The purpose of this study was to clarify the additive efficacy of short-acting β(2)-agonists (SABA) or muscarinic antagonists (SAMA) on dynamic hyperinflation and exercise tolerance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who had been treated with long-acting bronchodilators. Thirty-two patients with stable COPD who had been treated with long-acting bronchodilators, includ...

Assigning proper dispatching rules dynamically has been shown to enhance various performance measures for a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). To achieve this, real-time salient information of the system is extracted and then a rule’s dispatching mechanism is built for the scheduling task. For a dynamic scheduled FMS, two critical issues dominate the performance; the first is the selection of...

The varying trend of a moving vehicle's angles provides much important intelligence for an unattended ground sensor (UGS) monitoring system. The present study investigates the capabilities of a small-aperture microphone array (SAMA) based system to identify the number and moving direction of vehicles travelling on a previously established route. In this paper, a SAMA-based acoustic monitoring s...

One of the most effective techniques to prevent the tainted and adversary messages from being forwarded in wireless sensor network is message authentication. Message authentication is a short piece of information used to offer integrity, validate a message and legitimacy declarations on the message. In this paper, we have used the Source Anonymous Message Authentication scheme (SAMA) that is on...

Sama Rezasoltani1, Ehsan Nazemalhosseini Mojarrad2, Mohsen Norouzinia2, Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei1 1Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and ...

Mini-models are local regression models, which can be used for the function approximation learning. In the paper, there are presented mini-models based on hyper-spheres and hyper-ellipsoids and researches were made for linear and nonlinear models with no limitations for the problem input space dimension. Learning of the approximation function based on mini-models is very fast and it proved to h...

• Initial hamza: • BN: All initial hamzas (glottal stops) are heard and transcribed with either a-, such as نإِ an~a (that) • Newswire (NW): Neutralized نا An form very common (1.5% of tokens in ATB3) • Annotators forced to distinguish between aforms based on context • The two forms require different POS and tree annotations, different guidelines For initial ...

background one of human’s psychological needs is to have a transcendent relationship with an omnipotent and superior force. prayer and praise is one of the manifestations of human relationship with the lord of the universe. objectives the study aims to comparatively examine the effect of prayer and praise on peace of mind and physical health from male and female students’ points of view in gona...

354 June 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6 SAMJ Thieves of the state and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) ‘SAMA upholds the principles of honesty, integrity and patientcentredness and does not condone any unethical practice by its members.’ This is reassuring to see in print, even though it should go without saying for a nation’s official medical association. The same SAMA mass e-mail’s striden...

INTRODUCTION General surgery is facing a serious crisis. There has been a significant decline in the number of applicants for registrar posts and an inability to attract and retain general surgical specialists in the state sector. The Association of Surgeons of South Africa (ASSA) undertook this study to determine the extent and cause of the problem. METHODS The study involved a combination o...