1 Departamento de Engenharia de Sistemas Eletrônicos, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EPUSP), Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, trav. 3, n. 158, Cidade Universitária, CEP 05508-900, São Paulo-SP, Brasil; E-Mails: [email protected] (M.R.C.); [email protected] (J.E.E.I.); [email protected] (G.S.B.); [email protected] (E.A.T.D.) 2 Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Ech...

We designed a cluster surface smoothing method that can fast locate the minimum of the funnels in the potential energy surface (PES). By inserting the cluster surface smoothing approach into the gradient-based local optimization (LO)-phase and the global optimization (GO)-phase as a second LO-phase, the GO-phase can focus on the global information oWalesf the PES over the various funnels. Follo...

Malaria fever is highly periodic and is associated with the parasite replication cycles in red blood cells. The existence of periodicity in malaria infection demonstrates that parasite replication in different red blood cells is synchronized. In this article, rigorous mathematical analysis of an age-structured human malaria model of infected red blood cells (Rouzine and McKenzie, Proc Natl Acad...

A survey of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was carried out among residents in urban (Metro Manila) and rural (Mindoro and Leyte) areas in the Philippines. A total of 1,173 serum samples were examined for Toxoplasma antibody by an ELISA method. The overall seropositivity was 11.1% (n=904, 12.4% in males, 10.0% in females) in Metro Manila, 61.2% (n=152, 63.3% in males, 53.1% in females) in Mindo...

This report describes the results of detailed statistical analysis of sea clutter data that were collected during the ESRL 38/97 trial, which was held off the Northern Australian coastline in February 1999. One of the trial's main objectives was to contribute to a database of experimentally collected clutter returns with radar system parameters that are comparable to those used in the Elta EL/M...

NMDA receptor activation enhances inhibitory GABAergic transmission onto 1 hippocampal pyramidal neurons via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms 2 3 Jiu-Gang Xue, Takayoshi Masuoka, Xian-Di Gong, Ken-Shiung Chen, 4 Yuchio Yanagawa, S.K. Alex Law, and Shiro Konishi 5 6 Department of Neurophysiology, Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and 7 Institute of Neuroscience, Tokushima Bunri Uni...

Abstract Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and acute myocardial infarction cardiovascular (AMI) are two important health issues in older patients. Little is known regarding characteristics of AMI patients hospitalized for CAP. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence, compared with younger patients, impact on clinical outcomes risk factors during hospitalization CAP geriatric Metho...