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https://read.qxmd.com/read/28066695/some-isomorphic-properties-of-m-polar-fuzzy-graphs-with-applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ganesh Ghorai, Madhumangal Pal
The theory of graphs are very useful tool in solving the combinatorial problems in different areas of computer science and computational intelligence systems. In this paper, we present a frame work to handle m -polar fuzzy information by combining the theory of m -polar fuzzy sets with graphs. We introduce the notion of weak self complement m -polar fuzzy graphs and establish a necessary condition for m -polar fuzzy graph to be weak self complement. Some properties of self complement and weak self complement m -polar fuzzy graphs are discussed...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053835/ontology-construction-and-application-in-practice-case-study-of-health-tourism-in-thailand
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chantana Chantrapornchai, Chidchanok Choksuchat
Ontology is one of the key components in semantic webs. It contains the core knowledge for an effective search. However, building ontology requires the carefully-collected knowledge which is very domain-sensitive. In this work, we present the practice of ontology construction for a case study of health tourism in Thailand. The whole process follows the METHONTOLOGY approach, which consists of phases: information gathering, corpus study, ontology engineering, evaluation, publishing, and the application construction...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053834/phenolics-profile-and-anti-proliferative-activity-of-cyphomandra-betacea-fruit-in-breast-and-liver-cancer-cells
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maisarah Abdul Mutalib, Faisal Ali, Fauziah Othman, Rajesh Ramasamy, Asmah Rahmat
BACKGROUND: Cyphomandra betacea (C. betacea) belongs to the Solanaceae family. This study was aimed to evaluate the anti-proliferative of C.betacea crude extract against selected cancer cell lines (breast and liver cancer) and to identify the polyphenolics profile (phenolic acids and flavonoids) of C. betacea fruits. Anti-proliferative effect of the extracts was examined using MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay, followed by cell morphology analysis using acridine orange and propidium iodide double staining...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053833/what-makes-it-likeable-a-study-on-the-reactions-to-messages-in-a-digital-social-network-the-case-of-facebook-in-farsi
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shaho Sabbar, Daiwon Hyun
BACKGROUND: After a piece of information is put into a network, its fate depends on the behaviors of the nodes of the network; nodes that are equipped with the hardware and software of the age of information and are more powerful than any time in the past. This study suggests that a useful research for communication, marketing and advertising would be one that looks for patterns in the reactions of the nodes toward different pieces of information. RESULTS: This study has used Facebook to see how people have reacted to different types of messages in terms of liking, sharing and commenting...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053832/effect-of-various-anticoagulants-on-the-bioanalysis-of-drugs-in-rat-blood-implication-for-pharmacokinetic-studies-of-anticancer-drugs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Preeti Kulkarni, Ashwin Karanam, Murari Gurjar, Sagar Dhoble, Arvind B Naik, Bhaskar H Vidhun, Vikram Gota
BACKGROUND: Pharmacokinetic studies are vital in development and optimization of drugs. While blood samples can be collected either in EDTA, heparin or citrate containing tubes for the estimation of drug levels in plasma, EDTA tubes are more commonly used. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of anticoagulants on bioanalysis of drugs. Six drugs used extensively in cancer therapy were selected. Albino wistar rats (N = 6 per drug) were dosed with one of the following drugs intraperitoneally-pemetrexed (50 mg/kg), imatinib (50 mg/kg), erlotinib (25 mg/kg), meropenem (60 mg/kg), 6-mercaptopurine (20 mg/kg) and voriconazole (6 mg/kg)...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053831/an-emg-based-feature-extraction-method-using-a-normalized-weight-vertical-visibility-algorithm-for-myopathy-and-neuropathy-detection
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Patcharin Artameeyanant, Sivarit Sultornsanee, Kosin Chamnongthai
BACKGROUND: Electromyography (EMG) signals recorded from healthy, myopathic, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) subjects are nonlinear, non-stationary, and similar in the time domain and the frequency domain. Therefore, it is difficult to classify these various statuses. METHODS: This study proposes an EMG-based feature extraction method based on a normalized weight vertical visibility algorithm (NWVVA) for myopathy and ALS detection. In this method, sampling points or nodes based on sampling theory are extracted, and features are derived based on relations among the vertical visibility nodes with their amplitude differences as weights...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053830/volumetric-medical-image-compression-using-3d-listless-embedded-block-partitioning
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ranjan K Senapati, P M K Prasad, Gandharba Swain, T N Shankar
This paper presents a listless variant of a modified three-dimensional (3D)-block coding algorithm suitable for medical image compression. A higher degree of correlation is achieved by using a 3D hybrid transform. The 3D hybrid transform is performed by a wavelet transform in the spatial dimension and a Karhunen-Loueve transform in the spectral dimension. The 3D transformed coefficients are arranged in a one-dimensional (1D) fashion, as in the hierarchical nature of the wavelet-coefficient distribution strategy...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053829/influence-of-particle-size-on-non-darcy-seepage-of-water-and-sediment-in-fractured-rock
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yu Liu, Shuncai Li
Surface water, groundwater and sand can flow into mine goaf through the fractured rock, which often leads to water inrush and quicksand movement. It is important to study the mechanical properties of water and sand in excavations sites under different conditions and the influencing factors of the water and sand seepage system. The viscosity of water-sand mixtures under different particle sizes, different concentration was tested based on the relationship between the shear strain rate and the surface viscosity...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053828/characterization-of-saliva-microbiota-s-functional-feature-based-on-metagenomic-sequencing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fang Yang, Kang Ning, Xiaowei Zeng, Qian Zhou, Xiaoquan Su, Xiao Yuan
OBJECTIVE: Saliva, a mixture of exocrinally secretive fluids, amounts to ~1.5 L daily and harbors numerous microbial inhabitants. However, except the organismal structure of saliva microbiota, the functional profile of saliva microbiota remain elusive. METHODS: Here we used metagenomic sequencing to experimentally reconstruct the global genomic profile of saliva by sequencing total saliva DNA from two healthy and two caries-active (DMFT ≧ 6) adults. RESULTS: We found that saliva microbiota, representing 30-60% of total saliva DNA in our samples, might carry functional signatures that were site-specific and caries-state-specific...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28053827/are-the-expected-benefits-of-requirements-reuse-hampered-by-distance-an-experiment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Juan M Carrillo de Gea, Joaquín Nicolás, José L Fernández-Alemán, Ambrosio Toval, Ali Idri
BACKGROUND: Software development processes are often performed by distributed teams which may be separated by great distances. Global software development (GSD) has undergone a significant growth in recent years. The challenges concerning GSD are especially relevant to requirements engineering (RE). Stakeholders need to share a common ground, but there are many difficulties as regards the potentially variable interpretation of the requirements in different contexts. We posit that the application of requirements reuse techniques could alleviate this problem through the diminution of the number of requirements open to misinterpretation...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28050334/twelfth-degree-spline-with-application-to-quadrature
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
P O Mohammed, F K Hamasalh
In this paper existence and uniqueness of twelfth degree spline is proved with application to quadrature. This formula is in the class of splines of degree 12 and continuity order [Formula: see text] that matches the derivatives up to order 6 at the knots of a uniform partition. Some mistakes in the literature are pointed out and corrected. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability and efficiency of the new method.
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28028493/mutation-detection-in-chinese-patients-with-familial-hypercholesterolemia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ran Du, Liang-Liang Fan, Min-Jie Lin, Zhi-Jian He, Hao Huang, Ya-Qin Chen, Jing-Jing Li, Kun Xia, Shui-Ping Zhao, Rong Xiang
BACKGROUND: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the first molecularly and clinically characterized genetic disease of lipid metabolism. It is an autosomal dominant disorder with significantly elevated levels of total cholesterol and low density of lipoprotein cholesterol in serum, which would lead to extensive xanthomas and premature coronary heart disease. Mutations in low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 and Apo lipoprotein B-100 (APOB) have been identified to be the underlying cause of this disease...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28028492/traveling-wave-solutions-of-the-time-delayed-generalized-burgers-type-equations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bo Tang, Yingzhe Fan, Xuemin Wang, Jixiu Wang, Shijun Chen
BACKGROUND: Recently, nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations have received considerable interest due to their numerous applications in the areas of physics, biology, chemistry and so on. METHODS: In this paper, we obtain traveling wave solutions by using the extended [Formula: see text]-expansion method. RESULTS: Based on the method, we get many solutions of the time-delayed generalized Burgers-type equations. CONCLUSIONS: The results reveal that the extended [Formula: see text]-expansion method is direct, effective and can be used for many other nonlinear time-delayed evolution equations...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28028491/cryptococcal-meningitis-associated-with-increased-adenosine-deaminase-in-the-cerebrospinal-fluid
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuji Tanaka, Kazuo Satomi
INTRODUCTION: Clinically, increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) adenosine deaminase (ADA) level is an important diagnostic clue of tuberculous meningitis. However, increased CSF ADA level can be caused by other neurological diseases. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with cryptococcal meningitis presented with increased ADA level of the CSF. In parallel with her recovery, the ADA level of CSF decreased steadily. This is the first case described the chronological change in CSF ADA level of the patient with cryptococcal meningitis in detail...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28028490/discussion-on-software-aging-management-of-nuclear-power-plant-safety-digital-control-system
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Huihui Liang, Pengfei Gu, Jianzhong Tang, Weihua Chen, Feng Gao
Managing the aging of digital control systems ensures that nuclear power plant systems are in adequate safety margins during their life cycles. Software is a core component in the execution of control logic and differs between digital and analog control systems. The hardware aging management for the digital control system is similar to that for the analog system, which has matured over decades of study. However, software aging management is still in the exploratory stage. Software aging evaluation is critical given the higher reliability and safety requirements of nuclear power plants...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28028489/biomarkers-for-diagnosis-of-sepsis-in-patients-with-systemic-inflammatory-response-syndrome-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yong Liu, Jun-Huan Hou, Qing Li, Kui-Jun Chen, Shu-Nan Wang, Jian-Min Wang
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is one of the most common diseases that seriously threaten human health. Although a large number of markers related to sepsis have been reported in the last two decades, the diagnostic accuracy of these biomarkers remains unclear due to the lack of similar baselines among studies. Therefore, we conducted a large systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the diagnostic value of biomarkers from studies that included non-infectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome patients as a control group...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28018798/exact-solutions-for-unsteady-free-convection-flow-over-an-oscillating-plate-due-to-non-coaxial-rotation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ahmad Qushairi Mohamad, Ilyas Khan, Zulkhibri Ismail, Sharidan Shafie
BACKGROUND: Non-coaxial rotation has wide applications in engineering devices, e.g. in food processing such as mixer machines and stirrers with a two-axis kneader, in cooling turbine blades, jet engines, pumps and vacuum cleaners, in designing thermal syphon tubes, and in geophysical flows. Therefore, this study aims to investigate unsteady free convection flow of viscous fluid due to non-coaxial rotation and fluid at infinity over an oscillating vertical plate with constant wall temperature...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28018797/long-memory-mean-and-volatility-models-of-platinum-and-palladium-price-return-series-under-heavy-tailed-distributions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Edmore Ranganai, Sihle Basil Kubheka
South Africa is a cornucopia of the platinum group metals particularly platinum and palladium. These metals have many unique physical and chemical characteristics which render them indispensable to technology and industry, the markets and the medical field. In this paper we carry out a holistic investigation on long memory (LM), structural breaks and stylized facts in platinum and palladium return and volatility series. To investigate LM we employed a wide range of methods based on time domain, Fourier and wavelet based techniques while we attend to the dual LM phenomenon using ARFIMA-FIGARCH type models, namely FIGARCH, ARFIMA-FIEGARCH, ARFIMA-FIAPARCH and ARFIMA-HYGARCH models...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28018796/an-empirical-research-on-evaluating-banks-credit-assessment-of-corporate-customers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sang-Bing Tsai, Guodong Li, Chia-Huei Wu, Yuxiang Zheng, Jiangtao Wang
BACKGROUND: Under the rapid change of the global financial environment, the risk control of the credit granting is viewed as the foremost task to each bank. With the impact one by one from financial crisis and European debt crisis, the steady bank business is also facing the severe challenge. Banks approve the credits for their customers and then make money from the interest. CASE PRESENTATION: Credit granting is not only the primary job but also the main source of income...
2016: SpringerPlus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28018795/nephrotoxicity-of-methadone-a-systematic-review
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REVIEW
Samira Alinejad, Kazem Ghaemi, Mohammad Abdollahi, Omid Mehrpour
BACKGROUND: Methadone is commonly administered for chronic pain relief and treatment of opioid dependence. Concurrent with its increased consumption, toxicities and fatalities have increased. One of the adverse effects of opioid analgesics, including methadone, is that of nephrotoxicity. Opioids can have an effect on renal function through several different mechanisms. METHODS: We searched common bibliographical databases for the terms methadone, toxicity, poisoning, kidney, renal, and nephrotoxicity and summarize our findings in this review...
2016: SpringerPlus
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