We compare multivariate aging notions of conditionally independent lifetimes with corresponding univariate aging notions of their one-dimensional marginal distributions. Let G(t|θ) (t ≥ 0) be a one-dimensional survival function indexed by θ; for simplicity’s sake, we assume here that θ is a non-negative scalar quantity; let, furthermore, Π be a probability distribution over [0,∞) and consider t...

Nowadays, with the development of networked technologies and the great expansion of video games industry, almost all video games propose a multi-player mode. Development of portables consoles which integrate 802.11 technology offers to people the opportunity to play anywhere, at any time and with anybody. However, wireless networked conditions are not always optimal and directly impact the qual...

AIM This study aimed to estimate the prevalence, incidence rate, and lifetime risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF) in a population-based study of Swedish men. METHODS AND RESULTS The study is a part of 'The Study of Men Born in 1913', which is a longitudinal prospective cohort study of 855 men born in 1913 and living in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. They were followed from the age ...

The different purposes present within a distributed information environment create the potential for repositories to enhance their metadata by capitalising on the diversity of metadata available for any given object. This paper presents three conceptual reference models required to achieve this optimisation of metadata workflow: the ecology of repositories, the object lifecycle model, and the m...

background: the brown-banded cockroach, supella longipalpa , is not as common as the german cockroach in iran. this species seeks out areas that are very warm most of the time, and prefer warmer area than what german cock­roaches pre­fer. there is relationship between development of instars and diet of cockroaches. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of different diets on biology,...

It is generally considered as self evident that the lifetime of our vacuum in the landscape of string theory cannot be much shorter than the current age of the universe. Here I show why this lower limit is invalid. A certain type of " parallel universes " is a necessary consequence of the string-landscape dynamics and might well allow us to " survive " vacuum decay. As a consequence our stringy...

In this paper the performance of the proposed DLMT and CLMT algorithms are compared. These proposed algorithms tend to extend the node lifetime. Decentralized lifetime maximizing tree(DLMT) features in nodes with higher energy to be chosen as data aggregating parents while Centralized Lifetime Maximizing Tree(CLMT) features with the identification of the bottleneck node to collect data in a cen...

In October 2011, we had our 7th General Meeting of the Society in San Diego organized by Guy Salvesen, Matt Bogyo and their colleagues. I would like to thank Matt and Guy on the behalf of the Society for all the hard work it took to organize an excellent meeting and for the great hospitality. You can read more about it in the complete meeting report in this issue. At the Meeting we welcomed Chr...

i We present single photon annihilation results from the MARK II detector at PEP based on 100 pb-l of integrated luminosity taken at a center of mass energy fi = 29 GeV. A study of inclusive leptons for momenta 2 2 GeV/c yield the average semileptonic branching ratios of bottom (b) and charm (c) quarks and information about the b fragmentation function. A measurement of the bottom hadron lifeti...

Temporal events are typically visualized on a time line indicating the date they occurred. This perspective is useful when the questions one wishes to answer are related to the date of occurrence. This view, however, makes it difficult to identify patterns related to the relative duration between events or the sequential order. We demonstrate how the simple notion of temporal alignment by some ...