Abstract Model-based control algorithms have potential advantages for resistive wall mode (RWM) feedback control. In this study, a physics model of the RWM response to externally applied perturbation fields is validated against experiments in reversed field pinch (RFP). The experimental characterization plasma performed EXTRAP T2R device by excitation nonaxisymmetric magnetic utilizing an exter...

OBJECTIVE To quantitatively demonstrate and classify the histopathologic changes in the cochlea of the human temporal bones with labyrinthitis ossificans (LO). STUDY DESIGN Comparative human temporal bone study. SETTING Tertiary academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We compared 23 temporal bone specimens from 19 deceased donors with LO associated with the round window membrane (RW...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that both nicorandil and magnesium have a cardioprotective effect in experimental ischemia - reperfusion models. In the present study, the cardioprotective effects of nicorandil and magnesium as an adjunct to reperfusion therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were compared. METHODS AND RESULTS Forty consecutive patients with AMI caused by oc...

BACKGROUND Low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) assesses myocardial viability at the early stage of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but its assessment is subjective and variable. Automated function image (AFI) determines global longitudinal peak strain (GLPS) based on tissue tracking technique. The ability of GLPS obtained by AFI during dobutamine stress to assess myocardial via...

This paper presents a combination of strategies for conversion rate (CVR) prediction deployed at the Yahoo! demand side platform (DSP) Brightroll, targeting at modeling extremely high dimensional, sparse data with limited human intervention. We propose a novel probabilistic generative model by tightly integrating components of natural language processing, dynamic transfer learning and scalable ...

Recent experiments in the DIII-D tokamak #J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion 42, 614 !2002"$ show that the resistive wall mode !RWM" can be stabilized by smaller values of plasma rotation than previously reported. Stable discharges have been observed with beta up to 1.4 times the no-wall kink stability limit and ion rotation velocity !measured from CVI emission" less than 0.3% of the Alfvén speed at all...

Wound matrix materials are used to improve the regeneration of dermal and epidermal layers in both acute and chronic wounds. Contemporary wound matrices are primarily composed of biologic materials such as processed xenogeneic and allogeneic tissues. Unfortunately, existing biologic wound matrices possess multiple limitations including poor longevity, durability, strength, and enzymatic resista...

The Random Walk Metropolis (RWM) algorithm is a MetropolisHastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm designed to sample from a given target distribution π with Lebesgue density on R . Like any other Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, RWM constructs a Markov chain by randomly proposing a new position (the “proposal move”), which is then accepted or rejected according to a rule which makes the chain...

We show how two-point correlation functions derived within nonisotropic random wave models are in fact quantum results that are obtained in the appropriate limit in terms of the exact Green function of the quantum system. Since no statistical model is required for this derivation, this shows that taking the wave functions as Gaussian processes is the only assumption of those random wave models....

We connect known results about diffusion limits of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms to the Computer Science notion of algorithm complexity. Our main result states that any diffusion limit of a Markov process implies a corresponding complexity bound (in an appropriate metric). We then combine this result with previously-known MCMC diffusion limit results to prove that under appropriate...