BACKGROUND Current parameters for assessing the efficacy of actinic keratosis (AK) treatments compare clinical lesions at the start and end of a study. However, the sun-exposed field also contains subclinical lesions which may become detectable during treatment. Lmax, the maximum lesion count during treatment, is a new concept to better assess the efficacy of field-directed AK therapies. Measur...

We address questions raised by Lobo et al. in 2012 regarding the NP-hard problem of finding an optimal allocation of workers to machine groups in a job shop so as to minimize Lmax, the maximum job lateness. Lobo et al. formulated a lower bound on Lmax given a worker allocation, and an algorithm to find an allocation yielding the smallest such lower bound. In this article we establish optimality...

It is accepted that noise pollution has a major impact on health, such as physical, physiological, psychological and performance related effects, all over the world. This study aims to evaluate noise pollution in four urban parks located in Sanandaj City, Iran and to zone it in GIS environment. Sound pressure level (SPL) and maximum sound level (Lmax) were measured at 45 points (each point was ...

The length of SOAP vectors is determined by a radial basis cutoff nmax and an angular basis (spherical harmonic) cutoff lmax. We tuned the SOAP parameters to produce the best predictive results for GB energy using a grid search over radial cutoff values from 3.5 : 0.5 : 6.0 (from next-nearest neighbor shell up to fifth-nearest neighbors), lmax ∈ [8, 20], and nmax ∈ [8, 20]. The best performance...

A common industrial operation is a dual resource constrained job shop where: (a) the objective is to minimize Lmax, the maximum job lateness; (b) machines are organized into groups; and (c) each worker is assigned to a specific machine group. Because this problem is NP-hard, finding optimal solutions by enumeration is impractical. This paper details a procedure to compute a lower bound on Lmax ...

A di-sk tree is a rooted binary whose nodes are labeled by $\oplus$ or $\ominus$, and no node has the same label as its right child. The trees in natural bijection with separable permutations. We construct combinatorial on proving two quintuples $(\mathrm{LMAX},\mathrm{LMIN},\mathrm{DESB},\mathsf{iar},\mathsf{comp})$ $(\mathrm{LMAX},\mathrm{LMIN},\mathrm{DESB},\mathsf{comp},\mathsf{iar})$ have ...

The purpose of this work was to perform the initial evaluation of primary diagnostic monitor (PDM) characteristics following the implementation of New York City quality assurance (NYC QA) regulations on January 1, 2016, and compare the results of the QA measurements performed by an external photometer and the PDM manufacturer's built-in photometer. TG-18 and Society of Motion Picture and Televi...

To develop a model of heart muscle, we studied cat papillary muscle contracting in a quasi-isometric condition under a fixed inotropic state. The properties of resting muscle were determined by using a step stretch of less than 1.2% of Lmax for initial lengths from 85 to 100% Lmax. The passive force response suggested the model of the passive branch (Fig. 1). All five parameters were small at m...

BACKGROUND In patients with actinic keratosis (AK), subclinical and clinical lesions coexist across large areas of sun-exposed skin. The long-term efficacy of AK treatments depends on their ability to eradicate both types of lesions across the entire field. OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term efficacy of imiquimod 3.75% using the reduction in lesions from Lmax (maximum lesion count during treat...

The Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) Green's function, multiple-scattering theory is an efficient site-centered, electronic-structure technique for addressing an assembly of N scatterers. Wave functions are expanded in a spherical-wave basis on each scattering center and indexed up to a maximum orbital and azimuthal number Lmax=(l,m)max, while scattering matrices, which determine spectral propertie...