Time-lapse imaging is a powerful tool for studying cellular dynamics and cell behavior over long periods of time to acquire detailed functional information. However, commercially available time-lapse imaging systems are expensive and this has limited a broader implementation of this technique in low-resource environments. Further, the availability of time-lapse imaging systems often present wor...

PURPOSE Successful weight maintenance after weight loss is exceedingly rare. The present study aimed to identify psychological predictors of lapses and weight maintenance. METHODS Self-efficacy, coping, and perceptions of lapses were examined as potential predictors of lapse frequency and weight maintenance (percentage weight loss maintained). Participants included 67 adults (85.3 % women) wh...

This study used ecological momentary assessment data from adult daily smokers attempting to quit smoking to assess relations between exposure to contextual risk factors and cessation failure, latency to a first smoking lapse, or progression from lapse to relapse (smoking 7 days in a row). Participants were adult, daily smokers enrolled in a randomized controlled clinical trial of bupropion SR a...

By their very nature, biological systems are dynamic, and a proper understanding of the cellular and molecular processes underlying living organisms and how to manipulate them is a prerequisite to combat diseases and improve human health care. One of the major challenges of current biomedical research, therefore, is to unravel not just the spatial organization of these complex systems, but thei...

The notion of “sending a secret message to the future” has been around for over a decade. Despite this, no solution to this problem is in common use, or even attained widespread acceptance as a fundamental cryptographic primitive. We name, construct and specify an implementation for this new cryptographic primitive, “Time-Lapse Cryptography”, with which a sender can encrypt a message so that it...

First, it does the work of the traditional Lapse constraint (cf. Selkirk 1984) preventing a metrical foot from becoming too large and hence imposes an upper bound of binarity. Second, it prevents feet from drifting too far apart--at most one unparsed syllable can intervene (a constraint similar to this effect was independently discovered by Kager 1994); finally, another effect of Lapse unique t...

OBJECTIVES This study focused on lapse shortly after an attempt to quit smoking. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies have mapped real-time situational factors that induce lapses in everyday life. However, the possible role of nonsmoking intention is disregarded in the dynamic context of daily life, whereas intention plays a key role in behavior change and shifts during smoking cessati...

The financial guarantees embedded in variable annuity (VA) contracts expose insurers to a wide range of risks, lapse risk being one of them. When policyholders’ lapse behavior differs from the assumptions used to hedge VA contracts, the effectiveness of dynamic hedging strategies can be significantly impaired. By studying how the fee structure and surrender charges affect surrender incentives, ...

Zoll cites the case of Kukuya, with trisyllabic patterns of LLL, HHH, HLL, LLH and LHL. The absence of *HHL and LHH motivates the ranking of CLASH > LAPSE, as these patterns violate CLASH Hausa non-derived trisyllabic forms require the opposite ranking. The tone patterns are LHL, HLH, LHH and HHL, but there are no *LLH or *HLL patterns, which violate LAPSE. Nevertheless, edge-in forms as in (1c...