The exact large deviation function (ldf) for the fluctuations of the energy density field is computed for a chain of Ising (or more generally Potts) spins driven by a zero-temperature (dissipative) Glauber dynamics and sustained in a non trivial stationary regime by an arbitrary energy injection mechanism at the boundary of the system. It is found that this ldf is independent of the dynamical d...

The local dependence function (LDF) describes changes in the correlation structure of continuous bivariate random variables along their range. Bivariate density functions with Beta marginals can be used to model jointly a wide variety of data with bounded outcomes in the (0,1) range, e.g. proportions. In this paper we obtain expressions for the LDF of bivariate densities constructed using three...

BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction precedes atherosclerosis. Vasodilation induced by acetylcholine (ACh) is a specific test of endothelial function. Reproducibility of laser techniques such as laser-Doppler-flowmetry (LDF) and Laser-speckle-contrast-imaging (LSCI) to detect ACh vasodilation is debated and results expressions lack standardization. We aimed to study at a 7-day interval (i) the in...

INTRODUCTION Despite some evidence that anxiety may affect length of stay (LOS), relatively little inquiry exists regarding this in neurosurgical literature. OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of anxiety on LOS after elective lumbar decompression and fusion (LDF) surgery. METHODS The medical records of 307 patients who consecutively underwent elective LDF surgery from October 1, 2010, thr...

Dear Sir: Knowledge of the longterm effect of weight loss on adipose tissue blood flow (ATBF) is scarce. We read with great interest the paper by Rossi et al. [3], reporting the results of a study using laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF), where baseline thigh ATBF was lower in morbidly obese subjects compared to ageand sex-matched controls (4.8 vs. 79.9 perfusion units /PU). These results confirm se...

The present study aimed to evaluate adipose tissue blood flow (ATBF) by means of laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF) in humans. Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) and straining known to affect epidermal blood flow through the autonomic nervous system were performed in 11 lean and 11 obese female volunteers. ATBF changes were compared between both groups and also discriminated from skin blood flow (S...

The etiology of stroke in sickle cell disease is unclear, but may involve abnormal red blood cell (RBC) adhesion to the vascular endothelium and altered vasomotor tone regulation. Therefore, we examined both the adhesion of sickle (SS)-RBCs to cerebral microvessels and the effect of SS-RBCs on cerebral blood flow when the nitric oxide (NO) pathway was inhibited. The effect of SS-RBCs was studie...

We study the semileptonic branching fraction of B-meson into higher resonance of charmed meson D by using the Bjorken sum rule and the heavy quark effective theory(HQET). This sum rule and the current experiment of B-meson semileptonic decay into D and D predict that the branching ratio into Dlνl is about 1.7%. This predicted value is larger than the value obtained by the various theoretical ha...