increasing overall liberalization and improving reliability indexes are the two prime but often conflicting objectives of electricity markets. proper embedding of regulatory intervention of price caps provides an effective means to tradeoff between these two objectives. surprisingly, in the context of the infinitely repeated game paradigm, as in the case of actual electricity markets, the domin...

We show how to compute or at least to estimate various capacity-related quantities for bosonic Gaussian channels. Among these are the coherent information, the entanglement-assisted classical capacity, the one-shot classical capacity, and a quantity involving the transpose operation, shown to be a general upper bound on the quantum capacity, even allowing for finite errors. All bounds are expli...

One of the most surprising recent results in quantum Shannon theory is the superactivation of the quantum capacity of a quantum channel. This phenomenon has its roots in the extreme violation of additivity of the channel capacity and enables to reliably transmit quantum information over zerocapacity quantum channels. In this work we demonstrate a similar effect for the classical capacity of a q...

In normal subjects supramaximal flows (SF) are known to be correlated with flow limitation. To further understand the mechanisms involved in SF this correlation and the influence of salbutamol and methacholine administration on SF have been investigated in asthmatic subjects. Protocol A involved obtaining basal maximal expiratory flow/volume curves and interrupted curves through a fast valve fr...

In this paper, we study inextensible ows in three dimensional Lie groups with a bi-invariant metric. The necessary and sucient conditions for inextensible curve ow are expressed as a partial dierential equation involving the curvatures. Also, we give some results for special cases of Lie groups.

OBJECTIVE Respiratory pressure-volume curves fitted to exponential equations have been used to assess disease severity and prognosis in spontaneously breathing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Sigmoidal equations have been used to fit pressure-volume curves for mechanically ventilated patients but not for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients. We compared a sigmoidal model and an e...

background :falls have been strongly associated with decreased physical activity and impaired mobility. reduced range of motion, as a consequence of muscle stiffness, has been indicated to assume a positive relationship to fall incidence. also clinical observations suggest that maintaining the normal spinal curves is associated with the prevention of spinal, knee and hip disorders. thus, the ai...

background: we designed an algorithmic model based on the logistic regression analysis and a non-algorithmic model based on the artificial neural network (ann). materials and methods: the ability of these models was compared together in clinical application to differentiate malignant from benign breast tumors in a study group of 161 patients' records. each patient’s record consisted of 6 s...

‎‎in the category of mordell curves (e_d:y^2=x^3+d) with nontrivial torsion groups we find curves of the generic rank two as quadratic twists of (e_1), ‎and of the generic rank at least two and at least three as cubic twists of (e_1). ‎previous work‎, ‎in the category of mordell curves with trivial torsion groups‎, ‎has found infinitely many elliptic curves with rank at least seven as sextic tw...