Making needles less prickly

Making Network Interfaces Less Peripheral

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Making Markov chains less lazy

The mixing time of an ergodic, reversible Markov chain can be bounded in terms of the eigenvalues of the chain: specifically, the second-largest eigenvalue and the smallest eigenvalue. It has become standard to focus only on the secondlargest eigenvalue, by making the Markov chain “lazy”. (A lazy chain does nothing at each step with probability at least 1 2 , and has only nonnegative eigenvalue...

Prickly pear

Prickly Heat

ein, salicylic acid, and perchloride o further bears out this view. . naoU. Synonyms.?Lichen tropicus, sue a l?sa, milaria rubra vel papulosa. , -^..1 by Definition.?The disease is cha[act^ S s00n jhe occurrence of small white vesic: es become ruptured, by redness of tl ^ an <}nd by the formation of scales. ^ staohv'nfection of the sweat-gland ducts > ? tjie [ococcus. The rash usually aPPepSers...

Needles, needles, everywhere!

A 55-YR-OLD man with endstage renal disease presented for emergent removal of an infected arteriovenous dialysis graft. This patient had multisystemic disease, including hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus, cardiomyopathy, and atrial fibrillation. He also had a history of left internal jugular thrombosis and right common carotid septic pseudoaneurysm, corrected via partial sternotomy. A c...