Expediente, n. 25, 2008

UTMS 2008 – 21 July 25 , 2008 Discontinuous Galerkin FEM

As a discontinuous Galerkin FEM, we propose a formulation based on Tong’s hybrid displacement method and the stabilization technique, and develop polygonal elements for linear static plane stress problems. The basic ideas are the introduction of inter-element displacements and the use of stabilization terms. Here we only present polygonal elements with polynomial approximation functions. That i...

Bayesian Shrinkage Variable Selection April 25 , 2008

We introduce a new Bayesian approach to the variable selection problem which we term Bayesian Shrinkage Variable Selection (BSVS ). This approach is inspired by the Relevance Vector Machine (RVM ), which uses a Bayesian hierarchical linear setup to do variable selection and model estimation. RVM is typically applied in the context of kernel regression although it is also suitable in the standar...

N ◦ d’ordre: Année 2008

Vision Recognised Research Group Wednesday 25 Th June 2008

Page 12 Full Member Elucidation of Light Associated Age Related Macular Degeneration Genetic Risk Loci G.J. McKay, G. Silvestri, S. Dasari, U. Chakravarthy,

Measles--United States, January 1-April 25, 2008.

Measles, a highly contagious acute viral disease, can result in serious complications and death. As a result of a successful U.S. vaccination program, measles elimination (i.e., interruption of endemic measles transmission) was declared in the United States in 2000. The number of reported measles cases has declined from 763,094 in 1958 to fewer than 150 cases reported per year since 1997. Durin...