OBJECTIVES To document overall, racial, ethnic and intent-specific spatiotemporal trends of firearm-related fatality rates (FRF rates) in the USA. DESIGN Cross-sectional study per year from 2000 to 2010. SETTING USA PARTICIPANTS Aggregate count of all people in the USA from 2000 to 2010. OUTCOME MEASURES Data from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System from 2000 to 201...

The standard paradigm for online power of two choices problems in random graphs is the Achlioptas process. Here we consider the following natural generalization: Starting with G0 as the empty graph on n vertices, in every step a set of r edges is drawn uniformly at random from all edges that have not been drawn in previous steps. From these, one edge has to be selected, and the remaining r − 1 ...

This paper compares ten vowels sounds across gender and accent. Each formant for each vowel was analysed individually across data sets, but no comparison was drawn directly between the formant relationship within each vowel. The objective here was to examine the formants individually across gender and accent to establish a method for transforming vowel quality in a rule-based synthesis system a...

In this paper we investigate a new task of automatically constructing an overview article from a given set of news articles about a news event. We propose a news synthesis approach to address this task based on passage segmentation, ranking, selection and merging. Our proposed approach is compared with several typical multi-document summarization methods on the Wikinews dataset, and achieves th...

Available online 4 September 2015

The detection and the research of the neutrinos background of Universe are the attractive problems. This problems do not seem the unpromising one in the case of the high neutrinos density that is necessary for the explanation of the nucleons-antinucleons asymmetry of Universe (the Pontekorvo’s and Smorodinsky’s hipothesis [1]). It was offered before to use the low energy neutrinos background of...

Graphene (GN), a single layer two-dimensional structure nanomaterial, exhibits exceptional physical, electrical and chemical properties that lead to many applications from electronics to biomedicine. The unique parameters of GN, notably its considerable electron mobility, thermal conductivity, high surface area and electrical conductivity, are bringing heightened attention into biomedical appli...

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, P.O. Box 2575, 3500 GN Utrecht, The Netherlands CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Žitná 25, CZ-11567 Praha 1, Czech Republic Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Department of Mathematics...

The present paper is aimed at studying the effect of gravity on the general model of the equations of the generalized thermomicrostretch for a homogeneous isotropic elastic half-space solid whose surface is subjected to a Mode-I crack problem. The problem is in the context of the Green and Naghdi theory (GN). The normal mode analysis is used to obtain the exact expressions for the displacement ...