BACKGROUND An evaluation of standard automated perimetry (SAP) and short wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) for the central 10-2 visual field test procedure in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is presented in order to determine methods of quantifying the central sensitivity loss in patients at various stages of AMD. METHODS 10-2 SAP and SWAP Humphrey visual fields and s...

Recent research on mutual exclusion for shared-memory systems has focused on local spinalgorithms. Performance is measured using the remote memory references (RMRs) metric. Ascommon in recent literature, we consider a standard asynchronous shared memory model withN processes, which allows atomic read, write and compare-and-swap (short: CAS) operations.In such a model, the asympt...

Inspired by the proliferation of cloud-based services, this paper studies consensus, one of the most fundamental distributed computing problems, in a hybrid model of computation. In this model, processes (or nodes) exchange information by passing messages or by accessing a reliable and highly-available register hosted in the cloud. The paper presents a formal definition of the model and problem...

This paper extends basic results on arbitrage bounds and attainable claims to illiquid markets and general swap contracts where both claims and premiums may have multiple payout dates. Explicit consideration of swap contracts is essential in illiquid markets where the valuation of swaps cannot be reduced to the valuation of cumulative claims at maturity. We establish the existence of optimal tr...

Using the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)-200 Q-Sort items in a large clinical sample of outpatients (N = 105), we developed the SWAP insight scale. The rationale, psychometric properties, and convergent validity of this insight scale are reported. Through factor analysis, six of the SWAP-200 items were identified as psychometrically optimal in the assessment of insight (presence or ...

Communication in networks suffers if a link fails. When the links are edges of a tree that has been chosen from an underlying graph of all possible links, a broken link even disconnects the network. Most often, the link is restored rapidly. A good policy to deal with this sort of transient link failures is swap rerouting, where the temporarily broken link is replaced by a single swap link from ...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of cataract surgery and yellow-tinted intraocular lens (IOLs) implantation on perimetry indices of short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) and standard automated perimetry (SAP) testing in patients with coexisting cataract and glaucoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective comparative case series, phacoemulsification with implantation of yellow-tinte...

The malignant glioma is the most common primary human brain tumor. Its tendency to invade away from the primary tumor mass is considered a leading cause of tumor recurrence and treatment failure. Accordingly, the molecular pathogenesis of glioma invasion is currently under investigation. Previously, we examined a gene expression array database comparing human gliomas to nonneoplastic controls a...

We consider a model of quantum computation in which the set of operations is limited to nearest-neighbor interactions on a 2D lattice. We model movement of qubits with noisy SWAP operations. For this architecture we design a fault-tolerant coding scheme using the concatenated [[7, 1, 3]] Steane code. Our scheme is potentially applicable to ion-trap and solid-state quantum technologies. We calcu...

Peer-to-Peer systems are a new paradigm for information sharing and some systems have successfully been deployed. It has been argued that current Peer-to-Peer systems suffer from the lack of semantics. The SWAP project (Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer) 1 aims at overcoming this problem by combining the Peer-to-Peer paradigm with Semantic Web technologies. In this paper, we propose a data model fo...