OBJECTIVES Fibromyalgia has been recently recognized in children and adolescents as juvenile fibromyalgia (JF). In adult fibromyalgia, subjective complaints of nonrestorative sleep and fatigue are supported by altered polysomnographic findings including a primary sleep disorder known as periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS) in some subjects. Although poor sleep is a diagnostic criterion for J...

Let f : Y → Z with Y ⊆ XI := Πi∈I Xi. Then (a) J ⊆ I is essential if there are x, y ∈ Y such that d(x, y) = J and f(x) 6= f(y), where d(x, y) := {i ∈ I : xi 6= yi}; Jf := {i : {i} is essential}; an essential J is optimally essential if no essential J ′ ⊆ J satisfies |J ′| < |J |; J ∈ Jf if J is a maximal family of pairwise disjoint optimally essential sets; λf := sup{|J | : J ∈ Jf}. (b) f depen...

the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) cooperated to explore the possible impact of learning-style instructional strategies on student achievement and attitudes. In five years, that initial effort expanded into a national network that continued expanding to include thirty centers on four continents by 1994. The group, the International Learning Styles Network, currently...

Background. Septic arthritis (SA) is a common and serious infection in children and can cause significant orthopedic morbidity. Bacteria are most often implicated, but routine cultures are frequently negative, because of prior antibiotics or delayed evaluation of joint fluid (JF). As such, children are treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. A rapid molecular test that can identify the common ...

BACKGROUND Understanding the pathogenesis of the chiari-like malformation in the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (CKCS) is incomplete, and current hypotheses do not fully explain the development of syringomyelia (SM) in the spinal cords of affected dogs. This study investigates an unconventional pathogenetic theory for the development of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure waves in the subarachnoi...

In this paper, the security of a distance bounding protocol is analyzed which has been recently proposed by Jannati and Falahati (so-called JF). We prove that an adversary can recover key bits of JF protocol with probability of “1” while the complexity of attack is “2n” runs of protocol. In addition, we propose an improved protocol and prove that the improved protocol is resistant to mafia frau...

MANETs are susceptible to various attacks. Out of which denial of service (DoS) are most dangerous and very difficult to detect and defend. Jellyfish is a new DoS attack categorized as JF Reorder Attack, JF Periodic Dropping Attack, JF Delay Variance Attack. In JF delay variance attack, a JF attacker node intrudes into forwarding group and delays data packets for some amount of time before forw...

The brittleness of plain concrete (PC) is a result its lack tensile strength and poor resistance to cracking, which in turn limits potential uses. addition dispersed fibres into the binding material has been demonstrated have positive impact on properties PC. Nevertheless, using new or engineered significantly increases overall cost carbon footprint concrete. Consequently, main obstacle creatin...

PtRu nanoparticles decorated on carbon-based supports are of great interest for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). In this study, alloy carbon Vulcan XC-72 (C), multi-walled nanotubes (MWCNTs), and C-MWCNTs composite were synthesized by co-reduction method. As a result, obtained small mean size (dmean = 1.8–3.8 nm) with distribution 1–7 nm. We found that PtRu/C60MWCNTs40 possesses not only hig...