The diffusion of growing or evaporating two-dimensional clusters is investigated. At equilibrium, it is well known that the mean square displacement (MSD) of the cluster center of mass is linear in time. In nonequilibrium conditions, we find that the MSD exhibits a nonlinear time dependence, leading to three regimes: (i) during curvature-driven evaporation, the MSD shows a square-root singulari...

In this paper, we propose a Two-dimensional locality preserving projection based on maximum scatter difference (2D-DLPP/MSD). 2D-LPP/MSD use additive principle to preserve the locality by maximizing the between-class scatter and within-class scatter instead of using multiplicative principle of 2D-DLPP. Theoretically, we also discuss the influence of balance factor α on performance and reveal th...

The mean-square displacement (MSD) was measured by neutron scattering at various temperatures and pressures for a number of molecular glass-forming liquids. The MSD is invariant along the glass-transition line at the pressure studied, thus establishing an "intrinsic" Lindemann criterion for any given liquid. A one-to-one connection between the MSD's temperature dependence and the liquid's fragi...

BACKGROUND The aim was to assess time trend of mortality with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) as underlying cause of death in Sweden from 1997 to 2013. METHODS We obtained data on MSD as underlying cause of death across age and sex groups from the National Board of Health and Welfare's Cause of Death Register. Age-standardized mortality rates per million population for all MSD, its six major ...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aims of this study is to investigate the prevalence of patients seeking care due to different musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at primary health care centres (PHCs), to chart different factors such as symptoms, diagnosis and actions prescribed for patients that visited the PHCs due to MSD and to make comparisons regarding differences due to gender, age and rur...

By monitoring the thermally driven displacements of imbedded polystyrene microspheres via video fluorescence microscopy, we quantified the microstructural and micromechanical heterogeneities of wheat gliadin suspensions. We found that the degree of heterogeneity of the suspensions, as measured by the width and skewness of the microspheres' mean squared displacement (MSD) distribution, increased...

Multiple-symbol detection (MSD) is a powerful technique to improve the power efficiency of noncoherent receivers. In this paper, we derive the MSD metric for impulse-radio ultrawideband for the general case of biorthogonal pulse-position modulation (bPPM) and relate it to its special cases BPSK and PPM. This unified treatment allows us to conduct a comparison of MSD of amplitudeand pulse-positi...

The modified Simiao decoctions (MSD) have been wildly applied in the treatment of gouty arthritis in China. However, the evidence needs to be evaluated by a systematic review and meta-analysis. After filtering, twenty-four randomised, controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the effects of MSD and anti-inflammation medications and/or urate-lowering therapies in patients with gouty arthritis were incl...

Current DSM-IV somatoform diagnoses may inadequately capture many somatizing patients in primary care. By using data from two studies (1,000 and 258 patients, respectively), the authors determined 1) the optimal threshold on a checklist of 15 physical symptoms to screen for a recently proposed somatoform diagnosis, multisomatoform disorder (MSD), and 2) the concordance between MSD and somatizat...

This paper presents the evaluation of seismic performance and cost-effectiveness of a multiple slim-type damper system developed for the vibration control of earthquake excited buildings. The multiple slim-type damper (MSD) that consists of several small slim-type dampers and linkage units can control damping capacity easily by changing the number of small dampers. To evaluate the performance o...