Background: Cervical spondylosis is a common progressive degenerative disorder of the human spine often caused by the natural aging process. Osteophytic formations contribute to biomechanical changes that result in neural and vascular compression. The spinal compression of the obliquely passing cervical nerve roots can result in possible autonomic imbalance in the body. Valsalva maneuver is a s...

Block and Basu bivariate exponential distribution is one of the most popular absolute continuous bivariate distributions. Recently, Kundu and Gupta (‘A class of absolute continuous bivariate distributions’, Statistical Methodology, 2010) introduced Block and Basu bivariate Weibull distribution, which is a generalization of the Block and Basu bivariate exponential distribution, and provided the ...

Let π1 and π2 be graphic n-tuples, with π1 = (d (1) 1 , . . . , d (1) n ) and π2 = (d (2) 1 , . . . , d (2) n ) (they need not be monotone). We say that π1 and π2 pack if there exist edge-disjoint graphs G1 and G2 with vertex set {v1, . . . , vn} such that the degrees of vi in G1 and G2 are d (1) i and d (2) i , respectively. We prove that two graphic n-tuples pack if ∆ ≤ √ 2δn− (δ−1), where ∆ ...

Spread spectrum (SS) modulation based watermarking methods are widely used and popular, satisfying two important characteristics, namely (i) it may help in achieving high document-towatermark ratio (DWR) leading to low distortion due to watermark insertion and (ii) it can also help to achieve robustness against forced removal of hidden data (Cox et al. 1997; Maity et al, 2007a). In SS watermark...

X iv :0 71 0. 34 25 v2 [ qu an tph ] 1 4 N ov 2 00 7 Properties of the residual entanglement for n-qubits Dafa Li, Xiangrong Li, Hongtao Huang, Xinxin Li a Dept of mathematical sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 CHINA b Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3875, USA c Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Michigan, Ann A...

Background: Cutaneous metastases can occur in a wide variety of internal malignancies and may be the first sign of a clinically silent visceral cancer. Study Design: A retrospective analysis was made of 138 cases diagnosed with cutaneous and subcutaneous metastasis on fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Primary tumors of the skin/subcutis were excluded. Results: Of 138 cases, the primary wa...

Background: Cutaneous metastases can occur in a wide variety of internal malignancies and may be the first sign of a clinically silent visceral cancer. Study Design: A retrospective analysis was made of 138 cases diagnosed with cutaneous and subcutaneous metastasis on fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Primary tumors of the skin/subcutis were excluded. Results: Of 138 cases, the primary wa...

We consider a source of gravitational waves of frequency ω, located near the center of a massive galaxy of mass M and radius R, with ω ≫ R−1. In the case of a perfect fluid galaxy, and of odd-parity waves, there is no direct matter-wave interaction and the propagation of the waves is affected by the galaxy only through the curvature of the spacetime background through which the waves propagate....

An n-tuple π (not necessarily monotone) is graphic if there is a simple graph G with vertex set {v1, . . . , vn} in which the degree of vi is the ith entry of π. Graphic n-tuples (d (1) 1 , . . . , d (1) n ) and (d (2) 1 , . . . , d (2) n ) pack if there are edge-disjoint n-vertex graphs G1 and G2 such that dG1(vi) = d (1) i and dG2(vi) = d (2) i for all i. We prove that graphic n-tuples π1 and...