Pseudo-acylceramides with different acyl properties were investigated for their capacity to restore diminished barrier function in essential fatty acid-deficient rats. Daily topical applications of synthetic pseudo-acylceramides containing ester-linked linoleic acid caused a dose-dependent, significant reduction of transepidermal water loss (TEWL). Both other pseudo-acylceramides with ester-lin...

Making use of the N = 2 Liouville theory and world-sheet techniques, we study the properties of D-branes wrapped around vanishing SUSY cycles of singular Calabi-Yau n-folds (n = 2, 3, 4). After constructing boundary states describing the wrapped branes, we evaluate the disc amplitudes corresponding to the periods of SUSY cycles. We use the old technique of KPZ scaling in Liouville theory and de...

This paper considers the classical Shannon sampling theorem in multiresolution spaceswith scaling functions as interpolants. As discussed by Xia and Zhang, for an orthogonal scaling function to support such a sampling theorem, the scaling function must be cardinal. They also showed that the only orthogonal scaling function that is both cardinal and of compact support is the Haar function, which...

We extend the concept of fuzzy integral based on ⊕-decomposable measure from nonnegative fuzzy measurable function to extended real-valued fuzzy measurable function. Further investigations of fuzzy integrals based on pseudo-additive decomposable measure are carried out. Meanwhile, the space (S(μ),σ(·,·)) of all fuzzy measurable function will be proved to be a pseudo-metric space. Finally, as an...

Let F be a commutative ring with 1. For every set Σ, denote by F the set of all set functions a : Σ → F . This is an F -algebra under pointwise addition, pointwise scaling, and pointwise multiplication; i.e., for a, b in F and for λ in F , for every σ in Σ we define (a+ b)(σ) := a(σ) + b(σ), (λ · b)(σ) := λ · b(σ), (a · b)(σ) := a(σ) · b(σ). These structures make F into a commutative F -algebra...

Although factor analysis is the most commonly-used method for examining the structure of cognitive variable interrelations, multidimensional scaling (MDS) can provide visual representations highlighting the continuous nature of interrelations among variables. Using data (N = 8,813; ages 17-97 years) aggregated across 38 separate studies, MDS was applied to 16 cognitive variables representative ...

The domain theoretic notion of lifting allows one to extend a partial order in a trivial way by a minimum. In the context of Quantitative Domain Theory (e.g. [BvBR98] and [FK93]) partial orders are represented as quasi-metric spaces. For such spaces, the notion of the extension by an extremal element turns out to be non trivial. To some extent motivated by these considerations, we characterize ...

where the peak shapes were described by a pseudo-Voigt function and the background was modeled with an 6-term polynomial. Additionally, the PXRD patterns obtained at room temperature and 100 K were analyzed by Le Bail refinement using the GSAS and EXPGUI software, 2,3 where the peak shapes were described by a pseudo-Voigt function (CW profile function 3) and the background was modeled with an 4...

Recently, in a series of papers, a method based on pseudo-values has been proposed for direct regression modeling of the survival function, the restricted mean and cumulative incidence function with right censored data. The models, once the pseudo-values have been computed, can be fit using standard generalized estimating equation software. Here we present SAS macros and R functions to compute ...