Events of a distributed system are partially ordered, but additional ordering information can aid in understanding the causal impact of events on other events. The assignment of weights to events measures the temporal proximity of events and quantitates the causality among events. In particular, weights have been used in the feature location problem to determine the relevance of events to the f...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has matured into the preferred treatment modality for patients with severe aortic stenosis at extreme or high risk for conventional surgery and a valuable alternative for those at intermediate risk in view of similar or superior clinical outcomes and decreased rates of periprocedural adverse events. In this context, it remains unclear whether other...

Domain 10 of type III fibronectin (10FNIII) is known to play a pivotal role in the mechanical interactions between cell surface integrins and the extracellular matrix. Recent molecular dynamics simulations have predicted that 10FNIII, when exposed to a stretching force, unfolds along two pathways, each with a distinct, mechanically stable intermediate. Here, we use single-molecule force spectro...

We have searched for the decay φ → K0Kγ , by detecting KS pairs plus a photon and with the KS-mesons decaying to π π, in a sample of about 1.5×109 φ-decays collected by the KLOE experiment at DAΦNE. The reaction proceeds through the intermediate states f0(980)γ, a0(980)γ. We find five events with 3.2 events expected from background processes. We obtain the upper limit: BR(φ → K0Kγ) < 1.9 × 10 a...

The event structure associated with the production of massive photon pairs is studied to O(α 2 α s). The cross sections for two photon and two photon plus one jet events are given. The Dalitz plot structure of events with two photons and a jet is also presented. These distributions will provide checks on our understanding of the production mechanisms for massive photon pairs, a signal thought t...

We have searched for the decay φ → K0Kγ , by detecting KS pairs plus a photon and with the KS-mesons decaying to π π, in a sample of about 1.5×109 φ-decays collected by the KLOE experiment at DAΦNE. The reaction proceeds through the intermediate states f0(980)γ, a0(980)γ. We find five events with 3.2 events expected from background processes. We obtain the upper limit: BR(φ → K0Kγ) < 1.9 × 10 a...

A question often posed in protein folding/unfolding studies is whether the process is fully cooperative or whether it contains sequential elements. To address this question, one needs tools capable of resolving different events. It seems that, at least in certain cases, two-dimensional (2D) IR correlation spectroscopy can provide answers to this question. To illustrate this point, we have turne...

Perioperative beta blockade has been proven to significantly reduce the incidence of myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction and of long-term overall mortality related to cardiac events after various surgeries in patients at intermediate or high risk for such events. The major physiologic effects of beta blockers result in a positive balance of myocardial oxygen supply and demand. Althoug...

The sequence mining problem consists in finding frequent sequential patterns in a database of timestamped events. Some application domains require limiting the maximum temporal gap between events in the input sequences. However concentration on such constraint is critical for most sequence mining algorithms. In this paper we describe CCSM (Cache-based Con-strained Sequence Miner), a new level-w...