The majority of weblog posting events are recorded and distributed by ping services. Weblogging is an international phenomenon, a fact reflected in the geographic information presented in many online profiles. By examining 24 hours of ping data from Weblogs.com, a popular ping server, and combining temporal analysis with URL decomposition and the profile information associated with webloggers, ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of using Ping On ointment and using petroleum jelly in the treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and masticatory muscle pain, in order to establish the true efficacy of Ping On ointment. METHODS In this randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, 55 subjects with TMJ and/or masticatory pain (Group I patients acco...

Kernel density estimators are the basic tools for density estimation in non-parametric statistics.  The k-nearest neighbor kernel estimators represent a special form of kernel density estimators, in  which  the  bandwidth  is varied depending on the location of the sample points. In this paper‎, we  initially introduce the k-nearest neighbor kernel density estimator in the random left-truncatio...

The synthesis of citronellyl butyrate by direct esterification reaction catalyzed by immobilized lipase from Candida rugosa was studied in a continuous packed bed reactor using n-hexane as organic solvent. Parameters such as residence time, temperature, and pH were examined. The optimum conversion was obtained at a flow rate of 1 ml/min (residence time 8 min), temperature of 50 °C, and pH 7.5. ...

Chemical maps of garnet are the key to understand the tectonometamorphic evolution of the metamorphic rocks. They provide useful information on element distribution, diffusion, and mechanical truncation of crystal. In the Himalayas, studies on ultra-high pressure rocks denudated along the Main Central Thrust (MCT) revealed the great displacement along this intracontinental shear zone. Pêcher (1...

In this paper we show that for a class of open quantum systems satisfying a natural dynamical assumption (see §2.2) the study of the resolvent, and hence of scattering, and of resonances, can be reduced, in the semiclassical limit, to the study of open quantum maps, that is of finite dimensional quantizations of canonical relations obtained by truncation of symplectomorphisms derived from the c...

Matrix data sets arise in network analysis for medical applications, where each belongs to a subject and represents measurable phenotype. These large dimensional are often modeled using lower-dimensional latent variables, which explain most of the observed variability can be used predictive purposes. In this paper, we provide asymptotic convergence guarantees estimation hierarchical statistical...

We propose a low-rank tensor approach to approximate linear transport and nonlinear Vlasov solutions their associated flow maps. The takes advantage of the fact that differential operators in equation is friendly, based on which we novel way dynamically adaptively build up solution basis by adding new functions from discretization PDE, removing an SVD-type truncation procedure. For discretizati...