Preschool wheezing affects one-third of all children growing up in the UK [1]. It varies in clinical presentation and severity, and there is evidence to suggest the co-existence of different wheeze phenotypes [2], some of which have been associated with adult asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [3]. Using data from the Leicester Respiratory Cohort studies [4], we have previously ap...

In this paper we study the neighbourhood of 15-variable Patterson-Wiedemann (PW) functions, i.e., the functions that differ by a small Hamming distance from the PW functions in terms of truth table representation. We exploit the idempotent structure of the PW functions and interpret them as Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions (RSBFs). We present techniques to modify these RSBFs to introduce ze...

Malaysia, especially the Borneo Island state of Sarawak, has a large variety of tropical wood species. In this study, selected raw tropical wood species namely Artocarpus Elasticus, Artocarpus Rigidus, Xylopia spp., Koompassia Malaccensis, and Eugenia spp. were chemically treated with sodium metaperiodate to convert them into plasticized wood (PW). Manufactured plasticized wood samples were cha...

Abstract. It is well known from a result by Shapiro-Shields that in the Hardy spaces, a sequence of reproducing kernels is uniformly minimal if and only if it is an unconditional basis in its span. This property which can be reformulated in terms of interpolation and so-called weak interpolation is not true in Paley-Wiener spaces in general. Here we show that the Carleson condition on a sequenc...

Here we report an acute effect of aquatic pole walking (PW) training intervention on a 64-year-old male patient with chronic hemiparesis and symptoms of spasticity in the right lower limb. A comparison of over ground walking before and after 20 minutes of aquatic PW training revealed a significant improvement in gait performance. As a main result, the average speed of walking after the interven...

Let tw(G), pw(G), c(G), !J.(G) denote, respectively, the tree-width, path-width, cutwidth and the maximum degree of a graph G on 11 vertices . It is known that c (G)~tw (G). We prove that c (G) =0 (tw (G)·!J.(G)·logn), and if ({Xj : iel] ,T=(I,A» is a tree decomposition of G with tree-wid~ then c (G) S (k+ l)·!J.(G)·c (T). In case that a tree decomposition is given, or that the tree-width is bo...

Phosphorus (P) is a key element in many biological processes of plants and animals. We aimed to investigate the effect of different salinity levels and Ca:Mg ratios of irrigation water arid lands on soil available P, soluble P, and P absorbed by the pistachio plant. For this purpose, a greenhouse experiment was conducted by sowing the seeds of pistachio in a factorial randomized block design wi...

RESUMO O debate social na escola é indispensável para uma educação integral, crítica e emancipadora. No entanto, sensibilizar os estudantes essencial abordar questões sociais de forma dialógica, diminuindo as resistências ao debate. A partir da reflexão Grada Kilomba, do ponto vista psíquico, sobre tais resistências, o trabalho adotou a Caminhada Privilégio (PW) como estratégia aproximação desi...

Immunization with the whole-cell pertussis vaccine (Pw), while effective at preventing whooping cough in infants, has been associated with local, systemic, and neuronal reactions, including fevers and convulsions in children. In contrast, the new acellular pertussis vaccines (Pa) have a considerably improved safety profile. The lack of an appropriate animal model has restricted investigations i...

A 2x2 factorial experiment (ten sows per treatment) was conducted to investigate the effect of maternal dietary supplementation with a seaweed extract (SWE; 0 v. 10·0 g/d) and fish oil (FO; 0 v. 100 g/d) inclusion from day 109 of gestation until weaning (day 26) on pig performance post-weaning (PW) and intestinal morphology, selected microflora and immune status of pigs 9 d PW. The SWE containe...