Notre Dame student, Jim Kearns, along with a friend, James Brown of St. Louis UniVl'rsity recently wrote a hook exploring the relationship between the War in Vietnam and the generation gap. The book, Hra of Challenge, is due to he published in paperback form next week by tile !3. lieder Book Co. of St. Louis. The hook looks at the comnews media. They conclude that these stereotypes prevent dial...

The aim of the present study was to explore if observer rated sleepiness (ORS) is a feasible method for quantification of driver sleepiness in field studies. Two measures of ORS were used: (1) one for behavioural signs based on facial expression, body gestures and body movements labelled B-ORS, and (2) one based on driving performance e.g. if swerving and other indicators of impaired driving oc...

BACKGROUND The purpose was to investigate whether patient-specific factors (PSF) and surgically modifiable factors (SMF), measured by means of a computer-assisted navigation system, can predict the Knee Society Scores (KSS) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS Data from 99 patients collected during a randomized clinical trial were used for this secondary data analysis. The KSS scores ...

Building on our earlier work and that of Son, we construct string theory duals of nonrelativistic critical phenomena at finite temperature and density. Concretely, we find black hole solutions of type IIB supergravity whose asymptotic geometries realize the Schrödinger group as isometries. We then identify the non-relativistic conformal field theories to which they are dual. We analyze the ther...

To investigate the relationships between whole-body vibration and changes in wakefulness, We measured the change of a subjective wakefulness level and electroencephalogram (EEG). Subjects are ten healthy male university students. The subjects were exposed to whole-body vibration with frequency (10 Hz) and acceleration level (0.6 ms(-2) r.m.s.) for 12 min in the seated position. Subjective wakef...

Introduction: The Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) belongs to the group of mitochondrial diseases. Cells that require more energy intake, such as muscle, nerve, retinal and cochlear, are most commonly affected. The established diagnostic criteria are: 1) the age of onset before 20 years old (100%), 2) progressive external ophthalmoplegia (100%), 3) pigmentary retinopathy (100%), and 4) at least one ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The long-term outcome of patellofemoral arthroplasty is related to progression of femorotibial osteoarthritis with need for conversion to total knee arthroplasty. We investigated whether prior patellofemoral arthroplasty compromises the results of total knee arthroplasty. METHODS 13 patients who had had 14 Richards type II patellofemoral arthroplasties converted to tota...

We introduce a new formal model in which a learning algorithm must combine a collection of potentially poor but statistically independent hypothesis functions in order to approximate an unknown target function arbitrarily well. Our motivation includes the question of how to make optimal use of multiple independent runs of a mediocre learning algorithm, as well as settings in which the many hypo...

This paper presents a cross-comparison of the data acquired by the MODIS and CloudSat sensors in order to understand the limit of the developed cloud-mask algorithm and to provide a quantitative validation assessment of cloud masks by using exclusively remotely sensed data. The analysis has been carried out by comparing both the intermediate levels of the cloud mask such as the brightness tempe...