UNLABELLED BACKGROUND A large variability in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) correction objectives and instrumentation strategies was documented. The hypothesis was that different correction objectives will lead to different instrumentation strategies. The objective of this study was to develop a numerical model to optimize the instrumentation configurations under given correction obje...

We give a short introduction to and a partial review of the work on the calculation of Wilson loops and Q ¯ Q-potentials via the conjectured AdS/CFT duality. Included is a discussion of the relative weight of the stringy correction to the target space background versus the correction by the quantum fluctuations of the string world sheet. Abstract. We give a short introduction to and a partial r...

Color mixing occurs between background and foreground colors when a pattern is post-printed on a colored area because ink is not completely opaque. This paper proposes a new method for the correction of color mixing in line pattern such as characters and stamps, by using a modified particle density model. Parameters of the color correction can be calculated from two sets of foreground and backg...

Affymetrix gene expression microarray is a popularly used platform for differential analysis. The analysis pipeline includes five steps: background correction, normalization, PM-only correction, and summarization, and differential analysis. Using publicly available microarray data, we compared the performance of five summarization methods: Median, Mean, Median Polish, Robust Linear Model, Li-Wo...

We consider strings with large spin in AdS3×S×M with NS-NS background. We construct the string configurations as solutions of SL(2, R) WZW theory. We compute the relation between the spacetime energy and spin, and show that the anomalous correction is constant, and not logarithmic in the spin. This is in contrast to the S-dual background with R-R charge where the anomalous correction is logarit...