Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heterogeneous disorder of connective tissue that manifests mainly as skeletal deformity and bone fragility. Dentinogenesis imperfecta (DI) is sometimes an accompanying symptom of OI. The treatment protocol of these patients varies according to the clinical appearance. The case report here describes complete mouth rehabilitation of an 18-year-old male patient wi...

Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to the performance disadvantage when detecting a target presented at a previously cued location. The current paper contributes to the long-standing debate whether IOR is caused by attentional processing or perceptual processing. We present a series of four experiments which varied the cue luminance in mixed and blocked conditions. We hypothesised that if inhibi...

In cooperative multi-agent sequential decision making under uncertainty, agents must coordinate in order find an optimal joint policy that maximises joint value. Typical solution algorithms exploit additive structure in the value function, but in the fully-observable multi-agent MDP setting (MMDP) such structure is not present. We propose a new optimal solver for so-called TI-MMDPs, where agent...

The objective of this paper is to provide a sound theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of consumer indebtedness, by integrating Portfolio theory with the Life-Cycle hypothesis (LCH) model of consumption. Modern versions of this LCH theory almost always assume that utility is additive over time, but in this study the multiplicative ‘Cobb-Douglas’ function is used. The new synthesis a...

Although not typical, there appears to be a growing trend of chiropractors working within collaborative care settings. We use a case report to highlight features of patient care and education related to chiropractic practice within a collaborative care model. This paper hopes to offer some insight into how a chiropractor might fit into a collaborative setting and what training might help them t...

We examine the effects of stochastic input currents on the firing behavior of two excitable neurons coupled with fast excitatory synapses. In such cells (models), typified by the quadratic integrate and fire model, mutual synaptic coupling can cause sustained firing or oscillatory behavior which is necessarily antiphase. Additive Gaussian white noise can transiently terminate the oscillations, ...

We propose an errors-in-variables factor model which extends the classical capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to the case where the market returns contain additive noise. Using the model, we propose a method for choosing portfolios of assets, such as U.S. stocks in the S&P 100 and virtual electricity contracts in a regional transmission organization. Virtual electricity contracts relate real-ti...

This paper studies robustness of a gradient-type CDMA uplink power control algorithm with respect to disturbances and time-delays. This problem is of practical importance because unmodeled secondary interference effects from neighboring cells play the role of disturbances, and propagation delays are ubiquitous in wireless data networks. We first show Lp -stability, for p ∈ [1,∞] , with respect ...

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...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a linear error correcting code, a method of transmitting a message over a noisy transmission channel, and is constructed using a sparse bipartite graph. LDPC codes are capacityapproaching codes, LDPC codes are finding increasing use in applications requiring reliable and highly efficient information transfer over bandwidth or return channel–constrained li...