Seven premedicated patients were anaesthetized with thiopentone administered incrementally every 180 s while cerebral electrical activity was recorded with the Cerebral Function Analysing Monitor (CFAM). Arterial blood samples were collected at 40, 90 and 165 s after each bolus of thiopentone for the measurement of plasma total and bound thiopentone concentrations. The correlation between free ...

Recently, a novel method for image scrambling (and unscrambling) has been proposed. This method is based on a linear transformation involving the Kroneker-delta function. However, while quite interesting, the way it was introduced, leaves some open issues concerning its actual usability for information hiding. Therefore, in this paper, we extend the original proposal and show how it can be used...

We consider a wave equation with damping coefficient ∂ 2 u ∂t 2 (x, t) = ∂ 2 u ∂x 2 (x, t) + p1(x) ∂u ∂t (x, t) + p2(x) ∂u ∂x (x, t), 0 < x < 1, −T < t < T , u(x, 0) = 0, ∂u ∂t (x, 0) = δ(x), 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, ∂u ∂x (0, t) = ∂u ∂x (1, t) = 0, −T ≤ t ≤ T where T ≥ 2, the complex-valued functions p1, p2 ∈ C 1 [0, 1] and δ(x) is the Dirac delta function. We discuss an inverse problem of determining simul...

We develop some of the finer details of the location of the zeros of the weight two Eisenstein series. These zeros are the same as the zeros of the derivative of the Ramanujan delta function.

In [The Delta Conjecture, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear] Haglund, Remmel, Wilson introduce a conjecture which gives a combinatorial prediction for the result of applying a certain operator to an elementary symmetric function. This operator, defined in terms of its action on the modified Macdonald basis, has played a role in work of Garsia and Haiman on diagonal harmonics, the Hilbert schem...