background and objective: lack of sleep (insomnia) is a common problem involving society members and inpa-tients causing different physiological effects. treatment includes a variety of several pharmacologic or other techniques. one of the non-pharmacologic methods is local heating of terminal organs (passive body heating). manipulation of body temperature is a potential therapeutic interventio...

Abstract We develop a new measure of party position based on scaling ideology tags supplied in infoboxes political parties’ Wikipedia pages. Assuming simple model tag assignment, we estimate the locations parties and ideologies common space. find that recovered scale can be interpreted familiar terms “left versus right.” Estimated positions correlate well with ratings from extant large-scale ex...

PURPOSE The dose-response relationship for a relatively short length (4 mm) of rat spinal cord has been shown to be significantly modified by adjacent low-dose fields. In an additional series of experiments, we have now established the dose-volume dependence of this effect. METHODS AND MATERIALS Wistar rats were irradiated on the cervical spinal cord with single doses of unmodulated protons (...

We numerically investigate decoherence of a two-spin system (central system) by a bath of many spins 1/2. By carefully adjusting parameters, the dynamical regime of the bath has been varied from quantum chaos to regular, while all other dynamical characteristics have been kept practically intact. We explicitly demonstrate that for a many-body quantum bath, the onset of quantum chaos leads to si...