Current indices used in the evaluation of antihypertensive treatment duration and homogeneity such as the trough-peak, smoothness index, and normalized smoothness index were designed to be applied to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring recordings from individual participants. Evaluation of antihypertensive treatment in populations is often carried out by calculating these individual indices fo...

The primary clocks CS1 and CS2 have been developed and operated by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany. By their contributions to the definition of the scale unit of International Atomic Time they have provided access to the realization of the SI second over decades with exceptional accuracy. They have stood out against other primary clocks by the novelty of their d...

The earthquakelike model with a continuous distribution of static thresholds is used to describe the properties of solid friction. The evolution of the model is reduced to a master equation which can be solved analytically. This approach naturally describes stick-slip and smooth-sliding regimes of tribological systems within a framework which separates the calculation of the friction force from...

This document summarizes the available evidence and provides recommendations on the use of home blood pressure monitoring in clinical practice and in research. It updates the previous recommendations on the same topic issued in year 2000. The main topics addressed include the methodology of home blood pressure monitoring, its diagnostic and therapeutic thresholds, its clinical applications in h...

Combining efficiency with reliability within CP systems is one of the main concerns of CP developers. This paper presents a simple and efficient way to connect Choco and Ibex, two CP solvers respectively spe-cialised on finite and continuous domains. This enables to take advantage of the most recent advances of the continuous community within Choco while saving development and maintenance resou...

連続設計変数を持つ最適化問題に対しては, これまで非線形数理計画法による解法が主流で あった.設計空間が単峰で,しかも目的関数の 勾配が連続である場合にはこのアプロ-チは極 めて有効であるが,そうでない場合には遺伝的 アルゴリズム(GA),シミュレーテッドアニー リング(SA),あるいはタブーサーチ(TS)な ど,ヒューリスティックサーチ(heuristic search) [1]とよばれる方法が用いられることも多くなっ てきた.なかでも,GAとSAはこのような手法 の双璧であり,連続最適化問題に対しても多く の研究が行われてきた[2].一般的に,設計空間 内にサイズの大きい局所解領域が多く存在する 場合にはGAが有効であり,設計空間全域的には 単峰に近いが,サイズの小さい局所解領域が無 数に存在する場合にはSAが有効である[3]. SA[4]は,炉内の固体の熱的平衡状態をシミュ レ...