Streams and rivers only contain a small proportion of the Earth’s freshwater, but nevertheless harbour much biodiversity. Headwater streams are the most prevalent running water environments, but despite their wide distribution, they are often excluded from important freshwater legislation and national monitoring programmes. This thesis investigated biodiversity patterns of benthic macroinverteb...

We present a correlative study between all unidentified EGRET sources at low Galactic latitudes and the newly discovered pulsars in the released portion of the Parkes multibeam radio survey. We note 14 positional coincidences: eight of these are “Vela-like” pulsars, with relatively small periods, small characteristic ages, and high spin-down luminosities. Three of these coincidences have been i...

This paper addresses the issue of unobserved heterogeneity in film characteristics influence on boxoffice. We argue that the analysis of pooled samples, most common among researchers, does not shed light on underlying segmentations and leads to significantly different estimates obtained by researchers running similar regressions for movie success modeling. For instance, it may be expected that ...

OBJECTIVE To associate the short-term effects of the Handmaster orthosis on disabling symptoms of the affected upper extremity with long-term Handmaster orthosis use after stroke. DESIGN Historic cohort study. PATIENTS Patients with chronic stroke. METHODS The Modified Ashworth Scale (0-5) for wrist (primary outcome) and elbow flexor hypertonia, visual analogue scale (0-10) for pain, oede...

In this study, we present a general form of nonlinear two-time-scale systems, where singular perturbation analysis is used to separate the dynamics slow and fast subsystems. Machine learning techniques are utilized approximate both Specifically, recurrent neural network (RNN) feedforward (FNN) predict state vectors, respectively. Moreover, investigate generalization error bounds for these machi...

OBJECTIVE To translate the ID Pain scale into Thai and validate this scale. MATERIAL AND METHOD The 6-item ID Pain scale was translated into Thai. The final version was tested in 100 patients. Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive validity were calculated. RESULTS Twenty-four patients were neuropathic, 49 were nociceptive and 27 were mixed pain. Forty-six patients have chronic pain. Seve...