STUDY DESIGN Optical cross-sectional study. PURPOSE To study the correlation between asymmetry of the back (measured by means of surface topography) and deformity of the spine (quantified by the Cobb angle). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The Cobb angle is considered the gold standard in diagnosis and follow-up of scoliosis but does not correctly characterize the three-dimensional deformity of scol...

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A typical iteration starts at the current point x where nz (say) variables are free from both their bounds. The projected gradient vector gz, whose elements are the derivatives of F ðxÞ with respect to the free variables, is known. A unit lower triangular matrix L and a diagonal matrix D (both of dimension nz), such that LDL is a positive-definite approximation of the matrix of second derivativ...

Belief change scenarios have been introduced as a framework for expressing different forms of belief change. The essential idea is that for a belief change scenario (K;R;C) the set of formulas K, representing the knowledge base, is modified so that the sets of formulas R and C are respectively true in, and consistent with, the result. By restricting the form of a belief change scenario one obta...

This paper analyzes the relationships between northwest flow snowfall (NWFS) and various topographic and geographic (TOPO/GEOG) variables in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern U.S. We identify NWFS events on the basis of low-level wind direction, extract values for the TOPO/GEOG variables from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), and develop statistical relationships between NWF...

This paper presents an analysis of Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Japanese within the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar [Steedman 2000]. Shimoyama [1999] argues that when an IHRC appears within the scope of a universal quantifier, the interpretation of the IHRC exemplifies E-type anaphora and that the LF representation of the IHRC should have a variable bound...

We analyze low rank tensor completion (TC) using noisy measurements of a subset of the tensor. Assuming a rank-$r$, order-$d$, $N \times N \times \cdots \times N$ tensor where $r=O(1)$, the best sampling complexity that was achieved is $O(N^{\frac{d}{2}})$, which is obtained by solving a tensor nuclear-norm minimization problem. However, this bound is significantly larger than the number of fre...