among 2379 patients with upper urinary tract stones who underwent eswl (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy) at sina hospitál using the siemens lithostar, 638 developed stone street (steinstrasse). of these, 516 (81%) passed all of the stone fragments spontaneously and no treatment was required, 90 cases (14%) had more eswl sessions to complete the treatment, and 30 (4.7%) required further in...

‎We study $R$-groups for $p$-adic inner forms of quasi-split special unitary groups‎. ‎We prove Arthur's conjecture‎, ‎the isomorphism between the Knapp-Stein $R$-group and the Langlands-Arthur $R$-group‎, ‎for quasi-split special unitary groups and their inner forms‎. ‎Furthermore‎, ‎we investigate the invariance of the Knapp-Stein $R$-group within $L$-packets and between inner forms‎. ‎This w...

We present a certain geometrical interpretation of the natural numbers, where these numbers appear as joint products of 5and 3-multiples located at specified positions in a revolving chamber. Numbers without factors 2, 3 or 5 appear at eight such positions, and any prime number larger than 7 manifests at one of these eight positions after a specified amount of rotations of the chamber. Our appr...

An important task in computational statistics and machine learning is to approximate a posterior distribution p(x) with an empirical measure supported on a set of representative points {xi}i=1. This paper focuses on methods where the selection of points is essentially deterministic, with an emphasis on achieving accurate approximation when n is small. To this end, we present Stein Points. The i...

Financial Disclosure(s): The author(s) have no proprietary or commercial interest in any materials discussed in this article. Financial support received from the National Eye Institute K23 Mentored Clinician Scientist Award (1K23EY019511, to J.D.S.) and a Research to Prevent Blindness “Physician Scientist” Award. Author Contributions: Conception and design: Elam, Blachley, Stein Data collection...

Is a complex space X which is the union of an increasing sequence X1 ⊂ X2 ⊂ X3 ⊂ · · · of open Stein subspaces itself a Stein space ? From the begining this question has held great interest in Stein theory. The special case when {Xj}j≥1 is a sequence of Stein domains in I C n had been proved long time ago by Behnke and Stein [2]. In 1956, Stein [13] answered positively the question under the ad...