We focus on a class of models used for representing the dynamics between a discrete set of probabilistic events in a continuous-time setting. The proposed framework offers tractable learning and inference procedures and provides compact state representations for processes which exhibit variable delays between events. The approach is applied to a heart sound labeling task that exhibits long-rang...

a bstract background: nurses are at risk for symptoms of compassion fatigue (cf) and burnout (bo). social support plays an important role in predicting cf and bo. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of cf and bo and the role of perceived social support in predicting these symptoms in iranian nurses. materials and methods: using a correlational descriptive survey...

Artifact flow represents an important aspect of teaching/learning processes, especially in CSCL situations in which complex relationships may be found. However, explicit modeling of CSCL processes with artifact flow may increase the cognitive load and associated effort of the teachers-designers and therefore decrease the efficiency of the design process. The empirical study, reported in this pa...

A recurring question in neuroimaging studies of spoken language is whether speech is processed largely bilaterally, or whether the left hemisphere plays a more dominant role (cf., Hickok and Poeppel, 2007; Rauschecker and Scott, 2009). Although questions regarding underlying mechanisms are certainly of interest, the discussion unfortunately gets sidetracked due to the imprecise use of the word ...

We generate a basis of the space of bicubic and biquartic C-smooth geometrically continuous isogeometric functions on bilinear multi-patch domains Ω ⊂ R. The basis functions are obtained by suitably combining C-smooth geometrically continuous isogeometric functions on bilinearly parameterized two-patch domains (cf. [16]). They are described by simple explicit formulas for their spline coefficie...

Research on the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on developing learners’ explicit knowledge by the use of measures of explicit knowledge abounds in the literature. However, measuring learners’ implicit knowledge employing fine-grained measures has rarely been the concern of researchers in the field. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to scrutinize the effectiveness of implici...

In this paper we consider a class of symbols of infinite order and develop a global calculus for the related pseudodifferential operators in the functional frame of the Gelfand-Shilov spaces of type S. As an application, we construct a parametrix for the Cauchy problem associated to an operator with principal part Dm t and lower order terms given by SGoperators, cf. Introduction. We do not assu...

Shimura curves associated to rational nonsplit quaternion algebras are coarse moduli spaces for principally polarized abelian surfaces endowed with quaternionic multiplication. These objects are also known as fake elliptic curves. We present a method for computing equations for genus 2 curves whose Jacobian is a fake elliptic curve with complex multiplication. The method is based on the explici...

Let s(n,m) denote the (unsigned) Stirling numbers of the first kind: s(n,m) := [w] (w(w + 1) · · · (w + n− 1)) (1 ≤ m ≤ n, n ≥ 1). Many different asymptotic expressions for s(n,m), as n→∞, have been proposed in the literature due to their wide applications, cf. Temme [8] for a brief survey of known results together with a uniform asymptotic expansion valid for all m, 1 ≤ m ≤ n. Recently, Wilf [...