BACKGROUND Because different groups of people with low back pain (LBP) engage in different tasks, their lumbopelvic-hip complex may move in different ways in those groups. The purpose of this study was to quantify the differences in lumbopelvic movement pattern during the passive hip external rotation (PHER) test in LBP patients with and without rotational demand activities (RDA). MATERIAL AN...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Osteopenia and increased risk for fractures in IBD result from several factors. AIM OF THE STUDY To investigate the dietary intake of calcium in IBD patients. METHODS A 22-item quantitative validated frequency food questionnaire was used for quantifying dietary calcium in relation to gender and age, in 187 IBD patients, 420 normal- and 276 diseased controls. STATISTICAL ...

This paper presents the Remote Device Access (RDA) package developed atCERNintheframework of the joint PS/SL Controls Middleware project. The package design reflects the Accelerator Device Model inwhichdevices,namedentitiesinthecontrolsystem, canbecontrolledviaproperties.RDAimplementsthis model in a distributed environment with devices residinginserversthatcanrunanywhereinthecontrols network. I...

We provide algebraic simplifications for the redundancy analysis (RDA) eigenvalue and the canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) eigenvalue in the special case of permanent plots sampled twice. The indices for RDA and CCA are interrelated and are intuitively interpretable. These simplifications also apply to simple split-plot designs and to a balanced design with two independent samples.

Cloud computing has emerged as a computational paradigm and an alternative to the conventional computing with the aim of providing reliable, resilient infrastructure, and with high quality of services for cloud users in both academic and business environments. However, the outsourced data in the cloud and the computation results are not always trustworthy because of the lack of physical possess...

Recurrent Neural Networks architectures excel at processing sequences by modelling dependencies over different timescales. The recently introduced Recurrent Weighted Average (RWA) unit captures long term dependencies far better than an LSTM on several challenging tasks. The RWA achieves this by applying attention to each input and computing a weighted average over the full history of its comput...

In Mongolia, drought is a major natural disaster that can influence and devastate large regions, reduce livestock production, cause economic damage, and accelerate desertification in association with destructive human activities. The objective of this article is to determine the optimal satellite-derived drought indices for accurate and real-time expression of grassland drought in Mongolia. Fir...

Some recent philosophical debate about persistence has focussed on an argument against perdurantism that discusses rotating perfectly homogeneous discs (the ‘rotating discs argument’; RDA). The argument has been mostly discussed by metaphysicians, though it appeals to ideas from classical mechanics, especially about rotation. In contrast, I assess the RDA from the perspective of the philosophy ...

BACKGROUND We investigated the effects of dietary calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) intakes on cardiovascular disease risks in older patients with diabetes. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 197 patients with type 2 diabetes aged 65 years and above were recruited. The 24-h dietary recalls and 1-week self-reported typical dietary intake patterns were collected. The Ca and Mg intakes of <67%...