Human intestinal flora comprises thousands of bacterial species. Growth and composition of intestinal microbiota is dependent on various parameters, including immune mechanisms, dietary factors and intestinal motility. Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) frequently display neurogenic bowel dysfunction due to the absence of central nervous system control over the gastrointestinal system. Cons...

BACKGROUND Limited information is available about prognostic factors for recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) to the L4-S3 segments. Previous research suggests that L4-S3 SCI does not have a worse prognosis than T3-L3 SCI. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To elucidate prognostic factors for regaining urinary continence and ambulation in dogs with L4-S3 SCI and compare prognosis to T3-L3 SCI. ANIMAL...

Muscle pathology in lower motor neuron paraplegia and h-b FES After complete Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), causing complete disconnection between the muscle fibers and the nervous system, the denervated muscles become unexcitable with commercial electrical stimulators within several months and undergo severe atrophy and disorganization of contractile apparatus after 1-3 years. Years after the injur...

OBJECTIVE To define the syndrome of primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) and disorders that contain features of both ALS and PLS, to determine the time beyond which PLS is less likely to become ALS clinically, and to determine the outcome of people with PLS and those who develop lower motor neuron (LMN) signs. METHODS The authors reviewed the records of all 39 patients initially diagnosed with PLS...

In this note we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a convergence space to have a smallest Hausdorff compactification and to have a smallest regular compactification. Introduction. A Hausdorff convergence space as defined in [1] always has a Stone-Cech compactification which can be obtained by a slight modification of the result in [3]. But in general this need not be the largest Hau...

In this paper, we consider the simplest class of stratified spaces -- linearly embedded graphs. We present an algorithm that learns abstract structure graph and models specific embedding from a point cloud sampled it. use tools inspiration computational geometry, algebraic topology, topological data analysis prove correctness identified under assumptions on embedding. The is implemented in Juli...

(3) { zn = βnxn + (1− βn)Txn, xn+1 = αnxn + (1− αn)Tzn, n ≥ 0, where the initial guess x0 is taken arbitrarily and {αn}n=0 and {βn} are sequences in the interval [0, 1]. In general not much has been known regarding the convergence of the iteration processes (1)-(3) unless the underlying space X has nice properties which we briefly mention here. The iteration process (1) has been proved to be st...

A convergence structure generalizing the order convergence structure on the set of Hausdorff continuous interval functions is defined on the set of minimal usco maps. The properties of the obtained convergence space are investigated and essential links with the pointwise convergence and the order convergence are revealed. The convergence structure can be extended to a uniform convergence struct...

A number of complexity classes, most notably ptime, have been characterised by sub-systems of linear logic. In this paper we show that the functions computable in logarithmic space can also be characterised by a restricted version of linear logic. We introduce Stratified Bounded Affine Logic (sbal), a restricted version of Bounded Linear Logic, in which not only the modality ! but also the univ...