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Effect of antenna element properties and array orientation on performance of MIMO systems
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Breakdown and recovery in traffic flow models
Most car-following models show a transition from laminar to ``congested''
flow and vice versa. Deterministic models often have a density range where a
disturbance needs a sufficiently large critical amplitude to move the flow from
the laminar into the congested phase. In stochastic models, it may be assumed
that the size of this amplitude gets translated into a waiting time, i.e.\
until fluctuations sufficiently add up to trigger the transition. A recently
introduced model of traffic flow however does not show this behavior: in the
density regime where the jam solution co-exists with the high-flow state, the
intrinsic stochasticity of the model is not sufficient to cause a transition
into the jammed regime, at least not within relevant time scales. In addition,
models can be differentiated by the stability of the outflow interface. We
demonstrate that this additional criterion is not related to the stability of
the flow. The combination of these criteria makes it possible to characterize
commonalities and differences between many existing models for traffic in a new
way
Insights Into the Chinese Pangolin's (Manis pentadactyla) Diet in a Peri-Urban Habitat: A Case Study From Hong Kong
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Bounds on Dimension Reduction in the Nuclear Norm
For all , we give
an explicit construction of matrices with such that for any and matrices
that satisfy \|A'_i-A'_j\|_{\schs} \,\leq\,
\|A_i-A_j\|_{\schs}\,\leq\, (1+\delta) \|A'_i-A'_j\|_{\schs} for all
and small enough , where is a
universal constant, it must be the case that .
This stands in contrast to the metric theory of commutative spaces, as
it is known that for any , any points in embed exactly in
for .
Our proof is based on matrices derived from a representation of the Clifford
algebra generated by anti-commuting Hermitian matrices that square to
identity, and borrows ideas from the analysis of nonlocal games in quantum
information theory.Comment: 16 page
Treatment of Intractable Neurogenic Cough with Cricopharyngeal Myotomy
Objectives: Neuropathic cough that is incompletely responsive to medical therapy may be due to cricopharyngeal hypertonicity. The objective was to describe the utility of cricopharyngeal myotomy in alleviating symptoms of intractable neuropathic cough.
Study Design: Retrospective review.
Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed for three patients who underwent cricopharyngeal myotomy for intractable cough. Trigger phenomena, previous evaluation and treatment, and outcomes after surgery, namely patient perception of improvement and medication use after surgery, were assessed and documented.
Results: After cricopharyngeal myotomy, all three patients noted symptomatic improvement and were weaned off medication. Continued improvement was noted at follow up, with a mean length of 22 months (range: 7-36 months).
Conclusions: Cricopharyngeal myotomy may be an alternative treatment for chronic cough in patients for whom workup is negative and medical management, dilation, and botulinum toxin have failed to provide long-term relief.
Poster presented at CSOM: Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting in Orlando Florida, April 10-14, 2013
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