In the literature, there are different criteria to represent the formation of a leader channel in short and long gap discharges. Due to the complexity of the physics of the heating phenomena, and the limitations of the computational resources, a simplified criterion for the minimum amount of electrical charge required to incept an unstable leader has recently been used for modeling long gap dis...

Non-malleable codes (NMCs), introduced by Dziembowski, Pietrzak and Wichs [DPW10], provide a useful message integrity guarantee in situations where traditional error-correction (and even errordetection) is impossible; for example, when the attacker can completely overwrite the encoded message. NMCs have emerged as a fundamental object at the intersection of coding theory and cryptography. A lar...

OBJECTIVE To determine which cut-off point in the RA disease activity score (DAS28) corresponds to fulfilment of the ARA criteria for clinical remission. METHODS The disease activity of patients included in the Nijmegen RA inception cohort was systematically assessed every 3 months. For all visits, a modification of the ARA preliminary criteria for clinical remission was applied and the DAS28...

Because of the complexity of the flow field in a trailing vortex, prediction of tip vortex cavitation inception on a hydrofoil or a propeller still relies heavily on model tests and application of cavitation scaling. Experiments indicate that the major parameters influencing tip vortex cavitation inception are fluid viscosity (Reynolds number) and free stream nuclei (Weber number). A scaling me...

Nutrition & Metabolism was co-founded by Drs. Feinman and Hussain in 2004 as an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal to keep readers up-to-date on recent developments in important areas of nutrition, exercise physiology, clinical investigations, and molecular and cellular biochemistry of metabolism. The journal is dedicated to expedite rapid publication of manuscripts that significantly a...

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Deep generative models are powerful tools that have produced impressive results in recent years. These advances have been for the most part empirically driven, making it essential that we use high quality evaluation metrics. In this paper, we provide new insights into the Inception Score, a recently proposed and widely used evaluation metric for generative models, and demonstrate that it fails ...

Our case-based reasoning (CBI~) integration with the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) formalism has undergone several transformations on its journey from initial research idea to product-intent design. Both unexpected research results as well as interesting insights into the real-world applicability of the integrated methodology emerged as the integration was explored from alternative view...

A dynamical understanding of the physical process surface gravity wave breaking remains an unresolved problem in fluid dynamics. Conceptually, can be described by inception and onset, where is initiation unknown irreversible processes within a crest that precede visible manifestation onset. In search for energetic indicator inception, we use ensemble non-breaking crests evolving unsteady packet...