objective: in recent years the use of herbal slimming supplements has increased in iran. one problem may be the illegal inclusion of synthetic drugs by some manufacturers in these products. the aim of this study is to determine four undeclared synthetic adulterants in some herbal slimming products present in the iranian market. methods: this survey studyresearched six common herbal slimming sup...

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We obtain several extensions of Talagrand’s lower bound for the small deviation probability using metric entropy. For Gaussian processes, our investigations are focused on processes with sub-polynomial and, respectively, exponential behaviour of covering numbers. The corresponding results are also proved for non-Gaussian symmetric stable processes, both for the cases of critically small and cri...

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In these notes, we survey developments on the asymptotic behavior of the largest eigenvalues of random matrix and random growth models, and describe the corresponding known non-asymptotic exponential bounds. We then discuss some elementary and accessible tools from measure concentration and functional analysis to reach some of these quantitative inequalities at the correct small deviation rate ...

Why process at all? Of course, the answer is ultimately feed efficiency, producing the most milk, eggs, meat or fiber at the lowest possible cost. Particle size reduction as the first step in the feed manufacturing process works toward the goal of improved feed efficiency by increasing the surface area of the materials being processed. This increases the amount of materials exposed to the anima...

We here provide a comprehensive study of the utility-deviation-risk portfolio selectionproblem. By considering the first-order condition for the corresponding objective function, we firstderive the necessary condition that the optimal terminal wealth satisfying two mild regularity con-ditions solves for a primitive static problem, called Nonlinear Moment Problem. We then illustrate<...

Ulnar deviation of the fingers at their metacarpophalangeal joints is perhaps the most characteristic deformity of rheumatoid arthritis. Nineteenth-century clinicians, among others Garrod (1859) and Charcot (1881), were impressed by its occurrence in chronic arthritis, but no views on the development of the deformity were recorded. The current opinion, that it results from gravity, is open to o...