BACKGROUND To investigate the effect of baseline clinical characteristics and glucocorticoid treatment on temporal artery biopsy (TAB) findings in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS Individuals who developed GCA after inclusion in two population-based health surveys were identified through linkage to the local and the national patient registers. In addition, other patients diag...

In this supplementary material, we provide more related work, more details of structured output tracking and online latent structural learning for visual tracking, and more experimental results (both qualitative and quantitative). The experimental results includes demonstration videos, more quantitative results of our tracking algorithm with and without parts in Tab. 2 and Fig. 1, more quantita...

This paper mainly discusses the thermal behavior and performance of Lithium-ion batteries utilized in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) based on numerical simulations. In this work, the battery’s thermal behavior is investigated at different C-rates and also contour plots of phase potential for both tabs and volume-mo...

Introduction: We have modified the open-source program SatStress (http://code.google.com/p/satstress), developed at the University of Colorado-Boulder and JPL [1], used for calculating the tidal stresses on a satellite that is fully differentiated into a rocky core, a global subsurface ocean, and a decoupled, ice shell. Wahr et al. (2009) [1] used gravitational potential theory to determine the...

Par le théorème de la limite centrale, cette variable converge en loi vers la loi normale centrée réduite, c’est-à-dire, pour tout t ∈ R, on a limn→+∞ E[eitZn ] = e− t2 2 . L’objet de cet exercice est de montrer que la suite Zn ne peut pas converger en probabilité. 1. Calculer la fonction caractéristique de Z2n − Zn et montrer que cette différence converge en loi. 2. En étudiant P(|Z2n − Zn| ≥ ...

We develop and experiment with new upper bounds for the constrained maximum-entropy sampling problem. Our partition bounds are based on Fischer's inequality. Further new upper bounds combine the use of Fischer's inequality with previously developed bounds. We demonstrate this in detail by using the partitioning idea to strengthen the spectral bounds of Ko, Lee and Queyranne and of Lee. Computat...

This study was conducted to assess the effects of 0.5% Preservative Mixture (PM) containing calcium lactate (40%), sodium diacetate (40%) and sodium chloride (20%) on the microbiological, chemical and sensory quality of chicken meat nuggets stored at 4±2 C and under Modified Atmosphere Packaging o (MAP). There were two experimental groups of samples, namely control and PM-treated. The results s...

Benzol angeführt 0 , was etwa 3%/°C entspricht, also recht erheblich ist. Eine gute Bestätigung der erwarteten gegenläufigen Abhängigkeit von [TJ] und TK gibt Tab. 5 nach E v a n s und Y o u n g 3 1 , die Polyisobutylen (ähnlich B 15) in verschiedenen Lösungsmitteln bei 2 Temperaturen gemessen haben. Das zuletzt aufgeführ te Lösungsmittel ist als Ester nicht ohne weiteres mit den Kohlenwasserst...