In recent works of the author [Found. Phys. 36 (2006) 1701–1717; Math. Comput. Simul. 74 (2007) 93–103], the argument has een made that Hertz’s equations of electrodynamics reflect the material invariance (indifference) of the latter. Then the principle of aterial invariance was postulated in lieu of Lorentz covariance, and the respective absolute medium was named themetacontinuum. Here, we go ...

BACKGROUND A deeper engagement into medical decision-making is demanded by treatment guidelines for patients with affective disorders. There is to date little evidence on what facilitates active behaviour of patients with depression. In general medicine 'question prompt sheets' (QPSs) have been shown to change patients' behaviour in the consultation and improve treatment satisfaction but there ...

UNLABELLED This study describes and validates a new method for automatic segmentation of left ventricular mass (LVM) in myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) images. This is important for estimating the size of a perfusion defect as percentage of the left ventricle. METHODS A total of 101 patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease underwent both rest and stress MPS and MRI. A new aut...

It has been shown that satisfying state and control constraints while optimizing quadratic costs subject to desired (sets of) convergence for affine systems can be reduced a sequence of programs (QPs) by using Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) Lyapunov (CLFs). One the main challenges in this approach is ensuring feasibility these QPs, especially under tight bounds safety high relative degree. Th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the various speech processing strategies supported by the Clarion S-Series implant processor. DESIGN Five different speech-processing strategies [the Continuous Interleaved Sampler (CIS), the Simultaneous Analog Stimulation (SAS), the Paired Pulsatile Sampler (PPS), the Quadruple Pulsatile Sampler (QPS) and the hybrid (HYB) strategies] were implemented...

A key challenge in the representation of qualitative, multi-criteria preferences is to find a compact and expressive representation. Various frameworks have been introduced, each of which with its own distinguishing features. In this paper we introduce a new representation framework called qualitative preference systems (QPS), which combines priority, cardinality and conditional preferences. Mo...

We take non-Hermitian Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper models and quasiperiodic Kitaev chains as examples to demonstrate the equivalence superposition of real imaginary potentials (QPs) on inducing localization single-particle states. prove this by analytically computing Lyapunov exponents (or inverse lengths) for systems with purely QPs. Moreover, when superposed same frequency, QPs are coherent localiz...

We propose a novel lazy learning method called QPAL. QPAL does not simply utilize a kind of distance measure between the query instance and training instances as many lazy learning methods do. It attempts to discover useful patterns known as query projections, which are customized to the query instance. The discovery for useful QPs is conducted in an innovative way. QPAL can guarantee to discov...

To study the effect of disorder on quantum phase slips (QPSs) in superconducting wires, we consider the plasmon-only model where disorder can be incorporated into a first-principles instanton calculation. We consider weak but general finite-range disorder and compute the form factor in the QPS rate associated with momentum transfer. We find that the system maps onto dissipative quantum mechanic...