait analysis (GA) on the costs of care in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP) and the amount of surgery these children undergo. METHODS A retrospective review identified all ambulatory patients with CP who had undergone lower extremity orthopaedic surgery at our hospital from 1991 to 2005 with at least a 6...

The geometric-arithmetic index of graph G is defined as GA(G) = ∑ uv∈E(G) 2 √ dudv du+dv , du (or dv) is the degree the vertex u (or v). The GA index of benzenoid systems and phenylenes are computed, a simple relation is established between the geometric-arithmetic of a phenylene and the corresponding hexagonal squeeze in this paper. Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C05, 05C12