BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Lung sound analysis (LSA) has been reported to be useful for predicting airway obstruction and inflammation in patients with bronchial asthma. Objectives: We examined whether the exhalation-to-inhalation sound pressure ratio in the middle frequency range (200-400 Hz) (E/I MF) is useful for monitoring therapy in patients with asthma. METHODS The study population compri...

BACKGROUNDS AND AIM Current assessment of pre-operative liver function relies upon biochemical blood tests and histology but these only indirectly measure liver function. Mitochondrial function (MF) analysis allows direct measurement of cellular metabolic function and may provide an additional index of hepatic health. Conventional MF analysis requires substantial tissue samples (>100 mg) obtain...

We consider a preconditioned Krylov subspace iterative algorithm presented by Faul et al. (IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (2005) 25, 1—24) for computing the coefficients of a radial basis function interpolant over N data points. This preconditioned Krylov iteration has been demonstrated to be extremely robust to the distribution of the points and the iteration rapidly convergent. However, th...

For a regularly converging-in-C series A(z)=?n=1?anf(?nz), where f is an entire transcendental function, the asymptotic behavior of function Mf?1(MA(r)), Mf(r)=max{|f(z)|:|z|=r}, investigated. It proven that, under certain conditions on functions f, ?, and coefficients an, equality limr?+??(Mf?1(MA(r)))?(r)=1 correct. A similar result obtained for Laplace–Stiltjes-type integral I(r)=?0?a(x)f(rx...

Since the major review by Scalo (1986), significant progress has been achieved in constraining the mass function (MF) of low-mass stars. The break-throughs which today allow a much better understanding of the stellar luminosity function (LF) and the underlying MF are documented here and the resulting MF for Galactic field stars is confronted with microlensing data, the chemical enrichment histo...

in this paper, we introduce a takagi-sugeno (ts) fuzzy model which is derived from a typical multi-layer perceptron neural network (mlp nn). at first, it is shown that the considered mlp nn can be interpreted as a variety of ts fuzzy model. it is discussed that the utilized membership function (mf) in such ts fuzzy model, despite its flexible structure, has some major restrictions. after modify...

In this study, we are mainly interested in error estimates of interpolation, using smooth radial basis functions such as multiquadrics. The current theories of radial basis function interpolation provide optimal error bounds when the basis function φ is smooth and the approximand f is in a certain reproducing kernel Hilbert space Fφ. However, since the space Fφ is very small when the function φ...

BACKGROUND Coadministration of mometasone furoate (MF) and formoterol fumarate (F) produces additive effects for improving symptoms and lung function and reduces exacerbations in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study assessed the relative systemic exposure to MF and characterized the pharmacokinetics of MF and formoterol in patients with COPD. ...