The remarkable improvement in the estimates of different cosmological parameters in recent years has been largely spearheaded by accurate measurements of the angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. This has required removal of foreground contamination as well as detector noise bias with reliability and precision. Recently, a novel model-independent method for the ...

AIM Drinking water induces short-term cardiovascular and metabolic changes. These effects are considered to be triggered by gastric distension and osmotic factors, but little is known about the influence of water temperature. METHODS We determined, in a randomized crossover study, the acute cardiovascular and metabolic responses to 500 mL of tap water at 3 °C (cold), 22 °C (room) and 37 °C (b...

The main purpose of this paper is to produce a geometric realization for the tempered modules of the affine Hecke algebra of type C (1) n with arbitrary, non-root of unity, unequal parameters, using the exotic DeligneLanglands correspondence ([Ka08a]). Our classification has several applications to the Weyl group module structure of the tempered Hecke algebra modules. In particular, we provide ...

I present a new Markov chain sampling method appropriate for distributions with isolated modes. Like the recently-developed method of \simulated tempering", the \tempered transition" method uses a series of distributions that interpolate between the distribution of interest and a distribution for which sampling is easier. The new method has the advantage that it does not require approximate val...

Competitive athletes are pushed routinely to the limits of their physical abilities. When tempered with periods of rest and recovery, a highly demanding training schedule can have tremendous benefits. However when an athlete is pushed too far, overtraining syndrome (OTS) can develop and result in career-ending damage. Overreaching and overtraining are part of the same spectrum that can lead to ...

In studying residual automorphic representations, we need to parametrize the image of normalized local intertwining operators. This has been done by Moeglin in the case of the residual spectrum attached to the trivial character of the torus for split classical groups. In this paper, we extend her result to non-trivial characters of the torus. To do this, we use Roche’s Hecke algebra isomorphism...

The aim is to explore new opportunities of the pitch organization of the musical scale. Specifically, a numerical comparison of the different musical temperaments among themselves in the degree of approximation of the Pythagorean scale is provided, and thus it numerically substantiates the thesis that the 53-tone tempered system is the most advanced among possible others. We present numerical d...