OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the relationship between RLS and clinical/laboratory findings of COPD. METHODS One hundred and thirty-four COPD patients without secondary causes of RLS were included. Thirty-nine (29.1%) patients were diagnosed with RLS and classified as Group 1. The control ...

background: restless legs  syndrome  (rls)  is the  most common movement disorder in pregnancy, which can be idiopathic  or secondary. there are  limited  comparative data  regarding  these  two forms of rls.  the aim of this study was to compare  clinical features  of idiopathic  and secondary rls in pregnant women. methods: over a period  of 3 months, 443 women  who admitted for delivery in t...

We present a “twice universal” linear prediction algorithm over the unknown parameters and model orders, in which the sequentially accumulated square prediction error is as good as any linear predictor of order up to some M , for any individual sequence. The extra loss comprises of a parameter “redundancy” term proportional to (p/2)n-’ In(h), and a model order “redundancy” term proportional to ...

background and objective : restless legs syndrome (rls) is a sleep disorder with an association to sleep quality. we investigated the sleep quality in patients with rls among health-care workers with or without shift work. materials and methods : all female health-care workers (n = 540) in four educational hospitals were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. international rls study group (irl...

PLMS and CardiovaSCuLar riSk We recently reported that uremic RLS patients with severe PLMS experienced further detrimental alterations in cardiac structure in comparison to PLMS-free uremic RLS patients. These alterations included an increased left ventricular internal diameter in diastole, which lead to a significantly increased left ventricular mass compared to their PLMS-free counterparts (...

New learning algorithms for an adaptive nonlinear forward predictor that is based on a pipelined recurrent neural network (PRNN) are presented. A computationally efficient gradient descent (GD) learning algorithm, together with a novel extended recursive least squares (ERLS) learning algorithm, are proposed. Simulation studies based on three speech signals that have been made public and are ava...

Bit error rate (BER) performance of DS-CDMA receiver which consists of a RAKE receiver followed an adaptive MLSE diversity receiver is proposed to simultaneously suppress multi user interferences and multi path fading interferences. A new adaptive equalization in the channel estimator and predictor of MLSE receiver is introduced. RLS algorithm is used for adaptive channel estimator. The Euclide...

In order to achieve fast convergence and less computation for adaptive filters, a joint method combining a whitening process and the NLMS algorithm is a hopeful approach. One of them is to combine a lattice predictor and a transversal filter supervised by the NLMS algorithm. However, the filter coefficient adaptation is very sensitive to the reflection coefficient fluctuation. In this paper, th...

Introduction: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological sensory-motor disorder that is observed as an unpleasant sensation in the legs, especially when sitting or lying down and at rest. This study aimed to determine the prevalence RLS and its related factors among older adults in Eslamabad-e-Gharb, Kermanshah province, Iran in 2021. Methods: Totally, 240 elderlies entered the study using...