[1] A simple function of sea surface salinity (SSS) and temperature (SST) in the formAT = a + b (SSS 35) + c (SSS 35) + d (SST 20) + e (SST 20) fits surface total alkalinity (AT) data for each of five oceanographic regimes within an area-weighted uncertainty of ±8.1 mmol kg 1 (1s). Globally coherent surface AT data (n = 5,692) used to derive regional correlations of ATwith SSS and SSTwere colle...

HNSCC: head and neck SCC SCC: squamous cell carcinoma SSS: secondary SCC of the skin INTRODUCTION Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to the skin, also known as secondary SCC of the skin (SSS), is a rare entity that represents advanced disease and carries a poor prognosis. The most commonly reported primary sources for metastatic SCC to the skin are head and neck cancers of the larynx, oro...

State-shared, context-dependent, acoustic HMM's are the basis of practically all large-vocabulary state-of-the-art speech recognition systems. The topology, i.e. state-sharing, is usually trained by decision tree based clustering of similar phonetic contexts, i.e. divisive clustering on the state level. In this paper, we show that Phonetic Decision Trees (PDT) and Maximum Likelihood Successive ...

Pure metallic nickel submicron spheres (Ni-SSs), flower-like nickel nanoflakes, and hollow micrometer-sized nickel spheres/tubes were controllably synthesized by a facile and efficient one-step solvothermal method with no reducing agent. The characteristics of these nickel nanostructures include morphology, structure, and purification. Possible synthesis mechanisms were discussed in detail. The...

This study evaluated the ability of the slipping slipper sign (defined as unknowingly losing a slipper while walking) to identify diabetic neuropathy in Jamaican patients. A single question was used to ascertain the presence of the slipping slipper sign (SSS) among 69 patients attending a diabetes clinic. Nurses assessed pain, vibration and pressure perception among the same patients in order t...

Introduction: Bilateral silent sinus syndrome (SSS) is a very rare pathology reported only in few papers in literature. Most of the described cases are simultaneous, and only one had a metachronous presentation. The evolutionary phases of the disease have yet to be well demonstrated and a complete radiological evaluation is needed to demonstrate the pathogenetic mechanisms that cause the ...

BACKGROUND It is well known that familial sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is caused by functional alterations of ion channels and gap junction. Limited information is available on the mechanism of age-related non-familial SSS. Although evidence shows a close link between arrhythmia and the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), it remains to be determined whether the RAS is involved in the pathogenesis of n...

BACKGROUND Myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) traditionally requires the patient to be in the supine position, but diaphragmatic attenuation of the inferior wall reduces test specificity. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of combined MPS in the supine and prone positions using a novel cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) camera. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 276 consecutive patients ...

In this paper, two smoothing effects are firstly pointed out by analysis and by experiment on Traveling Salesman Problem(TSP) instances. We design a novel algorithm which runs stochastic local search under the SSS framework. The function determining the accepting probability of uphill moves is designed so that the algorithm can take advantage of the local smoothing effect ignored in original SS...