Introduction Although cardiac involvement in varicella has been described at post-mortem in those dying from unrecognized myocarditis or from other varicella complications (Hackel, 1953; Tatter et al., 1964; Moore et al., 1969; Morales, Adelman and Fine, 1971), clinical evidence of heart involvement in this disease is extremely rare, and is usually only recognized when there are suggestive elec...

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In the past four decades, research of new product development has attracted attention from both academia and practitioners. The success of new product development has been regarded as one important source of firms’ competitive advantage (Krishnan & Ulrich, 2001; Luo, Kannan, Besharati, & Azarm, 2005). In order to guide decision making in product design, several consumerdriven methodologies, suc...

We propose local space-time approximation spaces for parabolic problems that are optimal in the sense of Kolmogorov and may be employed multiscale domain decomposition methods. The diffusion coefficient can arbitrarily rough space time. To construct we consider a compact transfer operator acts on solutions covers full time dimension. then given by left singular vectors operator. prove compactne...

A multidatabase system (MDBS) integrates information from autonomous local databases managed by diierent database management systems (MDBS) in a distributed environment. A number of challenges are raised for query optimization in such an MDBS. One of the major challenges is that some local optimization information may not be available at the global level. We recently proposed a query sampling m...

til very recently, scientists still deliberated whether human activity was altering the global climate. Specifically, was the release of greenhouse gases, which trap heat radiating from the earth’s surface, to blame? With scientific evidence mounting in favor of the affirmative, the discussion is now turning to what steps society can take to protect our climate. One solution almost certainly wi...

We consider effort allocation in crowdsourcing, where we wish to assign labeling tasks to imperfect homogeneous crowd workers to maximize overall accuracy in a continuous-time Bayesian setting, subject to budget and time constraints. The Bayes-optimal policy for this problem is the solution to a partially observable Markov decision process, but the curse of dimensionality renders the computatio...