Motivated by nanoscale growth of ultra-thin films, we study a model deposition, on an interval substrate, particles that perform Brownian motions until any two meet, when they nucleate to form static island, which acts as absorbing barrier subsequent particles. This is continuum version lattice studied in the applied literature. We show associated interval-splitting process converges sparse dep...

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets, each of which is characterized by the footprint of uncertainty, are a very useful means to depict the linguistic information in the process of decision making. In this article, we investigate the group decision making problems in which all the linguistic information provided by the decision makers is expressed as interval type-2 fuzzy decision matrices where each of ...

We read with great interest the article by Bestas et al1 entitled “The effect of adrenaline on desflurane-induced prolonged QTc interval: a randomized double-blind trial”, which is published in the current issue of European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences. The Authors1 investigated the effect of adrenaline on desflurane-induced prolonged corrected QT (QTc) interval. They mention...

A12-lead ECG was obtained from a 72-year-old man with a core body temperature of 85°F (Figure 1). The ECG shows severe sinus bradycardia with prolonged PR, prolonged QRS complex, prolonged QT interval, and an extra deflection at the end of the QRS complex (Osborn waves) (arrows). A second 12-lead ECG obtained 24 hours later, after the patient had been rewarmed to 98°F, was normal (Figure 2). Hy...

In this paper a mixture of Type-I censoring and Type-II progressive censoring schemes, called an adaptive Type-II progressive censoring scheme, is introduced for life testing or reliability experiments. For this censoring scheme, the effective sample size m is fixed in advance and the progressive censoring scheme is provided but the number of items progressively removed from the experiment upon...