This paper presents a model for Collective Free Improvisation (CFI), a form of improvisation that can be defined as referent-free. While very simple, it captures some interesting mechanisms of CFI. We use two variables: the intention and the objective. Both variables are used to describe the production and organization of the improvisers’ signals. Using a system of Landau equations, we propose ...

-Corporate inventory systems have historically had a greater spatial and temporal intensi ty than is common in the public sector . For many corporat ions, these inventory systems might be descr ibed as dynamic in that current es t imates rely on a small amount of recent data and a large amount of information resulting from the imputat ion of older data that have been subjected to various growth...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the pathogenetic predictors of collateral channels in a large cohort of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). BACKGROUND The frequency distribution of collateral flow in patients with CAD is unknown. Only small qualitative studies have investigated which factors influence the development of collateral channels. METHODS In 450 patients with one- to th...

Background: Complement Factor I (CFI) is a serine protease with an important role in complement alternative pathway regulation. Complete factor I deficiency is strongly associated with severe infections. Approximately 30 families with this deficiency have been described worldwide. Patients and methods: We have studied five new Spanish families suffering from CFI deficiency. From 19 screened peo...

A novel route for preparing 5cap mimics and capped RNAs: phosphate-modified cap analogues obtained via click chemistry S. Walczak, A. Nowicka, D. Kubacka, K. Fac, P. Wanat, S. Mroczek, J. Kowalska and J. Jemielity Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2c, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wa...

To improve the monitoring precision of lake chlorophyll a (Chl-a), this paper presents a fusion method based on Choquet Fuzzy Integral (CFI) to estimate the Chl-a concentration. A group of BPNN models are designed. The output of multiple BPNN model is fused by the CFI. Meanwhile, to resolve the over-fitting problem caused by a small number of training sets, we design an algorithm that fully con...

The channel fluorine implantation (CFI) process was integrated with the Si₃N₄ contact etch stop layer (SiN CESL) uniaxial-strained n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (nMOSFET) with the hafnium oxide/silicon oxynitride (HfO₂/SiON) gate stack. The SiN CESL process clearly improves basic electrical performance, due to induced uniaxial tensile strain within the channel. How...

Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is an important security property that needs to be enforced to prevent controlflow hijacking attacks. Recent attacks have demonstrated that existing CFI protections for COTS binaries are too permissive, and vulnerable to sophisticated code reusing attacks. Accounting for control flow restrictions imposed at higher levels of semantics is key to increasing CFI precisi...

Despite the important roles families play in the lives of many individuals with mental illness across cultures, there is a dearth of data worldwide on how family members perceive the process of cultural assessment as well as to how to best include them. This study addresses this gap in our knowledge through analysis of data collected across six countries as part of a DSM-5 Field Trial of the Cu...

A new index is proposed for describing the degree of folding of a planar curve segment. Based on a basic concept from integral geometry, the Curve Folding Index (CFI) of a curve segment is defined to be the expected number of intersections that a random line has with the curve. The CFI provides a simple measure to characterize planar curves in terms of the degree of folding, and is shown to be ...