A nkle arthritis is nine-times less common than hip or knee arthritis [2]. When ankle arthritis does occur, it causes pain and severe disability. Ankle arthritis is as physically debilitating as end stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, cervical spine arthritis, and radiculopathy [5]. The treatment options for severe ankle arthritis have changed during the past 10 to 15 years. Currentl...

We apply the level-3 Reformulation Linearization Technique (RLT3) to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). We then present our experience in calculating lower bounds using an essentially new algorithm, based on this RLT3 formulation. This algorithm is not guaranteed to calculate the RLT3 lower bound exactly, but approximates it very closely and reaches it in some instances. For Nugent problem...

We conducted a retrospective statistical analysis of the Heyman, Saltzman, Whalen 1966 study of 22 stroke patients treated with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2)--13 of them one to five hours post-stroke. We examined patients who received HBO2 treatment within seven hours post-stroke. An exploratory logistic regression analysis examining the influence of time post-stroke, time in chamber and dose of HBO...

An application of functional data analysis (FDA) (Ramsay and Silverman, 2005, Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed. (Springer-Verlag, New York)) for linguistic experimentation is explored. The functional time-registration method provided by FDA is shown to offer novel advantages in the investigation of articulatory timing. Traditionally, articulatory studies examining the effects of linguistic vari...

Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a vascular tumor that was brought to the attention of the medical community over a century ago in a fascinating case series in which purple-coloured nodular skin lesions were observed on five elderly men, with widespread cutaneous and visceral involvement reported in one patient at autopsy (Kaposi, 1872 as cited in Ober, 1988). This ‘Classic’ variant of KS is rare and t...

We investigated whether metrical accentuation has obligatory effects on the kinematics of rhythmic finger tapping. Auditory rhythmic patterns were repeated cyclically, and participants first synchronized with each pattern and then reproduced it 10 times on a MIDI keyboard, which yielded measures of the timing and velocities of key depression and release. Experiment 1 used strongly and weakly me...

T paper proposes and tests variants of GRASP (greedy randomized adaptive search procedure) with path relinking for the three-index assignment problem (AP3). GRASP is a multistart metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. It usually consists of a construction procedure based on a greedy randomized algorithm and of a local search. Path relinking is an intensification strategy that explores tr...

Abstract. This paper describes variants of GRASP (greedy randomized adaptive search procedure) with path relinking for the three index assignment problem (AP3). GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. It usually consists of a construction procedure based on a greedy randomized algorithm and of a local search. Path relinking is an intensification strategy that explor...

As a result of social subordination, female common marmosets undergo suppression of ovulation and inhibition of sexual behaviour. This study examined the possibility that subordination also results in decreased aggressiveness and increased submissiveness towards same-sex strangers. Thirty-two adult females were pre-assigned to eight mixed-sex social groups. The females’ behavioural and adrenoco...

Masculinity is recognized as a social value that regulates how man should or not behave. Those who do meet the ideal characteristics such strong, powerful, dominant, aggressive, and others, in some circumstances, will be considered toxic masculinity. This article aims to explore masculinity traits are presented short film directed by Michael Rohrbaugh entitled American Male (2016). looks at gen...