Introduction: Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) represents a syndrome of secondary polycythemia along with thrombocytopenia, altered hemorheology, pulmonary and systemic hypertension, and congestive heart failure, occurring due to hypobaric hypoxia-anoxia-induced erythropoiesis reported in both native mountain residents and new climbers after prolonged stays at high and extreme a...

We consider one-dimensional steady-state balance laws with discontinuous solutions. Giles and Pierce [J. Fluid Mech., 426 (2001), pp. 327–345] realized that a shock leads to a new term in the adjoint error representation for target functionals. This term disappears if and only if the adjoint solution satisfies an internal boundary condition. Curiously, most computer codes implementing adjoint e...

In some long term studies, a series of dependent and possibly truncated lifetime data may be observed. Suppose that the lifetimes have a common continuous distribution function F. A popular stochastic measure of the distance between the density function f of the lifetimes and its kernel estimate fn is the integrated square error (ISE). In this paper, we derive a central limit theorem for t...

‎semidiscrete finite element approximation of a hyperbolic type‎ ‎integro-differential equation is studied. the model problem is‎ ‎treated as the wave equation which is perturbed with a memory term.‎ ‎stability estimates are obtained for a slightly more general problem.‎ ‎these, based on energy method, are used to prove optimal order‎ ‎a priori error estimates.‎

BACKGROUND Surgery for hypertrophied breast represents a challenge for plastic surgeons. The search for a good cosmetic breast has led to the development of many techniques. Objectives for reduction mammoplasty are to achieve elevated, symmetrical breasts, with round shape, good projection, small cicatrices that are not very perceptible, and a lasting result. METHODS This study was car...