PURPOSE To develop and test a short and reliable visual field threshold program for the early detection of glaucomatous visual field loss, by adapting the Swedish interactive test algorithm (SITA) to short-wavelength-automated-perimetry (SWAP). METHODS Computer simulations were performed to test the accuracy of several versions of SITA SWAP, and to optimize speed versus reliability. The selec...

PURPOSE To compare intersubject variability and normal limits of threshold values between the new Swedish interactive test algorithm short wavelength automated perimetry (SITA SWAP) and the older Full Threshold SWAP programs (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA). METHODS Normal reduction of differential light sensitivity with age, age-corrected thresholds, intersubject variability, and normal limi...

This paper investigates the relative role of price discovery between two long-term swap contracts that exchange U.S. dollars for Japanese yen – the cross-currency basis swap and the foreign exchange (FX) swap – using structural state space models. Our main findings are that: (i) the currency swap market plays a much more dominant role in price discovery than the FX swap market; and (ii) FX swap...

An interest rate swap is a contract between two parties to exchange periodically fixed rate payments for floating rate payments based on an agreed-upon notional principal and maturity. The fixed rate is known as the swap rate and a swap curve can be constructed using swap rates of different maturities. The swap curve is widely used by financial market participants as the benchmark for the prici...

Spontaneous maturation observed in dendritic cell (DC) cultures has been linked to their capacity to induce immune responses. Despite several recent studies, the mechanisms and signals triggering spontaneous maturation of DCs are largely unknown. We found that the absence of SWAP-70 causes spontaneous maturation of spleen- and bone marrow-derived DCs and, in vivo, of spleen-resident CD11c(+)CD1...

In this paper we introduce the notion of best swap for a failing edge of a single source shortest paths tree (SPT) S(r) rooted in r in a weighted graph G = (V, E). Given an edge e ∈ S(r), an edge e′ ∈ E \{e} is a swap edge if the swap tree Se/e′(r) obtained by swapping e with e′ in S(r) is a spanning tree of G. A best swap edge for a given edge e is a swap edge minimizing some distance function...

SWAP-70, a phosphatidylinositol trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3)) binding protein, has been suggested to be involved in transformation of mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) as well as membrane ruffling after growth factor stimulation of the cells. A mutant, SWAP-70-374, was found to be able to bind to F-actin in vitro, whereas wild-type SWAP-70 failed to do so. This mutant was present at the plasm...