Why a Little Bit Goes a Long Way: Logical Foundations of Scientifically Applicable Mathematics 1

Formalizing Scientifically Applicable Mathematics in a Definitional Framework

In [3] a new framework for formalizing mathematics was developed. The main new features of this framework are that it is based on the usual first-order set theoretical foundations of mathematics (in particular, it is type-free), but it reflects real mathematical practice in making an extensive use of statically defined abstract set terms of the form {x |φ}, in the same way they are used in ordi...

Does a little bit really go a long way? Infection prevention in ambulatory healthcare facilities.

Does a little bit go a long way, as the old saying goes? The origin of the saying "A little bit goes a long way" is unclear. The relevance of the application of this old saying to various settings and situations is equally unclear. Similarly, the relevance to clinical medicine is totally "uncharted territory." In her 2001 hit song "A Little Bit," the pop singer Jessica Simpson sings that "a lit...

A Little Bit of Dalba Goes a Long Way: Dalbavancin Use in a Vulnerable Patient Population

Of Politicians and Technocrats, and Why Global Health Scholars Are Inevitably a Bit of Both: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Search Based Weighted Multi-Bit Flipping Algorithm for High-Performance Low-Complexity Decoding of LDPC Codes

In this paper, two new hybrid algorithms are proposed for decoding Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. Original version of the proposed algorithms named Search Based Weighted Multi Bit Flipping (SWMBF). The main idea of these algorithms is flipping variable multi bits in each iteration, change in which leads to the syndrome vector with least hamming weight. To achieve this, the proposed algo...