BACKGROUND Evidence on effectiveness of women's empowerment (WE) to reduce undernutrition is limited in sub-Sahara Africa, and few studies incorporate multidimensional measures of WE. OBJECTIVE To examine whether a WE status, in sum and across leadership, decision-making, mobility, economic security, male involvement in housework, and nonfamily group domains, is associated with women and thei...

Cognitive defusion is one of the components psychological flexibility in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The purpose this study was to translate Drexel Defusion Scale (DDS) into Turkish test its psychometric properties. This two-phase carried out with two groups participants. first phase, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) included 370 university students (218 female, 152 male). second Confir...

In the last decade, decision diagrams (DDs) have been basis for a large array of novel approaches modeling and solving optimization problems. Many techniques now use DDs as key tool to achieve state-of-the-art performance within other paradigms, such integer programming constraint programming. This paper provides survey in discrete optimization, particularly focusing on recent developments. We ...

Decision Diagrams (DDs) are a data structure for the representation and manipulation of discrete logic functions often applied in VLSI CAD. Common DDs to represent Boolean functions are Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). Multiple-valued logic functions can be represented by Multiple-valued Decision Diagrams (MDDs). The efficiency of a DD representation strongly depends on the variable ordering; t...

To achieve the goal of information dominance, the DoD has adopted the doctrine of net-centric operations and warfare (NCOW). The Global Information Grid (GIG), Future Combat System (FCS), C2 Constellation, and FORCEnet are examples of net-centric operations where multiple systems-of-systems integrate thousands of platforms, sensors, decision nodes, weapons, and warfighters through heterogeneous...

Abstract| Several types of Decision Diagrams (DDs) have have been proposed in the area of Computer Aided Design (CAD), among them being bit-level DDs like OBDDs, OFDDs and OKFDDs. While the aforementioned types of DDs are suitable for representing Boolean functions at the bit-level and have proved useful for a lot of applications in CAD, recently DDs to represent integer-valued functions, like ...

Multi-Terminal Binary Decision Diagrams (MTBDDs) are a well accepted technique for the state graph (SG) based quantitative analysis of large and complex systems specified by means of high-level model description techniques. However, this type of Decision Diagram (DD) is not always the best choice, since finite functions with small satisfaction sets, and where the fulfilling assignments possess ...

BACKGROUND Denys-Drash syndrome (DDS) is associated with mutations of the Wilms' tumour 1 (WT1) gene, and is characterized by pseudohermaphroditism, a progressive glomerulopathy, and the development of Wilms' tumour. More than 90% of patients with DDS who carry constitutional intragenic WT1 mutations are at high risk (90%) for the development of Wilms' tumour. WT1 is a signalling protein with 9...

In this paper, we propose an approach to the reduction of sizes of Multi-Terminal Binary Decision Diagrams (MTBDDs) [3] by using the copy properties of discrete functions. The underlying principles come from copy theory of discrete signals considered in [5, 6, 7]. We propose two modifications of MTBDDs, called Copy DDs (CDDs) and Half Copy DDs (HCDDs), using the corresponding copy operations fr...