Reflex cardiovascular depression with vasodilation and bradycardia has been variously termed vasovagal syncope, the Bezold-Jarisch reflex and neurocardiogenic syncope. The circulatory response changes from the normal maintenance of arterial pressure, to parasympathetic activation and sympathetic inhibition, causing hypotension. This change is triggered by reduced cardiac venous return as well a...

Through reduced 3-D printer cost, increased usability, and greater material selection, additive manufacturing has transitioned from business manufacturing to the average prosumer. This study serves as a representative model for the potential future of 3-D printing in the average American household by employing a printer operator who was relatively unfamiliar with 3-D printing and the 3-D design...

A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing asset price—contrary to a wide-held conjecture. Generalizing the common additive signal-return model with CARA utility to the family of distributions with moment generating functions, this paper shows that individual investors endowed with an average portfolio demand information i...

A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing asset price—contrary to a wide-held conjecture. Whereas a continuum of investors is inconsistent with fully revealing equilibrium, finitely many investors with average portfolios demand information in equilibrium if they can adjust portfolio size in an additive-signal return model...

Two hundred sixty-two sows were used to investigate the effects of boar exposure during the last week of nursing (BPRE) and after weaning (BPOST) on the return to estrus. Because approximately one-half of the sows were weaning their first litter, a third factor, primiparous vs multiparous (LITT), was considered in the statistical analysis. To evaluate the effect of treatment on ovarian activity...

In basal adipocytes, glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) is sequestered intracellularly by an insulin-reversible retention mechanism. Here, we analyze the roles of three GLUT4 trafficking motifs (FQQI, TELEY, and LL), providing molecular links between insulin signaling, cellular trafficking machinery, and the motifs in the specialized trafficking of GLUT4. Our results support a GLUT4 retention model ...

In the early years of information theory, mutual information was defined as a random variable, and error probability bounds for communication systems were obtained in terms of its probability distribution. We advocate a return to this perspective for a renewed look at information theory for general channel models and finite coding blocklengths. For capacityachieving inputs, we characterize the ...

This paper studies robustness of Kelly’s source and link control laws in [1] with respect to disturbances and time-delays. This problem is of practical importance because of unmodeled flows, and propagation and queueing delays, which are ubiquitous in networks. We first show Lp-stability, for p ∈ [1,∞], with respect to additive disturbances. We pursue L∞-stability within the input-to-state stab...

Superiority of poly-alphabetic sequences (PAS) for pulse compression radar over the binary and ternary sequences was established earlier. However, the enlarged alphabets in poly–alphabetic sequences deteriorate the noise and Doppler robustness at higher lengths in high resolution radar (HRR) systems. In this paper, poly-semantic sequences (PSS) with restricted alphabet {+1,-1} are considered an...

This paper studies robustness of Kelly’s source and link control laws in (J. Oper. Res. Soc. 49 (1998) 237) with respect to disturbances and time-delays. This problem is of practical importance because of unmodelled $ows, and propagation and queueing delays, which are ubiquitous in networks. We ;rst show Lp-stability, for p∈ [1;∞], with respect to additive disturbances. We pursue L∞-stability w...