Yoga is a mind-body practice that encompasses a system of postures (asana), deep breathing (pranayama), and meditation. Over 36 million Americans practice yoga of which the majority are reproductive-aged women. Literature to support this practice is limited, albeit on the rise. A prenatal yoga practice has been shown to benefit women who suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, low back pain, a...

A Krukenberg tumor is a rare and potentially deadly cause of elevated serum β-hCG as part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. This study aims to describe the unusual case of a 36-year-old woman that presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with back pain and a positive urine pregnancy test. Assessment revealed no intrauterine pregnancy and a small left ovarian cyst. Further investigation showed mod...

Calibration of forcefields for molecular simulation should account for the measurement uncertainty of the reference dataset and for the model inadequacy, i.e., the inability of the force-field/simulation pair to reproduce experimental data within their uncertainty range. In all rigour, the resulting uncertainty of calibrated force-field parameters is a source of uncertainty for simulation predi...

of uniform -excellence. This, of course, indicates editorial expertise of a high order. Naturally the expert in a particular field will find matters of detail to criticize-this is inevitable in a comprehensive textbook. For example (p. 82) osteoblasts are said to increase by mitotic activity. They don't. Osteoblasts are always recruited from neighbouring undifferentiated cells: the latter alone...

Solving Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) generally is computationally intractable. In this paper, we study a special POMDP class, namely informative POMDPs, where each observation provides good albeit incomplete information about world states. We propose two ways to accelerate value iteration algorithm for such POMDPs. First, dynamic programming (DP) updates can be carrie...

We introduce a formalism for computing bond percolation properties of a class of correlated and clustered random graphs. This class of graphs is a generalization of the Configuration Model where nodes of different types are connected via different types of hyperedges, edges that can link more than 2 nodes. We argue that the multitype approach coupled with the use of clustered hyperedges can rep...

We investigate an antiferromagnetic s=1/2 quantum spin system with anisotropic spin exchange on a fractal lattice, the Sierpiński gasket. We introduce a novel approximative numerical method, the configuration selective diagonalization (CSD) and apply this method to a the Sierpiński gasket with N=42. Using this and other methods we calculate ground state energies, spin gap, spin–spin correlation...

The development of immune system modulating agents, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has revolutionized cancer treatment. Nivolumab, a human monoclonal antibody against PD-1, has emerged as an efficient treatment for various malignancies, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, it is associated with important immune related side-effects, attributed to organ-specific i...

Finite-size corrections to scaling of critical correlation lengths and free energies of Ising and three-state Potts ferromagnets are analysed by numerical methods, on strips of width N sites of square, triangular and honeycomb lattices. Strong evidence is given that the amplitudes of the ‘analytical’ correction terms, N−2, are identically zero for triangular and honeycomb Ising systems. For Pot...

Metric data of 6th century CE pigeons from the Negev Desert, Israel, are employed to test competing hypotheses on flock management strategies: that directed selection for size or shape took place under intensive management; or, alternatively, that stabilizing selection was a stronger determinant of size and shape under extensive management conditions. The results of the analysis support the sec...