BACKGROUND Recently, we found that sodium restriction shifted the circadian rhythm of blood pressure from nondipper to dipper in patients with the sodium-sensitive essential hypertension. This study examined whether diuretics can transform the circadian rhythm of blood pressure from nondipper to dipper. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 21 patients with essential hypertension during both a basel...

We prove a conjecture by Dipper, James, and Murphy that a bipartition is restricted if and only if it is Kleshchev. Hence, the restricted bipartitions naturally label the crystal graphs of level 2 irreducible integrable Uv.bsle/-modules and the simple modules of Hecke algebras of type Bn in the non semisimple case.

When presented with an entity (e.g., a wooden honey-dipper) labeled with a novel noun, how does a listener know that the noun refers to an instance of an object kind (honey-dipper) rather than to a substance kind (wood)? While English speakers draw upon count-mass syntax for clues to the noun’s meaning, linguists have proposed that classifier languages, which lack count-mass syntax, provide oth...

Goldfish scooping is one of the traditional Japanese play. In general, people scoop goldfish in a shallow water tank using a fragile water-thin dipper. In this paper, we describe virtual goldfish scooping system using haptic device and stereoscopic display.