BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Female patients have higher risk for stroke than male patients in nonanticoagulated atrial fibrillation patients, but limited data are available on sex differences in stroke and bleeding outcomes among patients with anticoagulated atrial fibrillation on warfarin, especially in relation to quality of anticoagulation control, as reflected by the time in therapeutic range (T...

The graph theory of aromaticity is a useful framework for analyzing the aromatic properties polycyclic hydrocarbons. We present here magnetically based superaromatic stabilization energy (m-SSE) as local index and validate it against its topologically counterpart t-SSE. By comparing to DFT-computed indices triplet state excited polybenzenoid hydrocarbons, we find that semi-quantitative agreemen...

In this study, corrosion behavior of copper that was deformed by Simple Shear Extrusion (SSE) method was investigated in 3%wt NaCl solution. Modified Williamson-Hall method, applied on the X-ray diffraction patterns of the samples, showed that increase in the number of SSE passes led to increasing in the dislocation density in the copper samples. Moreover, such deformed samples exh...

Quantitative mechanistic models are valuable tools for disentangling biochemical pathways and for achieving a comprehensive understanding of biological systems. However, to be quantitative the parameters of these models have to be estimated from experimental data. In the presence of significant stochastic fluctuations this is a challenging task as stochastic simulations are usually too time-con...

Stackelberg security games have been widely deployed to protect real-world assets. The main solution concept there is the Strong Stackelberg Equilibrium (SSE), which optimizes the defender’s random allocation of limited security resources. However, solely deploying the SSE mixed strategy has limitations. In the extreme case, there are security games in which the defender is able to defend all t...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of scoliosis specific exercises (SSE) on a side-alternating whole body vibration platform (sWBV) as a home-training program in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). METHODS 40 female AIS patients (10-17 years) wearing a brace were randomly assigned to two groups. The intervention was a six months, home-based, SSE program ...

Microaggregation is a special clustering problem where the goal is to cluster a set of points into groups of at least k points in such a way that groups are as homogeneous as possible. Microaggregation arises in connection with anonymization of statistical databases for privacy protection (k-anonymity), where points are assimilated to database records. A usual group homogeneity criterion is wit...

Background: The ability of managers of small-scale enterprises (SSEs) to prioritize health, working conditions, and their own physical fitness is an important issue for workplace health promotion in Norway and Sweden, where most owner-manager positions are in SSEs. Aim: To assess the physical fitness status of SSE managers compared to a norm population and to study changes in physical fitness s...

We would like to explain why AES instructions should be considered: Based on our observation that Intel CPU performance figures of several SHA-3 candidates are due to the use of instructions in SSE, we think that new version of SSE which employs AES instructions should be considered as the same way as the current version of it. We expect that Intel CPUs with AES instructions will be widely used...

In a searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) scheme, a client can keyword search over symmetrically-encrypted files which he stored on the server (ideally without leaking any information to the server). In this paper, we show the first multiple keyword search SSE scheme such that even the search formula f (AND, OR and so on) is kept secret. Our scheme is based on an extended garbled circuit satis...