The ability of immune-based cancer therapies to elicit beneficial CD8(+) CTLs is limited by tolerance pathways that inactivate tumor-specific CD4 Th cells. A strategy to bypass this problem is to engage tumor-unrelated CD4 Th cells. Thus, CD4 T cells, regardless of their specificity per se, can boost CD8(+) CTL priming as long as the cognate epitopes are linked via presentation on the same dend...

We present a procedure for the construction of multi-valued t-norms and t-conorms. Our procedure makes use of a pair of single-valued t-norms and the respective dual t-conorms and produces interval-valued t-norms u and t-conorms t. In this manner we combine desirable characteristics of different t-norms and t-conorms; if we use the t-norm ∧ and t-conorm ∨, then (X,u,t) is a superlattice, i.e. t...

The first volume of the Mathematical Intelligencer contains an article by Jurgen Moser “Is the solar system stable?” [23]. As a toy model for planetary motion, Moser proposed the system illustrated in figure 1 and called the dual (or outer) billiard. The dual billiard table P is a planar oval. Choose a point x outside P . There are two tangent lines from x to P ; choose one of them, say, the ri...

1 3 3 0 G S T R E E T N W , W A S H I N G T O N , D C 2 0 0 0 5 P H O N E : 2 0 2 3 4 7 5 2 7 0 , F A X : 2 0 2 3 4 7 5 2 7 4 W E B S I T E : W W W . K F F . O R G Chronic Disease and Co‐Morbidity Among Dual Eligibles: Implications for Patterns of Medicaid and Medicare Service Use and Spending By Judy Kasper, Molly O’Malley Watts and Barbara Lyons EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the passage of health...

In [1], Savage described a unified mathematical framework for strapdown inertial navigation algorithm design. The commenting note [2] showed that the " velocity translation vector " (VTV) in the Savage's framework is equivalent to the dual part of an appropriate screw vector in the dual quaternion representation [3] and significantly simplified the VTV rate equation by way of the screw vector r...

We present a procedure for constructing multi-valued tnorms and t-conorms. Our construction uses a pair of single-valued t-norms and the pair of dual t-conorms to construct interval-valued t-norms u and t-conorms t. In this manner we can combine desirable characteristics of different t-norms and t-conorms; furthermore if we use the t-norm ∧ and t-conorm ∨, then (X,u,t) is a superlattice, i.e. t...

Recently, research on two distinct types of wavelet frames have emerged, each with its own characteristics. The dual-tree discrete wavelet transform (DWT) [1] is based on the concatenation of two wavelet bases, where the two wavelets are designed to form a Hilbert transform pair, Ãg(t) = HfÃh(t)g [4]. A second type of wavelet frame is based on a single scaling function and two distinct wavelets...

The cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) of children at 3.0 T presents a unique set of technical challenges because of their small cardiac anatomical structures, fast heart rates, and the limited ability to keep motionless and hold breathe, which could cause problems associated with field inhomogeneity and degrade the image quality. The aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of dual-source par...

For a conic optimization problem P : minimizex c x s.t. Ax = b, x ∈ C and its dual D : supremumy,s b T y s.t. A y + s = c, s ∈ C, we present a geometric relationship between the primal objective function level sets and the dual objective function level sets, which shows that the maximum norms of the primal objective function level sets are nearly inversely proportional to the maximum inscribed ...