This paper presents a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)-accelerated and LTS (Local-time-Step)-based finite volume Shallow Water Model (SWM). The model performance is compared against the other five versions (Single CPU with/without LTS, Multi-CPU version) by simulating three flow scenarios: an idealized dam-break flow; experimental field-scale scenario of tidal flows. Satisfactory agreements betwe...

A common problem with the existing blind multi-user CDMA detectors is that their performance is very sensitive to the Signature Waveform Mismatch (SWM) caused by channel distortion. In this paper we consider the problem of designing a blind multi-user CDMA detector which is robust to the SWM. We present a convex formulation for this problem by using the Second Order Cone (SOC) programming. We a...

The aims of this cross-sectional comparative study was to compare the results of Semmes-Weinstein monofilament testing (SWM) and moving 2-point discrimination (M2PD) with four tests of functional sensibility: recognition of objects, discrimination of size and texture and detection of dots. Ninety-eight leprosy in- and outpatients at Green Pastures Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal were tested with eac...

The objective of the present study was to compare the warm cold perception thresholds (WPT), cold perception thresholds (CPT) and the warm and cold perception interval (WCPI) determined in our previous study with the touch-pressure thresholds, in leprosy-suspected skin lesions ('patch'). Thermal testing was conducted using a thermal sensory analyser TSA-2001 (Medoc Ltd., Israel) and the method ...

BACKGROUND Sexual reproduction in animals requires the production of highly specialized motile sperm cells that can navigate to and fertilize ova. During sperm differentiation, nonmotile spermatids are remodeled into motile spermatozoa through a process known as spermiogenesis. In nematodes, spermiogenesis, or sperm activation, involves a rapid cellular morphogenesis that converts unpolarized r...

We present a hierarchical architecture and learning algorithm for visual recognition and other visual inference tasks such as imagination, reconstruction of occluded images, and expectation-driven segmentation. Using properties of biological vision for guidance, we posit a stochastic generative world model and from it develop a simplified world model (SWM) based on a tractable variational appro...

BACKGROUND Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) positron emission tomography (PET) neuroimaging is a powerful research tool to characterize amyloid evolution in the brain. Quantification of amyloid load critically depends on (i) the choice of a reference region (RR) and (ii) on the selection of regions of interest (ROIs) to derive the standard uptake value ratios (SUVRs). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sta...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of anodyne monochromatic infrared photo energy (MIRE) in-home treatments over a 90-day period to improve peripheral sensation and self-reported quality of life in individuals with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled clinical trail. We randomly assigned 69 individuals with d...

A comparison of signiicant wave heights H s was performed using satellite altimeter data available between 1978 to 1994 from SEASAT, GEOSAT, ERS-1 and TOPEX. The purpose was to estimate the degree of accuracy between the diierent instruments. Statistical properties of H s as obtained from the altimeters are found to be compatible with those from in situ measurements in the North Atlantic. All H...