in surrogate pregnancies genetic parents have little opportunity for early bonding with their infants either prenatally (in utero) or during the immediate postnatal period. procedures commonly used to induce lactation include both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic methods often in combination. studies reporting induced lactation are sparse due to the rarity of augmented lactation. here we repo...

Genetic algorithms (GA) are used to optimize the Fast Neutron Source (FNS) core fuel loading maximize a multiobjective function. The FNS has 150 material locations that can be loaded with one of three different materials resulting in over 3E+71 combinations. individual designs evaluated computationally intensive calls MCNP. To speed up optimization, convolutional neural networks (CNN) trained a...

We consider a new and general online resource allocation problem, where the goal is to maximize a function of a positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix with a scalar budget constraint. The problem data arrives online, and the algorithm needs to make an irrevocable decision at each step. Of particular interest are classic experiment design problems in the online setting, with the algorithm deciding w...

the changing of round and back vowel /u/ to unround and front vowel [i] occurs in lori dialects as well as some other persian dialects. this vowel change includes both unrounding and fronting. this paper aimed at coming up with an inclusive ranking of constraints to explain occurrence and nonoccurrence of this vowel change in various phonological environments in silahkori dialect within optimal...

August 18, 2017 Type Package Title Evaluation of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials Version 0.4 Date 2017-08-18 Author Wim Van der Elst, Paul Meyvisch, Ariel Alonso, Hannah M. Ensor, Christopher J. Weir & Geert Molenberghs Maintainer Wim Van der Elst Description In a clinical trial, it frequently occurs that the most credible outcome to evaluate the effectiveness ...

Before we apply nonlinear techniques, for example those inspired by chaos theory, to dynamical phenomena occurring in nature, it is necessary to rst ask if the use of such advanced techniques is justiied by the data. While many processes in nature seem very unlikely a priori to be linear, the possible nonlinear nature might not be evident in speciic aspects of their dynamics. The method of surr...

Abstract As the problem of spectral congestion is becoming severe, coexistence between two primary spectrum users, radar and communications, has spurred extensive research interest. To reduce mutual interferences functions, MIMO waveform design needs to consider compatibility in both spatial domains, where former achieved by null forming frequency domain latter shaped beampattern synthesis. Add...