We have used the NASA Infra-Red Telescope Facility (IRTF) to observe the nuclear stellar cluster in the nearby, face-on, giant Scd spiral IC 342. From high resolution (λ/∆λ = 21500) spectra at the 12CO (2-0) bandhead at 2.3μm we derive a line-of-sight stellar velocity dispersion σ = (33 ± 3) km s−1. To interpret this observation we construct dynamical models based on the Jeans equation for a sp...

Result: Hundred twenty-two maternal deaths were reported in Bahrain between 1977 to 2012; 37 (30%) had SCD. The study showed a significant decline in overall Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). The OR of maternal mortality by SCD was 117. The most important causes of maternal mortality in SCD were embolism 13 (35%), sepsis 9 (24%), hemorrhage 6 (16%) and acute chest syndrome 5 (13.5%). In the non-SC...

Chapter 2. Methods of calculation of Nonlinear interactions in sound beams Small parameters used in the calculation of wave interactions Solution of the equations of hydrodynamics by the method of successive approximations Calculation of the secondary field by the Green's function method: The Westervelt formula Estimates of the basic characteristics of parametric radiators by means of nomograms...

Deep reinforcement learning methods attain super-human performance in a wide range of environments. Such methods are grossly inefficient, often taking orders of magnitudes more data than humans to achieve reasonable performance. We propose Neural Episodic Control: a deep reinforcement learning agent that is able to rapidly assimilate new experiences and act upon them. Our agent uses a semi-tabu...

objective to determine the changes in thyroid function tests in children who underwent antiepileptic therapy in shahid beheshti hospital, kashan, in 2008. materials & methods this analytical-observational study was carried out in a cohort fashion without an external control group (self controlled) on 45 children with new onset epilepsy who had not been previously treated with antiepileptic medi...

In this work, we experimentally evaluate and verify model assumptions for our recently proposed algorithm (practical ReProCS) for recovering a time sequence of sparse vectors St and a time sequence of dense vectors Lt from their sum, Mt := St + Lt, when Lt lies in a slowly changing low-dimensional subspace. A key application where this problem occurs is in video layering where the goal is to se...

Waveforms arising from power electronics circuits often contain slowly changing segments with high-frequency details concentrated near the switching instants. Such a feature is consistent with the localization property of wavelets which are known in the signal processing literature to be highly suitable for describing fast changing edges embedded in slowly varying backgrounds. This paper consid...