The covalent functionalization of exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets by nitrene addition is described. Integration of functionalized h-BN nanosheets within a polycarbonate matrix is demonstrated and was found to afford significant increases in mechanical properties. This integration methodology was further extended by the covalent modification of the h-BN nanosheets with polym...

Bayesian (also called Belief) Networks (BN) are a powerful knowledge representation and reasoning mechanism. BN represent events and causal relationships between them as conditional probabilities involving random variables. Given the values of a subset of these variables (evidence variables) BN can compute the probabilities of another subset of variables (query variables). BN can be created aut...

Letting Bn,r be the n-th r-Bell polynomial, it is well known that Bn(x) admits specific integer coordinates in the two bases {x}i and {xBi(x)}i according to, respectively, the Stirling numbers and the binomial coefficients. Our aim is to prove that the sequences Bn+m,r(x) and Bn,r+s(x) admit a binomial recurrence coefficient in different bases of the Q-vector space formed by polynomials of Q[X].

Let Bn = {z ? Cn : |z| < 1} be the unit ball of complex n-plane Cn, 1 a holomorphic function in and A2 ?,? (Bn) space functions that are L2 with respect to rapidly decreasing weight form ??,?(z) (1 |z|)?e? 1?|z| on Bn, where R > 0. In this paper, we compute essential norm extended Ces?ro operator T1 (Bn). As direct application, obtain for one-variable case.

Batch normalization (BN) has become a de facto standard for training deep convolutional networks. However, BN accounts for a significant fraction of training run-time and is difficult to accelerate, since it is memory-bandwidth bounded. Such a drawback of BN motivates us to explore recently proposed weight normalization algorithms (WN algorithms), i.e. weight normalization, normalization propag...

OBJECTIVE To investigate brain white matter (WM) functionality in bulimia nervosa (BN) in relation to anxiety. METHOD Twenty-one control women (CW, mean age 27 ± 7 years) and 20 BN women (mean age 25 ± 5 years) underwent brain diffusion tensor imaging to measure fractional anisotropy (FA; an indication of WM axon integrity) and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC; reflecting WM cell damag...

We exhibit a family of infinite, finitely-presented, nilpotent-byabelian groups. Each member of this family is a solvable S-arithmetic group that is related to Baumslag-Solitar groups, and everyone of these groups has a quasi-isometry group that is virtually a product of a solvable real Lie group and a solvable p-adic Lie group. In addition, we propose a candidate for a polycyclic group whose q...

BACKGROUND Modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA-BN, IMVAMUNE) is emerging as a primary immunogen and as a delivery system to treat or prevent a wide range of diseases. Defining the safety and immunogenicity of MVA-BN in key populations is therefore important. METHODS We performed a dose-escalation study of MVA-BN administered subcutaneously in 2 doses, one on day 0 and another on day 28. Twenty-four...

Adsorption of hydrogen molecules on platinum-doped single-walled zigzag (8,0) boron nitride (BN) nanotube is investigated using the density-functional theory. The Pt atom tends to occupy the axial bridge site of the BN tube with the highest binding energy of -0.91 eV. Upon Pt doping, several occupied and unoccupied impurity states are induced, which reduces the band gap of the pristine BN nanot...

We consider the classical Mahonian statistics on the set Bn(Σ) of signed permutations in the hyperoctahedral group Bn which avoid all patterns in Σ, where Σ is a set of patterns of length two. In 2000, Simion gave the cardinality of Bn(Σ) in the cases where Σ contains either one or two patterns of length two and showed that |Bn(Σ)| is constant whenever |Σ| = 1, whereas in most but not all insta...