Introduction. – Acoustic MR-scanner noise that is produced during gradient switching affects task-evoked neural activation patterns in the brain, which constitutes a confound in the context of fMRI [1]. Sparse clustered volume acquisition methods exist that deal with these interactions [2,3]. In recent years, ‘resting state’ measurements have gained popularity [4]. So far, the effects of scanne...

Traditional models of bank runs do not allow for herding e¤ects, because in these models withdrawal decisions are assumed to be made simultaneously. I extend the banking model to allow a depositor to choose his withdrawal time. When he withdraws depends on his consumption type (patient or impatient), his private, noisy signal about the quality of the bank’s portfolio, and the withdrawal histori...

The plant at Värnamo feeds about 6 MW electricity to the grid, as well as 9 MW heat to the district heating system in the city of Värnamo, from a total fuel input equivalent to 18 MW. The plant is an important step forward in developing highly efficient and environmentally acceptable technologies based on biomass fuels. The accumulated operating experience per 1999 amounts to about 8 500 hours ...

The interaction of BRICS stock markets with the United States is studied using an asymmetric Granger causality test based on the frequency domain. This type of analysis allows for both positive and negative shocks over different horizons. There is a clear bivariate causality that runs both ways between the United States stock market and the respective BRICS markets. In addition, both negative a...

In this paper we present our participation as SINAI research group from the University of Jaén at Task3 Patient-Centred Information Retrieval. Although only two runs are allowed to be submitted, we have tried several strategies using different models and parameters in order to check the effectiveness of our system. The main 3 approaches try to apply query feedback using MeSH expansion, search e...

A family of new heart rate asymmetry measures is introduced, namely deceleration and acceleration runs, as well as entropic measures summarizing their distribution. We introduce the theoretical run distribution for shuffled data and use it as a reference for interpreting the results. The measures defined in the paper are applied to actual 24 h Holter ECG recordings from 87 healthy people, and i...