methods this prospective observational study was conducted in a tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit, princess esra hospital, deccan college of medical sciences, hyderabad, telangana, india. consecutive intramural and extramural neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit with the rh-negative mother’s blood group and hyperbilirubinemia were enrolled. neonates born to rh+ve mothers ...

We provide several techniques to extend finite memory determinacy from some restricted class of games played on a finite graph to a larger class. As a particular example, we study energy parity games. First we show that under some general conditions the finite memory determinacy of a class of two-player win/lose games played on finite graphs implies the existence of a Nash equilibrium built fro...

Parity games are a powerful framework widely used to address fundamental questions in computer science. In the basic setting they consist of two-player turn-based games, played on directed graphs, whose nodes are labeled with priorities. Solving such a game can be done in time exponential in the number of the priorities (and polynomial in the number of states) and it is a long-standing open que...

Multi-Edge type Low-Density Parity-Check codes (METLDPC codes) introduced by Richardson and Urbanke are generalized LDPC codes which can be seen as LDPC codes obtained by concatenating several standard (ir)regular LDPC codes. We prove in this paper that MET-LDPC code ensembles possess a certain symmetry with respect to their Average Coset Weight Distributions (ACWD). Using this symmetry, we dri...

Multi-Edge Low-Density Parity-Check Coded Modulation Lei Zhang Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Edward Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2011 A method for designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for bandwidth-efficient high-order coded modulation is proposed. Code structure utilizes the multi-edge-type LDPC code ensemble t...

We study negative-parity baryon spectra in quenched anisotropic lattice QCD. The negative-parity baryons are measured as the parity partner of the ground-state baryons. In addition to the flavor octet and decuplet baryons, we pay much attention to the flavorsinglet negative-parity baryon as a three-quark state and compare it with the Λ(1405) baryon. Numerical results of the flavor octet and dec...

We describe a parallel algorithm for solving parity games, with applications in, e.g., modal μ-calculus model checking with arbitrary alternations, and (branching) bisimulation checking. The algorithm is based on Jurdzinski’s Small Progress Measures. Actually, this is a class of algorithms, depending on a selection heuristics. Our algorithm operates lock-free, and mostly wait-free (except for i...

Am 13. und 14. Dezember 2007 fand in Hammamet in Tunesien der fünfte „European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems“ (EUMAS 2007) statt. Die Organisatoren (M. Dastani, Universität Utrecht und R. Bordini, Universität Durham) konnten im Hotel ElMouradi rund 90 Teilnehmer begrüßen, von denen viele eine durchaus längere Reise in Kauf nahmen. So kamen Forscher sowohl aus dem europäischen Raum, als auch a...

conclusions increment in the number of parity can lead to decrease antioxidant defense mechanisms in multiparous women and their newborns. so, control of oxidative stress is considered to be beneficial in multiparous women. background parturition has been associated with free radicals, itself linked with poor pregnancy outcome. objectives this study aimed to investigate the relationship between...