Abstract. It is found the exact solution of the Poisson equation for the multidimensional space with topology M3+d = R3 ×T d . This solution describes smooth transition from the Newtonian behavior 1/r3 for distances bigger than periods of tori (the extra dimension sizes) to multidimensional behavior 1/r1+d 3+d in opposite limit. In the case of one extra dimension d = 1, the gravitational potent...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify high-risk industry groups for effective allocation of occupational safety and health prevention and research resources. METHODS We used all compensable Washington state workers' compensation claims to rank North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industry groups by a "prevention index" (PI). The PI is the average of the rank o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the number and protectiveness of local smoking regulations adopted before the implementation of a preemptive statewide smoking control bill. METHOD Review of local smoking control regulations from all 100 counties and 85 municipalities with populations greater than 5000 in North Carolina. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Adoption of local smoking control regulations before and d...

In this article, we consider ‘N ’spherical caps of area 4πp were uniformly distributed over the surface of a unit sphere. We study the random intersection graph GN constructed by these caps. We prove that for p = c Nα , c > 0 and α > 2, the number of edges in graph GN follow the Poisson distribution. Also we derive the strong law results for the number of isolated vertices in GN : for p = c Nα ...

Matt Russell and Paul Takac are economists, and Lisa Usher is Chief of the Division of IndustryProductivity Studies, in the Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: Russell.Matthew @bls.gov [email protected] [email protected] The NAICS classification system presents a more consistent framework and a conceptual improvement for productivity measurement; while p...

In this paper, we propose an incremental method of Granular Networks (GN) to construct conceptual and computational platform of Granular Computing (GrC). The essence of this network is to describe the associations between information granules including fuzzy sets formed both in the input and output spaces. The context within which such relationships are being formed is established by the system...

Dolphin Research Australia Inc., Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia, Cetacean Research Unit, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia, 5 StatPlan Consulting Pty Ltd, Woodburn, NSW, Australia, 6 A...

We present a novel formulation for discriminative anatomy detection in high dimensional neuroimaging data. While most studies solve this problem using mass univariate approaches, recent works show better accuracy and variable selection using a sparse classification model. Such methods typically use an l1 penalty for imposing sparseness and a graph net (GN) or a total variation (TV) penalty for ...

To test the hypotheses that U.S. Virgin Islanders' knowledge about local coral reefs is correlated with behavior, and that different sociological groups of residents have different patterns of knowledge and behavior, a mixed approach to surveying residents was used: (1) personal interviews were held in public locations and (2) an online version of the survey was administered to residents of the...

The NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT) program has deployed soil moisture observing networks in the watersheds of the Russian River and the North Fork (NF) of the American River in northern California, and the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona. These networks were designed to serve the combined needs of the hydrological, meteorological, agricultural, and climatological communities for ob...