The critical current modulation and the spontaneous flux of the vortex states in corner Josephson junctions between Sr2RuO4 and a conventional s-wave superconductor are calculated as a function of the crystal orientation, and the magnetic field. For Sr2RuO4 we assume two nodeless p-wave pairing states. Also we use the nodal f -wave states B1g × Eu and B2g × Eu, and one special p-wave state havi...

BACKGROUND Provider continuity (PC) occurs when a patient is treated by the same physician over time. A perceived benefit of PC is decreased test repetition. Repeat tests make up a significant proportion of overall laboratory utilization. This study determined whether test repetition increases when PC decreases. METHODS Cohort study of adults in eastern Ontario, Canada between September 1999 ...

Microtechniques are now used extensively in diagnostic as well as immunological studies for viruses, protozoa, and bacteria (Sever, 1962; Edwards, 1964; Kessel, Lewis, Pasquel, and Turner, 1965). In microtitrations constant volumes of fluids are picked up and delivered by specially constructed and calibrated metallic microdiluters. According to the Microtiter Instruction Manual of the Cooke Eng...

Walking tests, frequently used to document effects of treatment on exercise capacity, have never been standardised. We studied the effects of encouragement on walking test performance in a randomised study that controlled for the nature of the underlying disease, time of day, and order effects. We randomised 43 patients with chronic airflow limitation or chronic heart failure or both to receive...

Step-stress accelerated degradation test (SSADT) is a useful tool for assessing the lifetime distribution of highly reliable products (under a normal-use condition) when the available test items are very few. Recently, an optimal SSADT plan has been proposed in the literature which is based on the assumption that the underlying degradation path follows a Wiener process. However, the degradation...

Impairments of the vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) lead to a decline in visual acuity during head movements. Dynamic visual acuity (DVA) testing is a sensitive assessment tool for detecting VOR impairments. DVA evaluates accuracy of visual acuity during fixed velocity head movements. In contrast, the Gaze Stabilization test (GST) is a new functional evaluation of the VOR that identifies a person...

Robustness is an important issue in automatic speech recognition systems. When the testing conditions do not match the training condition or when there is insufficient training data, the performance of a system trained by maximum likelihood criterion may degrade significantly. Different robust algorithms were proposed especially for cases in which the mismatch condition is known or can be estim...