— We consider the Neumann Laplacian with constant magnetic field on a regular domain in R2. Let B be the strength of the magnetic field and let λ1(B) be the first eigenvalue of this Laplacian. It is proved that B 7→ λ1(B) is monotone increasing for large B. Together with previous results of the authors, this implies the coincidence of all the “third” critical fields for strongly type 2 supercon...

The purpose of this study was to examine the possible relationship between factors modifiable by rehabilitation interventions (rehabilitation factors), other factors related to lower-limb loss (other factors), and high-level mobility as measured by the Comprehensive High-Level Activity Mobility Predictor (CHAMP) in servicemembers (SMs) with traumatic lower-limb loss. One-hundred eighteen male S...

We describe a new method for computing a dense displacement eld from a time-sequence of 2D or 3D images. It consists in minimizing an energy deened on the space of correspondence functions. This energy is divided into two terms, one term which matches contour points and particularly high curvature points, and one regularization term which constrains the continuity of the eld. We introduce an ad...

Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) refractivity climatologies for the stratosphere can be obtained from the Abel inversion of monthly average bending-angle profiles. The averaging of large numbers of profiles suppresses random noise and this, in combination with simple exponential extrapolation above an altitude of 80 km, circumvents the need for a “statistical optim...

The atmosphere sounding experiment of the German CHAMP (CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload) satellite mission was activated on February 11, 2001. Since then more than 110,000 occultations were recorded as of mid-December 2002. The results of nearly two years CHAMP GPS (Global Positioning System) occultation measurements and data analysis have shown, that significant improvements of the GPS radio...

Globally, pediatric HIV has largely become an adolescent epidemic. Thailand has the highest HIV prevalence in Asia (1.2%), with more than 14,000 children living with HIV. There is growing demand for evidence-based psychosocial interventions for this population that include health and mental health support and sexual risk reduction, which can be integrated into HIV care systems. To address this ...

We introduce CHAMP, an algorithm for online Bayesian changepoint detection in settings where it is difficult or undesirable to integrate over the parameters of candidate models. Rather than requiring integration of the parameters of candidate models as in several other Bayesian approaches, we require only the ability to fit model parameters to data segments. This approach greatly simplifies the...

Summary The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylationEPIC BeadChip is the new platform for high-throughput DNA methylation analysis, effectively doubling the coverage compared to the older 450 K array. Here we present a significantly updated and improved version of the Bioconductor package ChAMP, which can be used to analyze EPIC and 450k data. Many enhanced functionalities have been added, including ...