BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Research has demonstrated that after exposure treatment, re-exposure to a previously feared stimulus outside of the treatment context can result in renewal of fear. The current study investigated whether conducting exposure treatment in multiple real-life contexts can attenuate renewal of fear. METHODS Forty-six moderate to high spider fearful individuals were random...

A cyclic renewal process is considered as an extension of an alternating renewal process, where each of the underlying independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) nonnegative random increments is composed of multiple stages. Such a process may be appropriate for analyzing optimal preventive maintenance policies for production management, where a pair of two stages representing an uptime ...

When an i.i.d. sequence of letters is cut into words according to i.i.d. renewal times, an i.i.d. sequence of words is obtained. In the annealed LDP (large deviation principle) for the empirical process of words, the rate function is the specific relative entropy of the observed law of words w.r.t. the reference law of words. In Birkner, Greven and den Hollander [3] the quenched LDP (= conditio...

The microalgae cultivation can be used as alternative sources of food, in agriculture, residual water treatment, and biofuels production. Semicontinuous cultivation is little studied but is more cost-effective than the discontinuous (batch) cultivation. In the semicontinuous cultivation, the microalga is maintained in better concentration of nutrients and the photoinhibition by excessive cell i...

This article proves that the on–off renewal process withWeibull sojourn times satisfies the large deviation principle on a nonlinear scale. Unusually, its rate function is not convex. Apart from on a compact set, the rate function is infinite, which enables us to construct natural processes that satisfy the large deviation principle with nontrivial rate functions on more than one time scale.

It has been estimated that a serious myocardial infarction (MI) results in the loss of 1 billion functional cardiomyocytes, which are replaced with a fibrous scar, frequently leading to heart failure. Experimental data demonstrate that the mitotic renewal in the human myocardium exists but at a very low rate: 1% annually at the age of 25 and 0.45% at the age of 75. With this turnover rate, most...

Various classes of arrival processes in telecommunication traffic modeling based on heavy-tailed interarrival time distributions exhibit long-range dependence. This includes arrival rate processes of Anick-MitraSondhi (AMS) type where the rate process is an on/off-process with heavy-tailed on-period distribution and/or off-period distribution, as well as generalized Kosten type models (infinite...

Over the past ten years, State and Territory housing authorities have stressed the importance of resident participation in community and urban renewal. However, their renewal efforts have lacked a sound evidence base.Why is community participation seen as crucial? What are the most effective ways of promoting participation, and what are the practical barriers to residents getting involved? Mart...