Background Carotid artery stiffness is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia, however, the underlying mechanism remains unknown. We examined association of carotid cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) markers, impairment, dementia its subtypes, as well performance. Method In this case-control study, 272 subjects from a memory clinic underwent physical medical evaluation along ultras...

The psychophysical relationship between the magnitude of pressure on thirteen test locations of twenty healthy subjects' feet with four probe areas at three indentation speeds and the corresponding perceived sensations were analyzed. The dependency of pressure pain thresholds (PPT) on area, A, and speed, v, can be mathematically modeled in the form, PPTi = [ai + bLn(v)]Aβi = 1,2...13 where β an...

Similarly, let L p T be the Banach space ofT-periodic functions f such that f |Ω×(0,T) ∈ Lp(Ω× (0,T)), equipped with the norm ‖ f ‖Lp T := ‖ f |Ω×(0,T)‖Lp(Ω×(0,T)). Finally, let CT be the space of continuous and T-periodic functions onΩ×R provided with the L∞-norm. For the whole paper, we fix v,s ∈ (1,∞] such that N/2v + 1/s < 1, s > 2. Let {ai j} and {bj}, 1 ≤ i, j ≤ N , be two families of fun...

Microbacterium strain AI-S262(T) was isolated from the rhizoplane of neem seedlings in the Botanical garden of Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, and subjected to phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genetic characterization. Cells of this strain were Gram-stain-positive, motile, non-spore-forming, short rods and formed light-yellow-pigmented colonies on nutrient agar. Strain AI-S2...

We consider the first-passage time problem for Feller-type diffusion process, having infinitesimal drift B1(x,t)=α(t)x+β(t) and variance B2(x,t)=2r(t)x, defined in space state [0,+∞), with α(t)∈R, β(t)&gt;0, r(t)&gt;0 continuous functions. For time-homogeneous case, some relations between densities of Feller process Wiener Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes are discussed. The asymptotic behavior dens...

Heat stress has negative effects on pregnancy rates of lactating dairy cattle. There are genetic differences in tolerance to heat stress; Bos taurus indicus (B. t. indicus) cattle and embryos are more thermotolerant than Bos taurus taurus (B. t. taurus). In the present study, the effects of sire and sire breed on conception and embryonic/fetal loss rates of lactating Holstein cows during the Br...

For a vertex and edge weighted (VEW) graph G with weight function fG let Wα,β(G)=∑{u,v}⊆V(G)[αfG(u)×fG(v)+β(fG(u)+fG(v))]dG(u,v) where, α,β∈ℝ dG(u,v) denotes the distance, minimum sum of weights across all paths connecting u,v∈V(G). Assume T is VEW tree, e∈ E(T) fails. If we reconnect two components T−e new ϵ≠e such that, Wα,β(Tϵ\e=T−e+ϵ) minimum, then ϵ called best switch (BS) e w.r.t. Wα,β. W...

For positive integers k, ` and n let N`(n, k) = {a = (a1, . . . , an) : ai ∈ {0, 1, . . . , k}, i = 1, . . . , n,∑ ai = `}. A family F ⊆ N`(n, k) is called t-intersecting if for all a, b ∈ F there exist t coordinates i1, . . . , it such that ai j , bi j ≥ 1 holds for j = 1, . . . , t . Define M`(n, k, t) = max{|F | : F ⊆ N`(n, k),F is t-intersecting}. N`(n, k) can be viewed as the `-th level of...