The articles listed below represent a bibliography of research on the female condom; this is an update of the original female condom bibliography created in 2010 by the Cervical Barrier Advancement Society (CBAS). To update the 2010 bibliography, we searched in PubMed for the term “female condom” in titles and abstracts from articles published between June 2010 and October 2011. This version of...

“Just add water” is the modern chime turning various prepared foods into family dinner; however, is it good advice for people at the table as well? In this issue of JASN, Berl1 describes how solute intake affects the kidney’s handling of water. What of the converse: How does intake of water affect kidney function and other physiologic variables? A brief search of the Internet will find multiple...

In this paper we prove that for a class of RLC circuits with convex energy function and weak electromagnetic coupling it is possible to “add a differentiation” to the port terminals presening passivity-with a new storage function that is directly related to the circuit power. The result is of interest in circuits theory, but also has applications in control problems as it suggests the paradigm ...

We present an algorithm to compute an approximate overlap of two convex polytopes P1 and P2 in R3 under rigid motion. Given any ε ∈ (0, 1/2], our algorithm runs in O(ε−3n log3.5 n) time with probability 1− n−O(1) and returns a (1− ε)-approximate maximum overlap, provided that the maximum overlap is at least λ ·max{|P1|, |P2|} for some given constant λ ∈ (0, 1]. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F...

this study evaluates the discriminative power of sequential spectrum analysis of the short-term electrocardiogram (ecg) time series in separating normal and subjects with life threatening arrhythmias like, ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (vt/vf). the raw ecg time series is transformed into a series of binary symbols and the binary occupancy or relative distribution of mono-sequences (i.e. ...

In this work we extend to the interval-valued setting the notion of an overlap functions and we discuss a method which makes use of interval-valued overlap functions for constructing OWA operators with interval-valued weights. . Some properties of intervalvalued overlap functions and the derived interval-valued OWA operators are analysed. We specially focus on the homogeneity and migrativity pr...

We present a flexible analysis/synthesis tool for transient signals that extends current sinusoidal and sines+noise models for audio to sines+transients+noise. The explicit handling of transients provides a more realistic and robust signal model. Because the transient model presented is the frequency domain dual to sinusoidal modeling, it has similar flexibility and allows for a wide range of t...

We present improvements to our incremental proposition-based summariser, which is inspired by Kintsch and van Dijk’s (1978) text comprehension model. Argument overlap is a central concept in this summariser. Our new model replaces the old overlap method based on distributional similarity with one based on lexical chains. We evaluate on a new corpus of 124 summaries of educational texts, and sho...

We construct a sequence of convex polyhedra on n vertices with the property that, as n→∞, the fraction of its edge unfoldings that avoid overlap approaches 0, and so the fraction that overlap approaches 1. Nevertheless, each does have (several) nonoverlapping edge unfoldings.