Spontaneous bacterial (SBP) and spontaneous fungal peritonitis (SFP) can be a life-threatening infection in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) and ascites. One of the possible mechanisms of developing SBP is bacterial translocation. Although the number of polymorphonuclear cells in the culture of ascitic fluid is diagnostic for SBP, secondary bacterial peritonitis is necessary to exclude. The s...

Sampled Fictitious Play (SFP) is a recently proposed iterative learning mechanism for computing Nash equilibria of non-cooperative games. For games of identical interests, every limit point of the sequence of mixed strategies induced by the empirical frequencies of best response actions that players in SFP play is a Nash equilibrium. Because discrete optimization problems can be viewed as games...

The paper is in two parts. In Part I we describe a construction of a certain kind of subdirect product of a family of rings. We endow the index set of the family with the partial order structure of an SFP domain, as introduced by Plotkin, and provide a commuting system of homomorphisms between those rings whose indices are related in the ordering. We then take the subdirect product consisting o...

and Applied Analysis 3 in medical image reconstruction. A number of image reconstruction problems can be formulated as the SFP; see, for example, 11 and the references therein. Recently, it is found that the SFP can also be applied to study intensity-modulated radiation therapy IMRT 12–14 . In the recent past, a wide variety of iterative methods have been used in signal processing and image rec...

We study the single transverse spin asymmetry for the inclusive pion production in the nucleon-nucleon collision, pp → πX, based on the twist-3 mechanism in the collinear factorization. We derive the soft-fermion-pole (SFP) contribution to the twist-3 single-spin-dependent cross section associated with the twist-3 quark-gluon correlation functions in the polarized nucleon. We find that the SFP ...

seed weight (sw) in oilseed rape (brassica napus l.) is determined during the seed filling period (sfp). a great proportion of variation in sw is associated with environmental conditions in this period. to quantify factors determining sw in open pollinated (op) and hybrid cultivars of oilseed rape, 12 field experiments were conducted at agricultural research station of gonbad, iran, during 2000...

There is a general consensus that Food for Education (FFE) programs increase primary school participation. Although this view is widely held, there is limited causal evidence to support it, making it difficult to anticipate the size of expected impacts. Moreover, little is known about how the design of FFE programs affects schooling outcomes. This paper presents evidence of the impacts of alter...

We extend the concept of two-level fingerprinting codes, introduced by Anthapadmanabhan and Barg (2009) in context of traceability (TA) codes [1], to other types of fingerprinting codes, namely identifiable parent property (IPP) codes, secure-frameproof (SFP) codes, and frameproof (FP) codes. We define and propose the first explicit non-trivial construction for two-level IPP, SFP and FP codes.

Background: Injectable dermal fillers are commonly used by physicians in the treatment of the signs of aging. The most commonly used dermal filler is hyaluronic acid. Skinfill plus (SFP) belongs to the family of monophasic monodensified fillers. In this post-marketing clinical study, we have evaluated the efficacy of SFP for the treatment of facial aging. Methods: The study enrolled 109 patient...