Alternate Shewhart-type statistical control charts, called "g" and "ft" charts, are developed and evaluated for monitoring the number of cases between hospital-acquired infections and other adverse events, such as heart surgery complications, catheter-related infections, surgical site infections, contaminated needle sticks, and other iatrically induced outcomes. These new charts, based on inver...

Classical conditioning is important in humans to learn and predict events in terms of associations between stimuli and to produce responses based on these associations. Social robots that have a classical conditioning skill like humans will have an advantage to interact with people more naturally, socially and effectively. In this paper, we present a novel classical conditioning mechanism and d...

Computational models and intracellular recordings were combined to characterize synaptic bombardment in neocortical pyramidal neurons during active states in vivo. Application of tetrodotoxin revealed that synaptic activity accounts for up to 80% of the input conductance. These experiments were replicated assuming that excitatory and inhibitory synapses release randomly at high rates (1}5 Hz). ...

In the companion abstract in this proceedings (Parsons and Yoneyama 1998), we discussed dry intrusions and their origins. It was found that these dry intrusions over the equatorial waters actually originated in the middle latitude westerly winds. The reader is referred to that paper for discussion of the origins and for further background information on these dry intrusion events. In this paper...

The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission landed on the surface of Mars November 26, 2018. One scientific instruments in payload that is essential to SEIS package (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) which includes a very broadband short period seismometer. More than one year since landing, continues be fully operational has been ...

The energy source has remained to be the great mystery in understanding of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) if the events are placed at cosmological distances as indicated by a number of recent observations. The currently popular models include (1)the merger of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole binary and (2)the hypernova scenario of the collapse of a massive member in a close bin...

A companion of Ostrowski's inequality for functions of bounded variation and applications are given.

Several studies of phloem unloading have failed to distinguish between transport events occurring at the sieve element/companion cell boundary and subsequent short-distance transport through parenchyma cells. Indirect evidence has been obtained for symplastic unloading in storage and utilization sinks. In other sinks transfer to the apoplast may occur, but not necessarily at the sieve element/c...