[Purpose] The main purpose of this study was to identify the impact of rib cage joint mobilization and chest wall stretch on respiratory muscle tone and stiffness and chest expansion in stroke patients and to compare the effects of both interventions. [Subjects and Methods] Subjects were randomly assigned to a rib cage joint mobilization group (n=15) or a chest wall stretch group (n=15). Respir...

Tandem source-channel coding is proven to be optimal by Shannon given unlimited delay and complexity in the coders. Under low delay and low complexity constraints, joint source-channel coding may achieve better performance. Although digital joint source-channel coding has shown a noticeable gain in terms of reconstructed signal quality, coding delay, and complexity, it suffers from the leveling...

The use of IL-2/JES6-1 Ab complex (IL-2 Ab Cx) has been considered as a potential therapeutic for inflammatory diseases due to its selective expansion of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in mice. Here, IL-2 Ab Cx was explored as a therapeutic agent to reduce joint inflammation induced by chikungunya virus, an alphavirus causing debilitating joint disease globally. Virus-infected mice treated with IL-...

The optimization of sensor thresholds and fusion rule for heterogeneous and correlated sensor suite is accomplished through a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Different correlation structures are assumed and the effect of correlation on the choice of final fusion rule and thresholds is analyzed. Optimal decision fusion for correlated sensors includes estimation of 2 joint probabilities. B...

In this paper, we reduce computation time of elliptic curve signature verification scheme by proposing the minimal joint Hamming weight conversion for any binary expansions of d integers. The computation time of multi-scalar multiplication, the bottleneck operation of the scheme, strongly depends on the joint Hamming weight. As we represent the scalars using redundant representations, we may re...

An efficient reliability assessment approach is used to estimate the reliability of a return expansion joint. This component is part of a large power generation system. In order to perform the reliability assessment task, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Method (FEM), Fatigue analysis, and Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) tools are integrated. The process starts with CFD simulatio...