This paper aims at bringing together two debates in metaphysics that so far have been .kept separate: the debate about determinism vs. indeterminism as de re modality on the one hand, and the debate about persistence on the other hand. Both debates significantly involve talk of things. We will show that working out a proper semantics for singular terms and an accompanying theory of things, moti...

In this paper we establish the new notion of persistence distance for discrete signals and study its main properties. The idea of persistence distance is based on recent developments in topological persistence for assessment and simplification of topological features of data sets. Particularly, we establish a close relationship between persistence distance and discrete total variation for finit...

This paper shows that the space of persistence diagrams has properties that allow for the definition of probability measures which support expectations, variances, percentiles and conditional probabilities. This provides a theoretical basis for a statistical treatment of persistence diagrams, for example computing sample averages and sample variances of persistence diagrams. We first prove that...

Dividends distribution of Chinese listed companies is irregular, and the level of dividends can’t match that of earnings persistence. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between dividends distribution, including payout policy and level of cash dividends, and earnings persistence. Different from current literature, this paper is the first to investigate the relationship between ...

BACKGROUND The association between the BRAF mutation and persistence/recurrence was investigated in patients with classical papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) at a BRAF mutation prevalent area. METHODS A total of 282 patients with total thyroidectomy and prophylactic central neck dissection were included in this study. The BRAF mutation was evaluated with cytology specimen using dual priming o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical predictors of the persistence/recurrence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) after cervical conization. METHODS Medical records of 502 patients who received cervical conization treatment of CIN between 2005 and 2012 were reviewed. The clinicopathologic parameters were analyzed using Cox hazard regression. Fifty patie...

Objectives: First, to assess the compliance and persistence with stimulants among adolescents with ADHD. Second, to examine the relationship between compliance and persistence with stimulants and the dosage form of the medication. Method: Adolescents with ADHD in the Georgia Medicaid program were followed retrospectively for 12 months in 1995 and their prescription claims data were examined to ...

This ISR presents an analysis of the System Level Thermal Vacuum (SLTV) persistence tests performed with NICMOS. In August 1996, persistence data was obtained as part of the SLTV, and further data were obtained in December 1996 after modifications had been made to the instrument operating procedures. The goal was to determine if NICMOS exhibits an “after-glow” or “persistence” when read out in ...

Enterprise applications, that is large and long-lived applications, require persistence. Conventional approaches to persistence suffer from various deficiencies since they pass a considerable amount of the persistence workload on the programmer. Programmers have to transfer data to and from storage devices and have to provide mappings from the programming data structures to the storage device d...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of antihypertensive (AH) treatment after stroke has been investigated in several randomized clinical trials. However, non-adherence to AH medication is common for stroke patients in "real world" setting. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of persistence with AH agents on ischemic stroke (IS) outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the China National Stroke ...