The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) convened the FRAX(®) Position Development Conference (PDC) in Bucharest, Romania, on November 14, 2010, following a two-day joint meeting of the ISCD and IOF on the "Interpretation and Use of FRAX(®) in Clinical Practice." These three days of critical discussion and debate, led by a pa...

This paper describes an approach to predict non-verbal cues from speech-related features. Our previous investigations of audiovisual speech showed that there are strong correlations between the two modalities. In this work we developed two models using different kinds of Recurrent Artificial Neural Networks: Elman and NARX, to predict parameters of activity for head motion using linguistic and ...

BACKGROUND There is no well-defined means to identify the level of oral feeding skills (OFS) in preterm infants. OBJECTIVE To determine whether OFS as reflected by the combination of proficiency (PRO, %ml taken during the first 5 min/ml prescribed) and rate of milk transfer (RT, ml/min) correlates with gestational age (GA), oral feeding performance (OT, %ml taken during a feeding/ml prescribe...

Abstract In recent years, both inside and outside France, scholars policymakers have emphasized a small declining French influence on European politics the political direction of Union (EU). By contrast, in 2022, at end President Emmanuel Macron’s first term office, EU increasingly follows preferences ideas. We argue that this renewed clout is due to interplay factors located different levels g...

Bill G. Horne NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 c. Lee Gilest NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, N J 08540 It has recently been shown that gradient descent learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks can perform poorly on tasks that involve long-term dependencies. In this paper we explore this problem for a class of architectures called NARX n...

Agricultural cooperatives around the world are facing major structural challenges as they respond to a more industrialized agriculture, globalization, and freer trade. Co-ops are responding to these changes by merging, by finding new ways of raising capital, and by developing new organizational forms such as New Generation Co-ops. One of the critically important issues co-ops face as they under...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a highly reactive signaling molecule and plays a variety of physiological roles in plants. The research on the application of NO to postharvest preservation of flowers and fruits shows great promise in recent years. However, the physiological mechanism of exogenous NO to affect cut flowers is not very clear, and NO donor treatment protected plants from damage by increasing ...

undoubtedly the developments in arabian countries are one of the most important and influential developments that have occurred in the middle east over the past decades. of course there are widespread differences of opinions in regard of the nature, content and even the title or name of these developments. as a matter of fact some consider it as arab spring, arab developments and others conside...

Background Osteoporosis is a worldwide under diagnosed, and under treated disease, with high risk of fracture, and increased morbidity and mortality (IOF 2015) [1]. There have been large advances in diagnosis, management and prevention of secondary fractures (Kanis et al 2013) [2], (McLellan et al 2004) [3], but in many cases access to specialists is delayed due to healthcare staff having limit...

background: melatonin has receptors in substantia nigra pars compacta (snc) and regulates development of dopaminergic (da) neurons. this study was undertaken to determine ability of melatonin to protect snc dopaminergic neuron loss induced by estrogen deficiency in ovariectomized rats. methods: female rats were randomized into four groups of seven each: control, ethanol sham, ovariectomy (ovx) ...