The objective of the study was to determine the long-term mortality and the causes of death in patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis. The authors performed a nationwide, population-based cohort study including all Danish patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis from 1977 through 2006 and alive 1 year after diagnosis. Data were retrieved from medical databases in Denmark. The ab...

For city planning purposes, animations of growing trees of several species can be used to deduce which species may best fit a particular environment. The models used for the animation must conform to real measured data. We present an approach for inverse modeling to fit global growth parameters. The model comprises local production rules, which are iteratively and simultaneously applied to buil...

* Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (GB1119) and from the National Institute of General Medical Science (GM13199-01), U.S. Public Health Service. 1 Sager, R., and Z. Ramanis, these PROCEEDINGS, 50, 260 (1963). 2Ibid., 53, 1053 (1965). 3 Gillham, N. W., Genetics, 52, 529 (1965). 4Ibid., 48, 431 (1963). 6 Levine, R. P., and W. T. Ebersold, Z. Vererbungslehre, 89, 631 (1958)...

The Bell inequalities stand at the cornerstone of developments quantum theory on both foundational and applied side. discussion started as a way to test whether description reality is complete or not, but it developed in such that new research area stemmed from it, namely information. Far being exhausted topic, this paper, we present constructive geometrically intuitive local polytope its facet...

The relative location of simultaneous transmitters, i.e. the set of nodes transmitting a frame at a given time, has a crucial impact on the performance of multi hop wireless networks. Two fundamental aspects of wireless network performances are related to these locations: capacity and interference. Indeed, as interference results from the summation of signals stemmed by concurrent transmitters,...