(NSHAP) is designed to provide new data to explore how social support and personal relationships are associated with the health and aging in a representative sample of older community-dwelling Americans. NSHAP now has completed two rounds of data collection. There were two important objectives for carrying out the second wave of data collection. First, given the dynamics of health and aging, it...

We develop a rigorous second order analysis on the space of probability measures on a Riemannian manifold M endowed with the quadratic optimal transport distance W2. Our discussion comprehends: definition of covariant derivative, discussion of the problem of existence of parallel transport, calculus of the Riemannian curvature tensor, differentiability of the exponential map and existence of Ja...

i Given any word w, the reduced word w associated to w is any word obtained from w by reduction, such that wi cannot be reduced any further. Given two words w1 and w2 of A, the concatenation of w1 and w2 is the word w = w1w2. The empty word is denoted e. The set of all reduced words is denoted FA. With product defined as the reduced concatenation, this set becomes a group, called the free group...

A first-principles study of the vibrational modes of PbTiO3 in the ferroelectric tetragonal phase has been performed at all the main symmetry points of the Brillouin zone ~BZ!. The calculations use the local-density approximation and ultrasoft pseudopotentials with a plane-wave basis, and reproduce well the available experimental information on the modes at the G point, including the LO-TO spli...

Résumé. La reconnaissance de l'écriture arabe manuscrite est un domaine de recherche relativement récent et qui a connu ces dernières années des progrès remarquables. Il présente un intérêt indéniable dans l’accomplissement de tâches considérées fastidieuses dans certains domaines comme le tri postal, la lecture de chèques bancaires, la lecture des bordereaux, etc. Ce papier présente la concept...

Carl Gustav Hempel 's (19051997) classic account of explanation is widely known as the "cover ing-law model. " It includ es two species : the Deductive-Nomological Expla nation and the Probabilistic-Statist ical Explanation . Since its introduction in the semi nal pape r co-authored by Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), the model has been intense ly debated and criticized in the philosophy of sc...

The antiplasmodial activities of sixty norcantharidin analogs were tested in vitro against a chloroquine sensitive (D6, Sierra Leone) and chloroquine resistant (W2) strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Forty analogs returned IC(50) values <500 μM against at least one of the P. falciparum strains examined. The ring open compound 24 ((1S,4R)-3-(allylcarbamoyl)-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-carboxylic...

Caution: These polynomials are referred to as w0, w1, w2, ... in Sections 5-8 of [1]. However, beginning with Section 9 of [1], Hazewinkel uses the notations w1, w2, w3, ... for some different polynomials (the so-called big Witt polynomials, defined by formula (9.25) in [1]), which are not the same as our polynomials w1, w2, w3, ... (though they are related to them: in fact, the polynomial wk t...