the primary function of pain is to warn the organism against dangers threatening its integrity. pain does serve as a warning signal for impending injuries. in some people, particularly young children. pain perception has been absent. congenital intesitivity to pain with anhidrosis (cipa) is rare genetic disease characterized by absence of reaction to noxious stimuli and anhidrosis. in this revi...

We have addressed the following question in this contribution To what extent should the domain ex perts in our case physicians be believed with regard to what they claim to see in images that allows them to recognize di erent types of pathology Until recently our approach was to have a physi cian delineate the pathology bearing regions in the images We then used what could be referred to as a s...

This paper formalizes and analyzes cognitive transitions between ar-tiicial perceptions that consist of an analogical or metaphorical transfer-ence of perception. The formalization is performed within a mathematical framework that has been used before to formalize other aspects of artii-cial perception and cognition. The mathematical infrastructure consists of a basic category ofàrtiicial perce...

A special multilayer percep tron architecture known as FuNe I is suc cessfully used for generating fuzzy systems for a number of real world applications The FuNe I trained with supervised learn ing can be used to extract fuzzy rules from a given representative input output data set Furthermore optimization of the knowledge base is possible including the tuning of membership functions The new me...

these investigations indicate that the anterior layer of the renal fascia continues across the midline of the body in front of the aorta and inferior vena cava to become continuous with a similar layer on the opposite side of the body. the posterior layer of the renal fascia blends with the fascia covering the psoas major especially at the medial and lateral edges of this muscle. but, in additi...

INTRODUCTION Nursing care is considered as an essential component of health services. Patients' health improvement depends upon the quality of nursing care. As an important principle, perceptions of nurses as well as their active participation in decision-makings has an important role in the quality of services. This study aimed to determine the percep-tion of nurses toward the quality of nursi...

The OMEGA architecture provides end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees for distributed applications. QoS parameters are translated between application and network requirements by the QoS Broker, thus integrating media and network QoS management into a single entity. Admission control uses a schedulability test derived from application requirements. A novel task priority and precedence b...