wnloaded kground: Prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are available, but uptake is suboptimal. ation on factors influencing parental decisions regarding vaccination will facilitate the development of sful interventions. thods: Parents of girls ages 9 to 17 years (n = 476; cooperation rate = 67%) from a panel of U.S. housecompleted online surveys between September 2007 and January 2...

This lecture introduces testing methods for the protection of children in vehicles. In order to reduce the fatalities and injuries of children in transportation state of the art child protection is mandatory. Global laws and regulations such as ECE or FMVSS are introduced and compared with New Car Assessment programs (NCAP). Engineering tools and equipment to test according to global child prot...

Abstract We consider a general linear program in standard form whose right-hand side constraint vector is subject to random perturbations. For the corresponding program, we characterize under assumptions fluctuations of empirical optimal solutions around their population quantities after standardization by distributional limit theorem. Our approach geometric nature and further relies on duality...

A four-channel control architecture has been suggested in the literature to achieve transparency for master-slave teleoperator systems under position control. In this paper, the result is generalized to include teleoperator systems that are under rate control or more general master-slave kinematic correspondence laws, such as a mixedposition/rate mode. A one-degree-of-freedom example is given t...

We derive, in path integral approach, the (anomalous) master Ward identity associated with an infinite set of nonlocal conservation laws in two-dimensional principal chiral models. To appear in the special issue of the Foundations of Physics in honor of Professor M. Namiki on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The distinctive merit of the declarative reading of logic programs is the validity of all the laws of reasoning supplied by the predicate calculus with equality Surprisingly many of these laws are still valid for the procedural reading they can therefore be used safely for algebraic manipulation program transformation and optimisation of executable logic programs This paper lists a number of co...

Recent studies on the laws and mathematical constraints of software have resulted in fundamental discoveries in computing and software engineering toward exploring the nature of software. It was recognized that software is not constrained by any physical laws discovered in the natural world. However, software obeys the laws of mathematics, cognitive informatics, system science, and formal lingu...