Survival for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) increased to nearly 40 years in 2012 from the early childhood years in the 1940s. Therefore, patients are living long enough to require transition from pediatric CF centers to adult CF centers. The goal of transition is for the young adult to be engaged in the adult health care system in ways that optimize health, maximize potential, and increase ...

In this paper, we develop various calculus rules for general smooth matrix-valued functions and for the class of matrix convex (or concave) functions first introduced by Löwner and Kraus in 1930s. Then we use these calculus rules and the matrix convex function − log X to study a new notion of weighted centers for semidefinite programming (SDP) and show that, with this definition, some known pro...

The nuclear inelastic scattering signatures of the low-spin centers of the methanosulphonate, tosylate, and perchlorate salts of the spin crossover polymer ([Fe(II)(4-amino-1,2,4-triazole)3])n have been compared for the low-spin phase, for the mixed high-spin and low-spin phases, as well as for Zn(II) diluted samples. Within this series a change in the vibrational pattern in the 320–500 cm ́1 re...

This paper is about the existence and regularity of the transition probability matrix of a nonhomogeneous continuous-time Markov process with a countable state space. A standard approach to prove the existence of such a transition matrix is to begin with a continuous (in t) and conservative matrix Q(t) = [qij(t)] of nonhomogeneous transition rates qij(t), and use it to construct the transition ...

Estimation procedures for nonstationary Markov chains appear to be relatively sparse. This work introduces empirical  Bayes estimators  for the transition probability  matrix of a finite nonstationary  Markov chain. The data are assumed to be of  a panel study type in which each data set consists of a sequence of observations on N>=2 independent and identically dis...

We present measurements of the emission from the centers of fifteen spiral galaxies in the P1 − 3 P0 [CI] fine-structure transition at 492 GHz. Observed galaxy centers range from quiescent to starburst to active. The intensities of neutral carbon, the J=2–1 transition of CO and the J=4–3 transition of CO are compared in matched beams. Most galaxy centers emit more strongly in [CI] than in CO, c...

kefiran is an exopolysaccharide produced by microorganisms present in the kefir grains that has several health promoting properties. in this research, physico-mechanical and thermal characteristics of nanocomposite film composed of kefiran-montmorillonite (mmt; 1, 3 and 5% w/w) were studied. results showed that the thickness and the tensile strength of the films increased by increasing the nano...