The pneumonia team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation congratulates the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study on delivering on their grant to collect high-quality data from thousands of children with World Health Organization-defined severe and very severe pneumonia and from controls in 9 diverse sites in 7 low- and middle-income countries. This supplement sets the foun...

The consequences to structures caused by permanent fault displacement have been investigated for dip-slip faulting, but not the effect of embedment depth on interaction between a normal rupture and shallow embedded foundation. This study foundation using numerical model validated with centrifuge experiments. It was found that gapping mechanism distress occurred at different positions relative o...

For dynamic analyses of railway track structures, the algorithm of solution is very important. For estimating the important problems in the railway tracks such as the effects of rail joints, rail supports, rail modeling in the nearness of bridge and other problems, the models of the axially beam model on the elastic foundation can be utilized. For studying the effects of axially beam on the ela...

It is well-known that the Σkand Πk-levels of the dot-depth hierarchy and the polynomial hierarchy correspond via leaf languages. We extend this correspondence to the ∆k-levels of these hierarchies: Leaf (∆ k ) = ∆ k . The same methods are used to give evidence against an earlier conjecture of Straubing and Thérien about a leaf-language upper bound for BPP. Research supported in part by NUS gran...

Depth from Focus (DFF) and Depth from Defocus (DFD) methods are theoretically uni ed with the geometric triangulation principle. Fundamentally, the depth sensitivities of DFF and DFD are not di erent than those of stereo (or motion) based systems having the same physical dimensions. Contrary to common belief, DFD does not inherently avoid the matching (correspondence) problem. Basically, DFD an...

The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) maintains an on-line health pedigree database for inherited disorders of animals. With the American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation, the OFA maintains the Canine Health Information Center (CHIC) for parent breed clubs to identify breed-specific required health tests. Analysis of the results of OFA evaluations in the hip and elbow registries show ...

The Minimum Equivalent Expression problem is a natural optimization problem in the second level of the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy. It has long been conjectured to be Σ2 -complete and indeed appears as an open problem in Garey and Johnson [GJ79]. The depth-2 variant was only shown to be Σ2 -complete in 1998 [Uma98], and even resolving the complexity of the depth-3 version has been mentioned as a ...

a general notion of completely monotone functionals on an ordered banach algebra b into a proper h*-algebra a with an integral representation for such functionals is given. as an application of this result we have obtained a characterization for the generalized completely continuous monotone functions on weighted foundation semigroups. a generalized version of bochner’s theorem on foundation se...

an experimental program was conducted to determine the effects of geosynthetic reinforcement on mitigating reflection cracking in asphalt overlays. the objectives of this study were to asses the effects of geosynthetics inclusion and its placement location on the accumulation of permanent deformation. to simulate an asphalt pavement overlaid on top of a crack in a concrete or asphalt pavement, ...