We are witnessing the great era of genome exploration of the world, as genetic variation in people is being detailed across multiple varied world populations in an effort unprecedented since the first human genome sequence appeared in 2001. However, these efforts have yet to produce a comprehensive mapping of humankind, because important regions of modern human civilization remain unexplored. T...

Crew sizes in the Navy and Coast Guard continue to decrease. Optimally or minimally manned crews complete ever more complex and varied mission sets. Accordingly, crews rely on sensors and automatic operation to perform a host of duties formerly completed manually. The Non-Intrusive Load Monitor (NILM) provides a low cost, low-maintenance, rugged, easily installed tool for machinery monitoring f...

A class of models for riie shuues (\f?shuues") related to certain expansive map-pings of the unit interval is studied. The main results concern the cycle structure of the resulting random permutations in S n when n is large. The rst result describes the asymptotic distribution of the number of cycles of a given length, relating this distribution to dynamical properties of the associated mapping...

The concept of weakorthogonality for a Banach lattice is examined. A proof that in such a lattice non expansive self maps of a non empty weakly compact convex set have fixed points is outlined. A geometric generalization of weakorthogonality is introduced and related to the Opial condition. AMS subject classification: 47H10

OBJECTIVES Assess the effect of re-expansive respiratory patterns associated to respiratory biofeedback (RBF) on pulmonary function, respiratory muscle strength and habits in individuals with functional mouth breathing (FMB). METHODS Sixty children with FMB were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was submitted to 15 sessions of re-expansive respiratory patter...

We analyze the asymptotic behavior of infinite products non-linear operators which take a non-empty, closed subset complete metric space into space, taking account summable computational errors. Our results can be applied in methods for solving convex feasibility and optimization problems.

For the model of probabilistic labelled transition systems that allow for the co-existence of nondeterminism and probabilities, we present two notions of bisimulation metrics: one is state-based and the other is distribution-based. We provide a sound and complete modal characterisation for each of them, using real-valued modal logics based on Hennessy-Milner logic. The logic for characterising ...

We present several results for the periods of periodic points of sup-norm nonexpansive maps. In particular, we show that the period of each periodic point of a sup-norm non-expansive map f : M → M , where M ⊂ R, is at most maxk 2 ( n k ) . This upper bound is smaller than 3 and improves the previously known bounds. Further, we consider a special class of sup-norm non-expansive maps, namely topi...