Mean-field backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (MF-BSVIEs, for short) are introduced and studied. Well-posedness of MF-BSVIEs in the sense of introduced adapted Msolutions is established. Two duality principles between linear mean-field (forward) stochastic Volterra integral equations (MF-FSVIEs, for short) and MF-BSVIEs are obtained. Several comparison theorems for MF-FSVIEs and MF...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the morphological and functional characteristics of the aortic valve and the left ventricular (LV) systolic functional parameters and myocardial mass related to the severity of myocardial fibrosis (MF) in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (AS). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively enrolled 81 patients (48 men; mean age: 59±12 years) with severe A...

AIM To investigate the effects of a magnetic field (MF) on febrile seizure latency, seizure duration, and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings in a rat febrile convulsion model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six rats were randomly allocated into 1 of 6 groups: sham group (S), febrile convulsion (FC) group without MF exposure, MF group without FC, group exposed to MF before FC (MF + FC), gr...

ABSTRACT This study sought, through a factor analysis of 450 masculine-feminine (MF) items from nine established sources such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MNK), to determine whether in a college sample of 523 students there were a small number of factors common to both sexes, or if the MF scale consisted of so many weak factors that the practice of giving people scores on...

In this paper, objective function based group-wise successive interference cancellation (GSIC) receiver is proposed for a dual-rate DS-CDMA system. In the receiver, user signals are divided into 2 groups for their data rates. Initial bit estimates for the users in the group 1 are obtained by its matched filter (MF) bank. The initial bit estimates for the group 1 users are fed into the multi-use...

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the rich, young (∼20–45 Myrold) star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud to derive its stellar mass function (MF) down to ∼ 0.15 M⊙. This represents the deepest robust MF thus far obtained for a stellar system in an extragalactic, low-metallicity ([Fe/H] ≃ −0.4 dex) environment. Combining our results with the published MF for masses ab...

Ruxolitinib is an orally bioavailable, selective Janus kinase (JAK) 1 and 2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of myelofibrosis (MF), a bone marrow disease in which the JAK pathway is dysregulated, leading to impaired hematopoiesis and immune function. By inhibiting JAK1 and JAK2, ruxolitinib modulates cytokine-stimulated intracellular signaling. In a phase II clinical trial in patients with ...

Pulmonary alveolar fibroblasts produce extracellular matrix in a temporally and spatially regulated pattern to yield a durable yet pliable gas-exchange surface. Proliferation ensures a sufficient complement of cells, but they must differentiate into functionally distinct subtypes: contractile myofibroblasts (MF), which generate elastin and regulate air-flow at the alveolar ducts, and, in mice a...

The problem of approximating smooth L p-functions from spaces spanned by the integer translates of a radially symmetric function is very well understood. In case the points of translation, , are scattered throughout R d , the approximation problem is only well understood in the \stationary" setting. In this work, we provide lower bounds on the obtainable approximation orders in the \non-station...