BACKGROUND The optimal cutoff values of the brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) were examined in patients with hypertension.Methods and Results:A total of 7,656 participants were followed prospectively. The hazard ratio for the development of CVD increased significantly as the baPWV increased, independent of conventional risk factors. The recei...

We show that there exists a deep link between the two disciplines of information theory and spectral geometry. This allows us to obtain new results on a well known quantum gravity motivated natural ultraviolet cutoff which describes an upper bound on the spatial density of information. Concretely, we show that, together with an infrared cutoff, this natural ultraviolet cutoff beautifully reduce...

We investigate an automobile supply chain where a manufacturer and a retailer serve a market with a fuel-effi cient automobile under a scrappage program by the government. The program awards a subsidy to each consumer who trades in his or her used automobile with a new fuel-effi cient automobile, if the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) for the new one does not exceed a cutoff level....

Consider aI~lUlti-priority, nonpreemptive, N-server Poisson arrival queueing system. The number of servers requested by an arrival has a known probability distribution. Service times are negative exponential. In order to save available servers for higher priority customers., arriving customers of each lower priority are deliberately queued whenever the number of servers busy equals or exceeds a...

This paper continues the authors’ previous study (SIAM J. Math. Anal., 2016) of the trend toward equilibrium of the Becker-Döring equations with subcritical mass, by characterizing certain fine properties of solutions to the linearized equation. In particular, we partially characterize the spectrum of the linearized operator, showing that it contains the entire imaginary axis in polynomially we...

The static potential, corresponding to the interaction of two heavy sources is computed forN = 4 Super Yang Mills in the strong ’t Hooft coupling regime by using the AdS/CFT conjecture and performing a computation of a rectangular Wilson loop at a finite distance of the boundary. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Unidad de Investigación Asociada al Centro de F́ısica...

Carlo A. Rozzi,1,2 Daniele Varsano,3,2 Andrea Marini,4,2 Eberhard K. U. Gross,1,2 and Angel Rubio1,3,2 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 2European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), D-14195 Berlin, Germany and E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 3Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, UPV/EHU, Centro...

Explanations of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays are severely constrained by the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz’min effect, which limits their propagation over cosmological distances. We argue that possible departures from strict Lorentz invariance, too small to have been detected otherwise, can affect elementary-particle kinematics so as to suppress or forbid inelastic collisions of cosmic-ra...

Natural mixing processes modeled by Markov chains often show a sharp cutoff in their convergence to long-time behavior. This paper presents problems where the cutoff can be proved (card shuffling, the Ehrenfests' urn). It shows that chains with polynomial growth (drunkard's walk) do not show cutoffs. The best general understanding of such cutoffs (high multiplicity of second eigenvalues due to ...

The phase space slicing method of two cutoffs for next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo style QCD corrections has been applied to many physics processes. The method is intuitive, simple to implement, and relies on a minimum of process dependent information. Although results for specific applications exist in the literature, there is not a full and detailed description of the method. Herein such a d...