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Keratoconus Staging: A Computer-Assisted Ultrabiomicroscopic Method Compared With Videokeratographic Analysis

Rational QZ Steps with perfect shifts

In this paper we analyze the stability of the problem of performing a rational QZ$step with a shift that is an eigenvalue of a given regular pencil H-lambda K in unreduced Hessenberg-Hessenberg form. In exact arithmetic, the backward rational QZ step moves the eigenvalue to the top of the pencil,…

Multilevel parallelism for the exploration of large-scale graphs

We present the most recent release of our parallel implementation of the BFS and BC algorithms for the study of large scale graphs. Although our reference platform is a high-end cluster of new generation NVIDIA GPUs and some of our optimizations are CUDA specific, most of our ideas can be applied…

Impairment of circulating endothelial progenitors in Down syndrome

Background: Pathological angiogenesis represents a critical issue in the progression of many diseases. Down syndrome is postulated to be a systemic anti-angiogenesis disease model, possibly due to increased expression of anti-angiogenic regulators on chromosome 21. The aim of our study was to…

Spin, acceleration and Gravity

The massless field perturbations of the accelerating Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes are studied. The results are extended to the propagation of the Proca field in Rindler spacetime. We examine critically the possibility of existence of a general spin–acceleration coupling in complete…

Quantitative Multidimensional Central Limit Theorems for Means of the Dirichlet-Ferguson Measure

The Dirichlet-Ferguson measure is a cornerstone in nonparametric Bayesian statistics and the study of distributional properties of expectations with respect to such measure is an important line of research. In this paper we provide explicit upper bounds for the d2, the d3 and the convex distance…

Effect of flow on ATP/ADP concentration at the endothelial cell surface: interplay between shear stress and mass transport

The nucleotides ATP and ADP regulate many aspects of endothelial cell (EC) biology, including intracellular calcium concentrations, focal adhesion activation, cytoskeletal organization, and cellular motility. In vivo, ECs are constantly under flow, and the concentration of ATP/ADP on the EC surface…

Moser type inequalities for higher-order derivatives in Lorentz spaces

Sharp constants are exhibited in exponential inequalities corresponding to the limiting case of the Sobolev inequalities in Lorentz-Sobolev spaces of arbitrary order.

Decay of positive waves for $n \times n$ hyperbolic systems of balance laws

High-Reynolds-number turbulent cavity flow using the lattice Boltzmann method

We present a boundary condition scheme for the lattice Boltzmann method that has significantly improved stability for modeling turbulent flows while maintaining excellent parallel scalability. Simulations of a three-dimensional lid-driven cavity flow are found to be stable up to the unprecedented…