OBJECTIVE To evaluate the inter-rater reliability between patient and health care provider of the indicator plaster neuropad (IPN) in the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy and the feasibility of the IPN. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 156 patients with diabetes were examined. At the same visit, the IPN was evaluated by the health care provider. Afterward, the IPN with written instruc...

I review the progress in research on Intracluster Planetary Nebulae (IPN). Hundreds of IPN candidates have now been found in the Virgo and Fornax galaxy clusters, and searches of two nearby galaxy groups have made. From the results thus far, approximately 10–20% of all stars in Virgo and Fornax are in an intracluster component, but there are few such stars in galaxy groups. From the spatial dis...

Flatness-based linear output feedback control for disturbance rejection and tracking tasks on a Chua's circuit H. Sira-Ramírez a , A. Luviano-Juárez a b & J. Cortés-Romero a c a CINVESTAV-IPN Av. IPN No. 2508, Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Sección de Mecatrónica b UPIITA-IPN Av. IPN No. 2580, Colonia Barrio la Laguna Ticomán, CP. 07340, México, D.F c Facultad de Ingeniería, Departamento...

Ieroham S. Baruch,1,* Petia Georgieva,2,† Josefina Barrera-Cortes,3,‡ Sebastiao Feyo de Azevedo4,§ 1Department of Automatic Control, CINVESTAV-IPN, Ave. IPN No. 2508, A.P. 14-470, 07360 Mexico D.F., Mexico 2Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal 3Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, CINVESTAV-IPN, Ave. IPN No. 2508, A.P. 14-4...

BACKGROUND Chronic exposure to nicotine elicits physical dependence in smokers, yet the mechanism and neuroanatomical bases for withdrawal symptoms are unclear. As in humans, rodents undergo physical withdrawal symptoms after cessation from chronic nicotine characterized by increased scratching, head nods, and body shakes. RESULTS Here we show that induction of physical nicotine withdrawal sy...

An interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) is any material containing two polymers, each in network form. An IPN is a combination of at least two polymers, and IPN can produce synergistic effect by sharing the properties of both the polymers consequently avoiding the limitations of natural as well as synthetic polymers. The present review discusses various types of IPN. Various methods of prepar...

In this work, gelatin (G)-polyacrylamide (PAAm)-based interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels involving maleic acid (MA) was prepared using by radical polymerization. Full-IPN and semi-IPN were synthesized glutaraldehyde ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) as a crosslinker. The water absorbency of investigated, the values increased with MA G. chemical structures full-IPN tested Four...