OBJECTIVE To compare progression in short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) and white-on-white (standard) perimetry in eyes with progressive glaucomatous changes of the optic disc detected by serial stereophotographs. METHODS Forty-seven glaucoma patients with at least 2 disc stereophotographs more than 2 years apart, along with standard perimetry and SWAP examinations within 6 months of ...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to identify a biomarker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that can be used as a predictor of relapse and disability. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sera of 26 consecutive relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) patients were screened for switch-associated protein 70 (SWAP-70) antibody, which was previously identified by protein macroarray. The serum levels of several cytokines, chem...

This paper analyzes the pricing of defaultable securities in rating based models where the default of more than one agent is involved. We extend the model of Duffie and Huang (1996) to a framework which explicitly takes into account the rating of each party. Although our method is by no means restricted to swap contracts we will use as our illustrative example a plain vanilla interest rate swap...

The consensus number of a synchronization primitive, such as compare-and-swap or fetch-and-add, is the maximum number of processes n among which binary consensus can be solved by using read-write registers and registers supporting the synchronization primitive. As per Herlihy’s seminal result, any synchronization primitive with consensus number n can be used to construct a wait-free and lineari...

J ia n Su n is an executive director at a large financial institution in N ew York, NY. [email protected] C onsider a call swaption m aturing at tim e T > 0 w ritten on an underly ing swap m aturing at a later tim e T' > T. Let A t(T,T') be the spot price at time t e [0,T] o f a forward­ starting annuity whose payments begin at T and end at T'. Let F (T ,T ') be the forward swap rate at tim e...

SWAP-70, an unusual phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-dependent protein that interacts with the RhoGTPase Rac, is highly expressed in mast cells. Cultured bone marrow mast cells (BMMC) from SWAP-70(-/-) mice are reduced in FcepsilonRI-triggered degranulation. This report describes the hitherto-unknown role of SWAP-70 in c-kit receptor signaling, a key proliferation and differentiation pathway in ma...

In this paper we are concerned with the distributional difference of forward swap rates between the lognormal forward–Libor model (LFM) or “Libor market model” and the lognormal forward-swap model (LSM) or “swap market model”, the two fundamental models for interest-rate derivatives. To measure this distributional difference, we resort to a “metric” in the space of distributions, the well known...

AIM To compare and correlate optic nerve head parameters obtained by Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) with short-wavelength automatic perimetry (SWAP) indices in eyes with ocular hypertension (OHT). METHODS One hundred and forty-six patients with OHT included in the present study. All subjects had reliable SWAP and HRT measurements performed within a 2wk period. The eyes were classified as n...

Several simulation and real world studies show that certain ad hoc routing protocols perform better than others under specific mobility and traffic patterns. In order to exploit this phenomena, we propose a novel approach to adapt a network to changing conditions; we introduce “a combined routing method” that allows the network to seamlessly swap from one routing protocol to another protocol dy...

We conducted a prospective cohort study in Leyte, the Philippines, among 611 Schistosoma japonicum-infected participants 7-30 years old, all of whom were treated with praziquantel at baseline. To detect hepatic fibrosis, abdominal ultrasound was performed at baseline and 12 months after treatment. Stool for assessment of S. japonicum infection was collected at baseline and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 mo...