entropy-stabilized oxides: Results from density functional theory calculations Zs. Rak, C. M. Rost, M. Lim, P. Sarker, C. Toher, S. Curtarolo, J.-P. Maria, and D. W. Brenner Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Center for Materials Genomics, Duke Un...

BACKGROUND To compare volume reserve capacity (VRC) and development of intra-abdominal hypertension after different in vitro temporary abdominal closure (TAC) techniques. METHODS A model of the abdomen was designed. The abdominal wall was simulated with polychloroprene, a synthetic rubber compound. A lentil-shaped defect of 150 cm(2) was cut into the anterior aspect of the abdominal wall. TAC...

12 Uncertainty quantification is currently receiving a surge in attention in hydrology as researchers 13 are trying to better understand characteristics of the watersheds being studied and as decision 14 makers are keen to better quantify accuracy and precision of model predictions. Informal and 15 formal Bayesian approaches have been documented for assessment of parameter and model 16 predicti...

Zinc (Zn)-deficiency (ZD) is implicated in the pathogenesis of human oral-esophageal cancers. Previously, we showed that in ZD mice genetic deletion of cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) enhances N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine-induced forestomach carcinogenesis. By contrast, Cox-2 deletion offers protection in Zn-sufficient (ZS) mice. We hypothesize that ZD activates pathways insensitive to COX-2 inhibition,...

The expressions of solutions for general n × m matrix-valued inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equations are derived. This generalizes a result of Jaschke (2003) for scalar inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equations. As an application, some IR vector-valued inhomogeneous nonlinear stochastic differential equations are reduced to random differential equations, facilitating...

Mental health and suicide prevention are national priorities in Australia, with research currently focussed towards the ZERO Suicide (ZS) initiative. The aim of this review was to evaluate impact programmes, particular ZS A systematic using PRISMA guidelines conducted six EBSCO Host databases; Academic Search Complete, Australian/New Zealand Reference Centre, CINAHL MEDLINE, APA PsycINFO, Psyc ...

1. Itô’s formula for Walsh’s Brownian motion Let E = R2; we will use polar co-ordinates (r, α) to denote points in E. We denote by C(E) the space of all continuous functions on E. For f ∈ C(E), we define fα(r) = f (r, α), r > 0, α ∈ [0, 2π [. Throughout this paper we fix μ a probability measure on [0, 2π [, also we define f (r) =  2π 0 f (r, α) μ(dα), r > 0. Let (P t )t≥0 be the semigroup of a...

Abstract Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging task that involves searching natural images related to given hand-drawn sketch under the zero-shot scene. The previous approach projected and features into low-dimensional common space for retrieval, used semantic transfer knowledge of seen unseen classes. However, it not effective enough align multimodal when projecting...