The trace formula for the evolution operator associated with nonlinear stochastic flows with weak additive noise is cast in the path integral formalism. We integrate over the neighbourhood of a given saddlepoint exactly by means of a smooth conjugacy, a locally analytic nonlinear change of field variables. The perturbative corrections are transferred to the corresponding Jacobian, which we expa...

Abstract Introduction Insomnia and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) are highly comorbid, due in part to the use of alcohol as a sleep aid among individuals with insomnia. Initial studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), first-line treatment insomnia, is moderately successful at improving both drinking outcomes heavy drinkers However, CBT-I not widely available. Digit...

The development of globalization and integration requires a modern workforce with 21st-century skills, especially intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Thanks to the National Foreign Language 2020 project, new English textbooks were introduced Vietnamese students hope prepare them for ICC. Research on how EFL teachers explored teaching materials has been made, but previous findings show...

There are a number of NP-hard optimization problems where the search space can be characterized as an elementary landscape. For these search spaces the evaluation function is an eigenfunction of the Laplacian matrix that describes the neighborhood structure of the search space. Problems such as the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Graph Coloring, the Frequency Assignment Problem, as well as Mi...

In Hong Kong, the average annual cost of haemodialysis (HD) per patient is more than double of that of peritoneal dialysis (PD). As the number of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has surged, it has posed a great financial burden to the government and society. A PD-first policy has been implemented in Hong Kong for three decades based on its cost-effectiveness, and has achieved succe...

2MASS J03202839−0446358AB is a recently identified, late-type M dwarf/T dwarf spectroscopic binary system for which both the radial velocity orbit for the primary and spectral types for both components have been determined. By combining these measurements with predictions from four different sets of evolutionary models, we determine a minimum age of 2.0±0.3 Gyr for this system, corresponding to...

In Hong Kong, the average annual cost of haemodialysis (HD) per patient is more than double of that of peritoneal dialysis (PD). As the number of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has surged, it has posed a great financial burden to the government and society. A PD-first policy has been implemented in Hong Kong for three decades based on its cost-effectiveness, and has achieved succe...