abstract background iron overload is a major problem in patients with major thalassemia. an effective and safe iron chelator protocol with high compliance rate plays an important role in treatment of these patients. this study was done to assess the efficacy and safety of the sequential deferoxamine and deferasirox protocol in major thalassemia patients in khuzestan province, iran. material and...

A set of simulations demonstrate that recurrent networks can exhibit generalization by abstraction from extremely sparse but structurally homogenous symbolic data. By cascading two recurrent networks – feeding the second network with discretized hidden states of the first – it is also possible to generalize according to complex structure. By automatic discretization the cascaded architecture as...

Feeding difficulties and feeding disorders are a commonly occurring problem for young children, particularly children with developmental delays including autism. Behavior analytic interventions for the treatment of feeding difficulties oftentimes include escape extinction as a primary component of treatment. The use of escape extinction, while effective, may be problematic as it is also associa...

Safe and optimal operation of complex production processes is one of the most important research and development problems in process engineering. This problem is the most relevant at the design of the optimal feeding profile of fed-batch chemical reactors due to the nonlinear and unstable dynamical behavior of the processes. This paper shows that how the optimal feeding policy can be determined...