BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Spasticity is a frequently observed motor impairment that develops after stroke; it can cause pain and disability in those affected. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of tizanidine, a centrally acting alpha(2)-adrenergic agonist, in the treatment of stroke-related spasticity. METHODS Forty-seven patients, who were a minimum of 6 ...

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) can be defined as soft computing systems inspired by immune system of vertebrates. Immune system is an adaptive pattern recognition system. AIS have been used in pattern recognition, machine learning, optimization and clustering. Feature reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encoun...

A new algorithm for computing the maximum entropy ranking over models is presented. The algorithm handles arbitrary sets of proposi-tional defaults with associated strength assignments and succeeds whenever the set satisses a robustness condition. Failure of this condition implies the problem may not be suuciently speciied for a unique solution to exist. This work extends the applicability of t...

artificial immune systems (ais) can be defined as soft computing systems inspired by immune system of vertebrates. immune system is an adaptive pattern recognition system. ais have been used in pattern recognition, machine learning, optimization and clustering. feature reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encoun...

background and objectives: phosphorus is one of the low bioavailable macroelements. use of microorganisms in biofertilizers could release phosphorus from insoluble compounds. pseudomonas putida p13 and pantoea agglomerans p5 are well recognized for application as phosphate solubilizing bioinoculants and are used as solid carrier based. liquid bioinoculants are preferred for economizing producti...