Background—Stretch elicits an immediate, followed by a delayed, inotropic response in various animal models and failing human myocardium. This study aimed to characterize functional differences in the stretch response between failing and nonfailing human myocardium. Methods and Results—Experiments were performed in muscle tissue from 86 failing and 16 nonfailing human hearts. Muscles were stret...

Fermented Soymilk (FSM), a protein rich beverage is highly prone to microbial contamination. Its preservation therefore key its availability and safety. was prepared by aqueous extraction of soybeans allowed ferment spontaneously. Samples FSM were treated with leaf essential oil Hoslundia opposita (LEOHO) at 5% 10% (v/v) stored ambient temperature. The organoleptic, pH microbiological qualities...

The goal of this chapter is to review recent developments on sensor placement for fault diagnosis in drinking water networks. Solving a sensor placement problem for fault diagnosis entails the evaluation of the diagnosis performance of a monitoring system for a certain sensor configuration. In model-based fault diagnosis the monitoring system is built upon a set of consistency indicators, which...

Strain CCMM B554, also known as FSM-MA, is a soil dwelling and nodule forming, nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from the nodules of the legume Medicago arborea L. in the Maamora Forest, Morocco. The strain forms effective nitrogen fixing nodules on species of the Medicago, Melilotus and Trigonella genera and is exceptional because it is a highly effective symbiotic partner of the two most wid...

This paper presents a new level of description between behavioral and state descriptions of a finite-state machine (FSM). The description is termed behavioral phase clustering description. New concepts of behavioral phase and clustering of behavioral phases in an FSM are introduced. The new description simplifies functional analysis, verification and test of FSM designs. If an FSM is described ...

Estimating software size is a difficult task that requires a methodological approach. Many different methods that exist today use distinct abstractions to depict a software system. The gap between abstractions becomes even greater with object-oriented artifacts developed in unified modeling language (UML). In this paper, a formal foundation for the representation of functional size measurement ...

In fertility-sparing management (FSM), two different issues can be distinguished: the risk of recurrence/death and chance childbearing. Survival is principal outcome in oncology, definitions overall survival progression-free are therefore well defined widely accepted. The introduction FSM to clinical practice was determined by desire young cancer patients still have children. Initially, small g...

Reactivity to unforeseen disturbances is one of the most crucial characteristics for biped robots walk robustly in real world. Nevertheless, conventional walking methods generally have limited capability generating rapid reactions disturbances, because these it necessary wait until end preplanned time period proceed next phase. In this study, improve reactivity, we develop an event-based finite...

This paper presents a model comprising Finite State Machines (FSMs) with embedded Genetic Programs (GPs) which co-evolve to perform the task of Automatic Target Detection (ATD). The fusion of a FSM and GPs allows for a control structure (main program), the FSM, and sub-programs, the GPs, to co-evolve in a symbiotic relationship. The GP outputs along with the FSM state transition levels are used...

According to articulatory phonology, the gestural score is an invariant speech representation. Though the timing schemes, i.e., the onsets and offsets, of the gestural activations may vary, the ensemble of these activations tends to remain unchanged, informing the speech content. " Gestural pattern vector " (GPV) has been proposed to encode the instantaneous gestural activations that exist acro...