Neck muscle vibration was applied to human subjects to assess the influences of neck abnormal proprioceptive input on the organization and execution of gait. Subjects walked blindfolded to a previously seen target, located straight ahead at ~4 m. Vibration was applied on the right side of the neck, both during and before walking. The variables measured were length, duration, and velocity of tra...

In this paper we introduce a concept of asymptotic log-likelihood ratio as a measure of deviation of the joint distribution from the product of their margins, we give the generalized strong law of large numbers (strong law expressed by inequalities, i.e. strong deviation theorems) for stochastic process indexed by a tree. As corollaries, we obtain some known results.

This study measured the precision of a quantitative laboratory-developed real-time PCR test for cytomegalovirus performed at three different clinical laboratories that use the same methodology. The overall standard deviation (adjusted for analyte level) was 0.18 log(10) copies/ml, and there was no significant relationship between standard deviation and analytical measuring range.

In this paper we refine the notion of tree-decomposition by introducing acyclic (R,D)-clustering, where clusters are subsets of vertices of a graph and R and D are the maximum radius and the maximum diameter of these subsets. We design a routing scheme for graphs admitting induced acyclic (R,D)-clustering where the induced radius and the induced diameter of each cluster are at most 2. We show t...

An approach to the Shannon and Rényi entropy maximization problems with constraints on the mean and law invariant deviation measure for a random variable has been developed. The approach is based on the representation of law invariant deviation measures through corresponding convex compact sets of nonnegative concave functions. A solution to the problem has been shown to have an alpha-concave d...

Motion artefacts in time-of-flight range imaging are treated as a feature to measure. Methods for measuring linear radial velocity from range imaging cameras are developed and tested. With the measurement of velocity, the range to the position of the target object at the start of the data acquisition period is computed, effectively correcting the motion error. A new phase based pseudo-quadratur...

In front of the LMC molecular hydrogen is found in absorption near 0 kms, being local disk gas, near +60 kms in an intermediate velocity cloud, and near +120 kms, being a high velocity halo cloud. The nature of the gas is discussed based on four Orfeus far UV spectra of LMC stars and including data from the ground and from the IUE satellite. The local gas is cool and, given a span of sight line...