SUMMARY Several outlier and subgroup identification statistics (OASIS) have been proposed to discover transcriptomic features with outliers or multiple modes in expression that are indicative of distinct biological processes or subgroups. Here, we borrow ideas from the OASIS methods in the bioinformatics and statistics literature to develop the 'most informative spacing test' (MIST) for unsuper...

Data centers store a massive amount of data in a large number of servers built by commodity hardware. To maintain data integrity against server failures, erasure codes have been extensively deployed in modern data centers to provide a higher level of failure tolerance with less storage overhead than replication. Yet, compared to replication, disseminating erasure-coded data from a source server...

BACKGROUND The step test has been used to assess exercise capacity in patients with chronic respiratory disease; however, its use has not been described with regard to patients with bronchiectasis (BCT). OBJECTIVE This study assessed the reliability of the Chester step test (CST) and the modified incremental step test (MIST) and also correlated these tests with pulmonary function, heart rate ...

"Night of the Mist" is the moving and deeply expressive statement of a part of the life of a 21 year old Hungarian Jew. From the spring of 1944 when his country was overrun by the Nazis, to the end of the war when he found his way hack to his home town, Mr. Heimler takes us with him through the terrors and pain of Auschwitz, Troeglitz and Buchenwald. And as we read we can catch vivid glimpses o...

Graph games with an annihilation rule, as introduced by Conway, Fraenkel and Yesha, are studied under the midre play rule for progressively finite graphs that satisfy a condition on the reversibility of non-terminal Sprague-Grundy zeros to Spragu+Grundy ones. Two general theorems on the Spragu+Grundy zeros and ones are given, followed by two theorems characterizing the set of P-positions under ...

In the absence of a single composite measure to assess, rank, and test disability and functional needs in the context of disaster, this study undertook an interdisciplinary approach to develop a composite index based on C-MIST theory. An examination into how well the CMIST index represents the multidimensional nature of disability and functional needs was conducted, as well as illustrating any ...

Air film cooling has been successfully used to cool gas turbine hot sections for the last half century. A promising technology is proposed to enhance air film cooling with water mist injection. Numerical simulations have shown that injecting a small amount of water droplets into the cooling air improves film-cooling performance significantly. However, previous studies were conducted at conditio...

cases do not do well, if there has been much lung destruction. They find considerable difficulty in breathing, and complain of discomfort aud a sense of uneasiness. From the beginning of June till the middle of October there are heavy rains with mist and absolute saturation of the air with moisture. There is not much sunshine and exercise out of doors is curtailed. To keep out the mist and damp...