Invasive nonindigenous plant species (NIPS) threaten native diversity, alter ecosystem processes, and may interact with other components of global environmental change. Here, a general framework is outlined that attempts to connect patterns of plant invasion to processes underlying these patterns at four well-established spatio-temporal stages of the invasion process: transport, colonization, e...

The aim of this study was to compare the bone resorption differences between implant placement sites (IPS) and non-implant placement sites (NIPS) after autogenous block bone grafts in the anterior maxilla. Fourteen patients (58 edentulous sites) with alveolar atrophy in the anterior maxilla were treated with autogenous block bone grafts. CBCT examinations were performed at 1 month before surger...

CONTEXT The subjectivity of pain causes enormous difficulties in evaluating neonatal pain with a single, practical and easy-to-apply tool. Pain evaluation in the neonatal period should be performed by valid, safe, useful and feasible methods. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of the Neonatal Facial Coding System (NFCS), Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS), heart rate (HR) and O2 saturation (O2...

[1] Nemirovski and Yudin. Problems Complexity and Method Efficiency in Optimization. Wiley-Interscience series in discrete mathematics. Wiley, 1983. [2] W. Krichene, A. Bayen and P. Bartlett. Accelerated Mirror Descent in Continuous and Discrete Time. NIPS 2015. [3] W. Su, S. Boyd and E. Candes. A differential equation for modeling Nesterov's accelerated gradient method: theory and insights. NI...

Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (NIPS) are employed in-line with the network segment that needs to be protected. As the packets within the network passes through the NIPS device, the packets are inspected for the presence of any attacks. Like viruses, most intruder activities have some kind of signatures, hence a NIPS device contains a pattern matching algorithm to match the virus signatur...

Throughout this chapter, ‖·‖ denotes the standard Euclidean norm. Problem (1) generalizes the more thoroughly studied class of composite convex optimization problems [30], a class that has witnessed huge interest in machine learning, signal processing, statistics, and other related areas. We refer the interested reader to [2, 3, 21, 37] for several convex examples and recent references. A threa...

Recently, the concept of microgrid (MG) has been developed to assist penetration large numbers distributed energy resources (DERs) into distribution networks. However, integration DERs in form MGs disturbs operating codes traditional Consequently, protection strategies cannot be applied MG against short-circuit faults. This paper presents a novel intelligent strategy (NIPS) for based on empiric...

Nipping is a potentially damaging aggressive behavior of juvenile steelhead trout (SaBmo gairdneri). By analyzing videotaped interactions of pairs of fish we determined where nips were aimed and where they contacted the opponent's body. Patterns of fin damage were also assessed. Aims and nips (contacts) were distributed differently i n reciprocal and nonreciprocal aggressive bouts. In nonrecipr...

OBJECTIVE Circumcision is a commonly performed surgical procedure but choice of anesthesia remained an issue of research and debate. This study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of the eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA) cream with dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) using lignocaine, for reduction of pain during circumcision. METHODOLOGY This was comparative study carried out ...