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Recognition of Odia Handwritten Digits using Gradient based Feature Extraction Method and Clonal Selection Algorithm
This article aims to recognize Odia handwritten digits using gradient-based feature extraction techniques and Clonal Selection Algorithm-based (CSA) multilayer artificial neural network (MANN) classifier. For the extraction of...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Male sex pheromone components in Heliconius butterflies released by the androconia affect female choice.
Kathy Darragh, Sohini Vanjari, Florian Mann, Maria F Gonzalez-Rojas, Colin R Morrison, Camilo Salazar, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Richard M Merrill, W Owen McMillan, Stefan Schulz, Chris D Jiggins
Mar 05, 2018
Sex-specific pheromones are known to play an important role in butterfly courtship, and may influence both individual reproductive success and reproductive isolation between species. Extensive ecological, behavioural and genetic...
The Edgeworth Cube
Social peace is an asset to every society. Its absence endangers the well-being and the safety of the population and the stability of states. In order to better understand the interdependencies of poverty, social peace and...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
How Can Accessibility for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Players be Improved in Video Games?
This research investigates how the accessibility of video games can be improved for deaf and hearing-impaired players. The journal is divided into several areas, first, examining the use of subtitles and closed captions used in...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Creating a Functional Interdependency Map for Supporting the “Act of Improvement” in Business Process Improvement Projects
Business process improvement (BPI) is of high priority for practitioners. But especially the most value-adding phase in a BPI project, namely the “act of improvement”, is insufficiently supported despite the many existing...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Beliefs About Medicines Predict Side-Effects of Placebo Modafinil
BACKGROUND: Patients receiving placebo in clinical trials often report side-effects (nocebo effects), but contributing factors are still poorly understood. PURPOSE: Using a sham trial of the cognition-enhancing "smart pill"...
Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) Medication beliefs Necessity Concerns Framework (NCF) Nocebo Nocebo mechanisms Open-label placebo /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3200 name=General Psychology /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2738 name=Psychiatry and Mental health /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Student perspectives of preparedness characteristics for clinical learning within a fully distributed veterinary teaching model
Khalil Saadeh, Joanna B. Aitken, Sharmini Julita Paramasivam, Peter Cockcroft, Kamalan Jeevaratnam
May 20, 2021
The transition into the clinical environment is challenging and associated with significant stress and anxiety. This study aimed to examine the perspectives of students on the characteristics important for preparedness for...
Iterative and Semi-Supervised Design of Chatbots Using Interactive Clustering
Chatbots represent a promising tool to automate the processing of requests in a business context. However, despite major progress in natural language processing technologies, constructing a dataset deemed relevant by business...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems scores relating to pain following the incorporation of clinical pharmacists into patient education prior to joint replacement surgery
Background: Pharmacist involvement has been shown to improve various aspects of patient care. Patients undergoing knee and hip replacement surgery generally experience post-operative pain and discomfort. Pain control can impact...
Outcome Assessment Patient Reported Outcome Measures Pharmaceutical Services Pharmacy Administration, Policy and Regulation
Published by: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Digitally Supported Participation Processes and Tools to Promote Gender-Responsive Public Spaces
Flora Fessler, Florian Reinwald, Roswitha Weichselbaumer, Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer, Jana Wentz
Jan 01, 2024
Planning is faced with the challenge of designing public open spaces that meet the diverse needs of everyday life. Gender-sensitive planning can facilitate the development of gender-responsive public spaces by considering the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Student perspectives of preparedness characteristics for clinical learning within a fully distributed veterinary teaching model.
Khalil Saadeh, Joanna B Aitken, Sharmini Julita Paramasivam, Peter Cockcroft, Kamalan Jeevaratnam
Jun 13, 2021
The transition into the clinical environment is challenging and associated with significant stress and anxiety. This study aimed to examine the perspectives of students on the characteristics important for preparedness for...
The Effects of Asset Allocation and Active Management on Total Return of Managed Funds
Florian Halili
Jan 01, 0001
Portfolio managers are charged with maximizing returns for a given level of risk. There are practical problems that arise in creating an efficient portfolio and maintaining a target level of risk and return. This paper will...
portfolio policy Asset Allocation risk active management investment rebalancing security selection Business Economics Finance and Financial Management Portfolio and Security Analysis Social and Behavioral Sciences Strategic Management Policy
Published by: Ursinus College
Haematopoietic stem cells in perisinusoidal niches are protected from ageing.
Mehmet Saçma, Johannes Pospiech, Ruzhica Bogeska, Walter de Back, Jan-Philipp Mallm, Vadim Sakk, Karin Soller, Gina Marka, Angelika Vollmer, Rebekah Karns, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Andreas Trumpp, Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Michael D Milsom, Medhanie A Mulaw, Hartmut Geiger, Maria Carolina Florian
Nov 15, 2019
With ageing, intrinsic haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) activity decreases, resulting in impaired tissue homeostasis, reduced engraftment following transplantation and increased susceptibility to diseases. However, whether ageing...
aging Animals Bone Marrow Capillaries Cell Differentiation Cell Division Cell Polarity Cell Tracking Doxycycline Fluorouracil Gene Expression Regulation Genes Reporter Green Fluorescent Proteins Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Hematopoietic Stem Cells Histones Homeostasis Jagged-2 Protein Mice Mice Inbred C57BL Mice Transgenic Myeloablative Agonists Stem Cell Niche
Recommended strategies for the oral administration of paediatric medicines with food and drinks in the context of their biopharmaceutical properties
Objectives
This review focuses on the recommended strategies for the oral administration of paediatric medicines with food in the context of their biopharmaceutical properties.
Key findings
Acceptability of...
This review focuses on the recommended strategies for the oral administration of paediatric medicines with food in the context of their biopharmaceutical properties.
Key findings
Acceptability of...
The global prevalence and genetic spectrum of lysosomal acid lipase deficiency
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D) is an autosomal recessive condition that may present in a mild form (cholesteryl ester storage disease [CESD]), which mimics non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)....
Unmet needs in pediatric NAFLD research
Pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common disorder that has complex pathophysiology and unquantified clinical significance. Though there have been major advances in the field, there is much yet to be...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease fatty liver disease hepatology Microbiome Pediatrics Adolescent Biomedical Research Cardiovascular Diseases Child Child Preschool Dysbiosis Gastrointestinal Microbiome Host Microbial Interactions Humans Infant Infant Newborn Metabolic Syndrome non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Risk Assessment
A semigroup approach to the justification of kinetic theory
This paper develops a method to rigorously show the validity of continuum description for the deterministic dynamics of many interacting particles with random initial data. We consider a hard sphere flow where particles are...
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