Rounded atelectasis is atelectasis of the peripheral part of the lung, typically in contact with thickened pleura, featuring characteristic computed tomography findings. In this case, a 61-year-old man with history of asbestos exposure presented with a right-middle-lobe nodule on chest radiograph, with computed tomography findings suspicious for neoplasm. The patient underwent surgical resectio...

This work deals with numerical techniques to compute electrostatic fields in devices with rounded corners in 2D situations. The approach leads to the solution of two problems: one on the device where rounded corners are replaced by sharp corners and the other on an unbounded domain representing the shape of the rounded corner after an appropriate rescaling. Both problems are solved using differ...

Digital video filming of the thryroid prominence was used to measure larynx height in German vowels, with focus on contrasts involving front unrounded, front rounded and back rounded vowels. The study aimed to provide a foundation for interpreting the acoustic consequences of articulatory manoeuvres not only at the larynx but also elsewhere in the vocal tract. Results showed the expected patter...

Numerical reproducibility failures rise in parallel computation because floating-point summation is non-associative. Massively parallel and optimized executions dynamically modify the floating-point operation order. Hence, numerical results may change from one run to another. We propose to ensure reproducibility by extending as far as possible the IEEE-754 correct rounding property to larger op...

Given a multivariate real (or complex) polynomial p and a domain D, we would like to decide whether an algorithm exists to evaluate p(x) accurately for all x ∈ D using rounded real (or complex) arithmetic. Here “accurately” means with relative error less than 1, i.e., with some correct leading digits. The answer depends on the model of rounded arithmetic: We assume that for any arithmetic opera...

Nematodes pervade Earth's biosphere and occupy innumerable ecological niches. The role of Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for developmental processes has encouraged us to cultivate a second nematode, Pristionchus pacificus, as a comparative counterpoint to address questions in development, behavior and ecology in nematode evolution. We hope that this endeavor, now more than a decade underway,...

All data are digitized, and hence are essentially integers rather than true real numbers. Ordinarily this causes no difficulties since the truncation or rounding usually occurs below the noise level. However, in some instances, when the instruments or data delivery and storage systems are designed with less than optimal regard for the data or the subsequent data analysis, the effects of digitiz...

The efficiency of hierarchical matrices is based on the approximate evaluation of usual matrix operations. The introduced approximation error may, however, lead to a loss of important matrix properties. In this article we present a technique which preserves the positive definitness of a matrix independently of the approximation quality. The importance of this technique is illustrated by an elli...