The paper reports on new algorithms for solving partially observable games. Whereas existing algorithms apply AND-OR search to a tree of blackbox belief states, our “incremental” versions treat uncertainty as a new search dimension, examining the physical states within a belief state to construct solution trees incrementally. On a newly created database of checkmate problems for Kriegspiel (a p...

A choroidal detachment may form during pars plana vitrectomy when the infusion line is partially disinserted and fluid is infused into the choroid or suprachoroidal space instead of into the vitreous cavity. We describe a new surgical technique that was used successfully in 4 patients who developed intraoperative choroidal detachments during 23-gauge vitrectomy after the infusion cannula was ac...

a common fixed point result for weakly increasing mappings satisfying generalized contractive type of zhang in ordered metric spaces are derived.

Normal oscillations of a viscous stratified fluid partially filling an arbitrary vessel and bounded above by elastic horizontal membrane are studied. In this case, we consider scalar model problem that reflects the main features vector spatial problem. The characteristic equation for eigenvalues is obtained, structure spectrum asymptotics branches Assumptions made about oscillation vessel. It p...

In-vitro differences in monosodium urate (MSU) crystal dissolution in paired plasma and synovial fluid samples from patients with various arthritides were studied. Plasma was a significantly better solvent for MSU than synovial fluid (overall difference 6.3 mg/dl (0.37 mmol/l); significant at P less than 0.001). Attempts to correlate the solubility differentials with the principal compositional...

The phase behavior of colloidal particles embedded in a binary fluid is influenced by wetting layers surrounding each particle. The free energy of the fluid film depends on its morphology, i.e., on size, shape and connectivity. Under rather natural assumptions a general expression for the Hamiltonian can be given extending the model of hard spheres to partially penetrable shapes including energ...

The role of ascitic fluid collagen in the pathogenesis of the coagulopathy that follows peritoneovenous shunting was examined. Collagen was partially purified from ascitic fluid and infused into rabbits. All animals developed changes in their haemostatic profile consistent with intravascular coagulation. Aspirin therapy, for five days before the collagen infusion, prevented these changes. Seven...

The synchronous interaction between a sloshing fluid and its container may take place when the motion of the container is not prescribed a priori. When a partially-filled container is suspended as a bifilar pendulum, the fluid contributes to the restoring force by its weight through the wire suspensions and may either augment or diminish the restoring force through hydrodynamic interaction with...

Emptying a container partially filled with viscous fluid can be a frustratingly slow process. It takes time for the fluid to even begin discharging after tipping the container to develop a draining film on the interior surface. To study the effects of the shape and the tipping angle of the container, we predict the time required for the fluid to begin discharging in two simple geometries. In ad...

The Helmholtz free energy F of the interacting 2-D electron fluid is calculated nonperturbatively using a mapping of the quantum fluid to a classical Coulomb fluid [Phys. Rev. Letters, 87, 206 (2002)]. For density parameters rs such that ∼ 25 < rs, the fluid is unpolarized at all temperatures t = T/EF , where EF is the Fermi energy. For lower densities, the system becomes fully spin polarized f...