ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA

Data on two vascular plant species new to Russian flora and other 32 notable regional records made in seven regions of European Russia (Vologda Region, Kostroma Region, Leningrad Region, Pskov Region, Yaroslavl Region, Saint-Petersburg and Udmurt Republic) are given.The presented material is derived from the floristic inventories conducted in 2006-

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Role of transfer functions in PSO to select diagnostic attributes for chronic disease prediction: An experimental study

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a classic and popularly used meta-heuristic algorithm in many real-life optimization problems due to its less computational complexity and simplicity.The binary version of PSO, known as BPSO, is used to solve binary optimization problems, such as feature selection.Like other meta-heuristic optimization technique

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Surgical outcomes of cervical myelopathy due to ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament: Anterior decompression and fusion versus posterior laminoplasty

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare the surgical outcomes of anterior decompression and fusion (ADF) with that of posterior laminoplasty (LAMP) for cervical myelopathy caused by ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL).Methods: We retrospectively assessed the medical records of patients who underwent surgery for cervi

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