This article introduces the idea of non-deterministic strategies for parity games: In a non-deterministic strategy a player restricts himself to some nonempty subset of possible actions at a given node, instead of limiting himself to exactly one action. We show that a strategy-improvement algorithm by by Björklund, Sandberg, and Vorobyov [3] can easily be adapted to the more general setting of ...

Syntheses of heteroleptic 1,8-bis(phosphino)naphthalenes and 5,6-bis(phosphino)acenaphthenes were attempted using several synthetic strategies. Reaction of aryllithium with triphenylphosphite gave ArP(OPh)(2) (Ar = substituted naphthalene or acenaphthene), which was transformed into ArP(CF(3))(2), using a nucleophilic trifluoromethylation reaction with Me(3)SiCF(3)/CsF. The importance of the co...

Aminoglycoside antibiotics are a central component of the treatment of pulmonary exacerbations of cystic fibrosis (CF) and slow the decline in lung function which ultimately causes the death of most patients. The prognosis of CF has improved, and thus side effects of treatments have become increasingly important. Observational studies suggest that the morbidity from side effects of aminoglycosi...

This article addresses the problem of traffic congestion through a learning perspective, highlighting capabilities information, and communication technologies to transform society. Recent physical mathematical analysis reveals that training drivers keep safe distance systematically contributes emergence maintenance interference (so-called phantom jam). presents WaveDriving Course (WDC), simulat...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) aims at predicting unknown ratings of a user from other similar users. The uniqueness of the problem has made its formulation distinctive to other information retrieval problems. While the formulation has proved to be effective in rating prediction tasks, it has limited the potential connections between these algorithms and Information Retrieval (IR) models. In this...

Abstract The intrinsic heterogeneity of bacterial niches should be retained in vitro cultures to represent the complex microbial ecology. As a case study, mucin‐containing hydrogels ‐CF‐Mu 3 Gel ‐ are generated by diffusion‐induced gelation, bioinspired on cystic fibrosis (CF) mucus, and niche challenging current therapeutic strategies. At breathing frequency, CF‐Mu exhibits G ′ ″ equal 24 3.2 ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recent therapies directed at proximal targets within cystic fibrosis (CF) pathophysiology hold potential to modulate disease. This review highlights recent clinical trials and future therapies focused on these early steps of disease. RECENT FINDINGS Recent approval of a CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein modulator, ivacaftor (Kalydeco), has ignited a wave ...

Cell Formation (CF) problem involves grouping the parts into part families and machines into manufacturing cells, so that parts with similar processing requirements are manufactured within the same cell. Many researches have suggested methods for CF. Few of these methods; have addressed the possible existence of exceptional elements (EE) in the solution and the effect of correspondent intercell...

Technological advances in genetics have made feasible and affordable large studies to identify genetic variants that cause or modify a trait. Genetic studies have been carried out to assess variants in candidate genes, as well as polymorphisms throughout the genome, for their associations with heritable clinical outcomes of cystic fibrosis (CF), such as lung disease, meconium ileus, and CF-rela...

Cell-Free (CF) Massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) is a distributed antenna system, wherein a large number of back-haul linked access points randomly distributed over a coverage area serve simultaneously a smaller number of users. CF Massive MIMO inherits favorable propagation of Massive MIMO systems. However, the level of favorable propagation which highly depends on the network topol...