We define signed dual volumes at all dimensions for circumcentric dual meshes. We show that for pairwise Delaunay triangulations with mild boundary assumptions these signed dual volumes are positive. This allows the use of such Delaunay meshes for Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) because the discrete Hodge star operator can now be correctly defined for such meshes. This operator is crucial for ...

Title Predominant prevalence of arterial thrombosis in Japanese patients with antiphospholipid syndrome Author(s) Fujieda, Yuichiro; Atsumi, Tatsuya; Amengual, Olga; Odani, Toshio; Otomo, Kotaro; Kato, Masaru; Oku, Kenji; Kon, Yujiro; Horita, Tetsuya; Yasuda, Shinsuke; Koike, Takao Citation Lupus, 21(14): 1506-1514 Issue Date 2012-12 Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/54013 Right The final, def...

Article history: Received 1 May 2012 Received in revised form 1 August 2012 Accepted 2 August 2012 Available online 15 August 2012

A combined weekly low dosage and short term standard dose treatment with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) to control Timorian filariasis is described. Weekly low dosage DEC was distributed by the village chief to all villagers for 6 months. The dosage of DEC was 50 mg weekly for group A, and 100 mg for group B. Children below 10 years of age received half the adult dose. Following the initial phase of ...

Article history: Received 23 May 2012 Received in revised form 17 September 2012 Accepted 2 November 2012 Available online xxxx

Article history: Received 2 March 2012 Received in revised form 26 October 2012 Accepted 8 November 2012 Available online xxxx

Like the Sanxingdui ruins, the Jinsha ruins are an important archaeological site in the Chengdu Plain. Excavation of these ruins may offer important evidence for the origins and evolution of the ancient Shu civilization. In order to protect historical relics during excavation, it is necessary to use INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SMART SENSING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS VOL. 6, NO. 2, APRIL 2013 Submitt...

Methods From Jan 2007-Dec 2012 under-5 mortality was identified by CHWs during their 3-monthly visits. A Research Assistant conducted Verbal Autopsies (VA). Each VA form was analyzed by 2 physicians, independently, and assigned a cause. VA is analyzed by a third physician in case two physicians do not agree on a cause. Cause Specific Mortality Fractions (CSMF) were calculated for each identifie...

A recent trend in cryptography is to construct cryptosystems that are secure against physical attacks. Such attacks are usually divided into two classes: the leakage attacks in which the adversary obtains some information about the internal state of the machine, and the tampering attacks where the adversary can modify this state. One of the popular tools used to provide tamper-resistance are th...