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322 Preoperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Severe Asthma Patients Ekaterini Syrigou, Anastasios Kallianos, Sotirios Tsimpoukis, Nektaria Makrilia, Ioannis Dannos, Fotis Psarros, and Kostas N. Syrigos. Department of Allergy, and; Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Background: Lung resection is still the...

Akihiro SHIMIZU1), Takeshi IDO1,2), Masaki NISHIURA3), Hiromi TAKAHASHI1), Hiroe IGAMI1), Yasuo YOSHIMURA1), Shin KUBO1,2), Takashi SHIMOZUMA1), Shinji KATO1), Masayuki YOKOYAMA1,4) and LHD Experiment Group1) 1)National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5292, Japan 2)Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-0814, Japan 3)Graduate Sc...

We present a method of fitting arbitrary functions to linear combinations of Gaussians. In particular, we discuss an adaptation of Prony’s method, or separation of exponentials, which allows us to automatically select appropriate exponents for these Gaussians. We then apply this technique to the selection of dealiasing sets for pseudospectral electron correlation methods. We show that it can su...

These are rough notes for the Fall 2015 course. Solutions to problem sets were posted on an internal website.