Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation (SLOPE, [10]) is a relatively new convex optimization procedure which allows for adaptive selection of regressors under sparse high dimensional designs. Here we extend the idea of SLOPE to deal with the situation when one aims at selecting whole groups of explanatory variables instead of single regressors. This approach is particularly useful when variables in ...

Studies of DEM error have consistently found a link between terrain characteristics such as slope shape or steepness and error. This link is explored by looking at error in relation to various geomorphometric measures for a study area in Scotland. The magnitude of error is found to vary systematically between convex, planar and convex areas and measures of terrain roughness show some degree of ...

results totally, 20 patients completed the study. the cms and pain scores significantly improved after the block. conclusions the use of the modified lateral ssnb of feigl significantly reduces pain and increases shoulder function, in chronic shoulder pain. patients and methods patients were evaluated using the constant-murley score (cms) and number rating scale values for pain. the ssn was blo...

background: identifying the predisposing factors of neck and shoulder complaints and finding solutions to avoid them could improve the occupational health condition of the nurses. in this study, we aimed at determining the role of psychological and physical occupational factors in developing neck and shoulder complaints among the participants.   methods: this analytic cross-sectional study was ...

we first obtain some properties of a fundamentally nonexpansive self-mapping on a nonempty subset of a banach space and next show that if the banach space is having the opial condition, then the fixed points set of such a mapping with the convex range is nonempty. in particular, we establish that if the banach space is uniformly convex, and the range of such a mapping is bounded, closed and con...

There is now substantial evidence that during visual search, previously searched distractors are stored in memory to prevent them from being reselected. Studies examining which memory resources are involved in this process have indicated that while a concurrent spatial working memory task does affect search slopes, depleting visual working memory (VWM) resources does not. In the present study, ...

We construct unconditionally stable, unconditionally uniquely solvable, and secondorder accurate (in time) schemes for gradient flows with energy of the form ∫ Ω(F (∇φ(x))+ 2 2 |Δφ(x)|2) dx. The construction of the schemes involves the appropriate combination and extension of two classical ideas: (i) appropriate convex-concave decomposition of the energy functional and (ii) the secant method. A...

The fluorescence intensity profiles of thin cross-sections of human lenses were determined as a function of age by scanning microspectrofluorimetry with blue light excitation close to that available in conventional slit-lamp examination (filter transmission maximum 410 nm). The fluorescence intensity of the entire nuclear region increased with age. The profile of the adult lens was manifested a...

This paper considers robust stability and robust performance analysis for discrete-time linear systems subject to nonlinear uncertainty. The uncertainty set is described by memoryless, time-invariant, sector bounded, and slope restricted nonlinearities. We first give an overview of the absolute stability criterion based on the Lur’e-Postkinov Lyapunov function, along with a frequency domain con...