lesions and active scans. Significantly higher rates of disease activity in spring/summer compared to autumn/winter are apparent. "active scan" rates reflect relative counts of exams with one or more new lesions Fig.1: Example shows maximum intensity projection of all activity over 3 months with Gd-DTPA (left) and PD-weighted change (center & right) with monthly intervals. Several activity loci...

Study presented in this paper is focused on comparison and statistical assessment of differences between the selected Level 2 products satellite mission Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE). Global monthly gravity field models terms spherical harmonic coefficients produced by three institutes GRACE Science Data System are compared with partially independent MASCON global model. Detailed ...

The article proposes an approach to forecasting mean temperature and total precipitation for the upcoming month, based on study of regularities influence statistical characteristics previous periods them. Among predictors, along with basic characteristics, we use fractality index which is indicator randomness/ determinism climate series. Within framework this approach, have developed models dif...

In previous work the authors demonstrated an empirical relation, in the form of an index, between U.S. monthly tornado activity andmonthly averaged environmental parameters.Here a detailed comparison ismade between the index and reported tornado activity. The index is a function of two environmental parameters taken from the North American Regional Reanalysis: convective precipitation (cPrcp) a...

Definitions. a) A matrix is called a complex matrix if all its entries are complex numbers. (In particular, any vector in C is considered a n× 1 complex matrix.) b) For any complex matrix A, we denote the matrix A T by A∗. c) Let U2 (C) be the group of all unitary 2× 2 complex matrices. In other words, let U2 (C) = { U ∈ GL2 (C) | U∗ = U−1 } . d) A complex matrix A is called Hermitian if it sat...

Beginning with this issue, a new table will appear monthly in the MMWR:"Table V. Potential Years of Life Lost, Deaths, and Death Rates, by Cause of Death, and Estimated Number of Physician Contacts, by Principal Diagnosis" (see page 557). By displaying a variety of measures that gauge the importance and relative magnitude of certain public health issues, this table will call attention to those ...

BACKGROUND Patient's satisfaction with monitoring frequency is of interest when implementing six-monthly monitoring for well-controlled type 2 diabetes patients. Here we want to determine the satisfaction of well-controlled type 2 diabetes patients with either three-monthly or six-monthly diabetes monitoring and their future preference. METHODS Survey among 2215 well-controlled type 2 diabete...