background gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is a common problem seen in pediatrics and adolescents. the bravo tm ph monitoring system is a capsule that detects and quantifies the severity of reflux disease. this test is also valuable for evaluation of patients with extra-gastrointestinal manifestations of gerd such as asthma, chronic cough, hoarseness, aspiration pneumonia, and pre/post f...

The deterministic coalition game theory is based on the presumption that all expected incomes of coalitions and individual players are exactly known even befor the bargaining process If we leave this presumption then we extend the original gamemodel into the fuzzy coalition game with vague i e fuzzy pay o s The vagueness of the pay o s leads to vagueness of some other concepts and prop erties l...

We describe the development of a tool called MDM for the management of multiple models and the translation of database schemes This tool can be at the basis of an integrated CASE environment sup porting the analysis and design of information systems that allows di er ent representations for the same data schemes We rst present a graph theoretic framework that allows us to formally investigate d...

Retinoic acid, retinol, metinylacetate, and retinal induced activities of lysosomal enzymes, such as lysozyme, acid pro tease, and acid phosphatase, in mouse myeloid leukemia cells (Ml ), while the pynidyl analog of metinoicacid had no effect. Retinoic acid was the most potent inducer of lysosomal enzyme activities. The induction of lysozyme activity by retinoic acid was inhibited by treatment ...

This paper generalizes the concepts of rough membership functions in pattern classification tasks to fuzz rough membership functions. Unlike the rough membersgp value of a pattern, which is sensitive only towards the rough uncertainty associated with the pattern, the fuzzy-rough membership value of the pattern signlfies the rou h uncertainty as well as the . fuzz uncertainty associated wig it. ...

Abstra ct. Stephen wolfram int roduced the use of cellula r au tom ata. as mod els of complex sys tems and proposed a clas sification of th ese automata based on th eir st a t ist ical ly observed behavior. We invest igate various properti es of these classes; in part icular, we as k wheth er certain prop erties are effective, and we obtain several somewhat surpri sing result s. For examp le, w...

Downlo roRNAs (miRNA), a class of natural RNA-interfering agents, have recently been identified as attractive s for therapeutic intervention. The rationale for developing miRNA therapeutics is based on the premise berrantly expressed miRNAs play key roles in the development of human disease, and that correcting miRNA deficiencies by either antagonizing or restoring miRNA function may provide a ...

Examination of a series of substituted bis(thiosemicarbazonato) copper(ll) complexes shows that their reaction with Ehrlich ascites tumor cells can be understood in terms of the relative reactivity of the complexes with sulfhydryl groups. In general, the order of reactivity of the complexes correlates directly with their respective degrees of cytotoxicity and ability to inhibit DNA synthesis an...

Conditional independence and Markov prop­ erties are powerful tools allowing expression of multidimensional probability distributions by means of low-dimensional ones. As mul­ tidimensional possibilistic models have been studied for several years, the demand for analogous tools in possibility theory seems to be quite natural. This paper is intended to be a promotion of de Cooman's measure­ theo...