Erratum to: Quality-of-life outcomes with laparoscopic vs open cholecystectomy
Authors: Amaia Bilbao,I. López de Tejada,José M. Quintana,José Luis Cabriada,Inmaculada Arostegui
In the “Materials and methods” section, under the subheading “Statistical analysis,” it was stated that just patients with ASA IV were in the high surgical risk group, whereas the high surgical risk group included patients with ASA III and ASA IV. Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Clouds in planetary atmospheres: A useful application of the Clausius–Clapeyron equation
Authors: Santiago Pérez-Hoyos,Ricardo Hueso,Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
The Clausius–Clapeyron equation is used to do a comparative study of the properties of the clouds that form in planetary atmospheres. Simple static atmospheric models for various planets, the satellite Titan, and the extrasolar planet HD209458b are used together with the saturation vapor pressure…
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Smoothing and Word Sense Disambiguation
Authors: Eneko Agirre,David Martinez
This paper presents an algorithm to apply the smoothing techniques described in [15] to three different Machine Learning (ML) methods for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). The method to obtain better estimations for the features is explained step by step, and applied to n-way ambiguities. The…
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
On the Interaction of Nearly Parallel Vortex Filaments
Authors: Gustavo Ponce,Luis Vega,Carlos E. Kenig
The system for the interaction of nearly parallel vortex filaments deduced by Klein, Majda and Damodaran is considered. Local existence for the associated initial value problem with data which are small perturbations of perfect parallel filaments is proved. Assumptions on the unperturbed…
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Predictors of improvement in health-related quality of life in patients undergoing cholecystectomy
Authors: I. López de Tejada,José Luis Cabriada,Luis Perdigo,José M. Quintana,Inmaculada Arostegui
AbstractBackgroundFew studies have assessed health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients undergoing cholecystectomy. This study aimed to determine clinical variables that predict changes in HRQoL following cholecystectomy.MethodsThis was a prospective study of consecutive patients…
Oxford University Press (OUP)
EPIC simulations of the merger of Jupiter's White Ovals BE and FA: altitude-dependent behavior
Authors: Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,Raul Morales-Juberias,Raul Morales-Juberias,Timothy E. Dowling
Abstract Observations of the merger of Jupiter's White Ovals BE and FA show altitude-dependent behavior that we seek to capture in numerical simulations. In particular, it was observed that the upper portions of the vortices orbited each other before merging, but the lower portions translated…
Elsevier BV
Energy concentration and Sommerfeld condition for Helmholtz and Liouville equations
Authors: Benoît Perthame,Luis Vega
Abstract We consider the Helmholtz equation with a variable index of refraction n(x), which is not necessarily constant at infinity but can have an angular dependency like n(x)→n∞(x/|x|) as |x|→∞. We prove that the Sommerfeld condition at infinity still holds true under the weaker form 1 R…
Cellule MathDoc/Centre Mersenne
Averaging lemmas and the X-ray transform
Authors: Pierre Emmanuel Jabin,Luis Vega
Abstract We introduce a new method to prove averaging lemmas, i.e., prove a regularizing effect on the average in velocity of a solution to a kinetic equation. The method does not require the use of Fourier transform and the whole procedure is performed in the ‘real space’; it leads to estimating…
Cellule MathDoc/Centre Mersenne
A strong decrease in Saturn's equatorial jet at cloud level
Authors: Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,Richard G. French,Ricardo Hueso,Santiago Pérez-Hoyos,Jose Félix Rojas
The atmospheres of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn have a puzzling system of zonal (east-west) winds alternating in latitude, with the broad and intense equatorial jets on Saturn having been observed previously to reach a velocity of about 470 m x s(-1) at cloud level. Globally, the location…
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Quality-of-life outcomes with laparoscopic vs open cholecystectomy
Authors: Amaia Bilbao,I. López de Tejada,José Luis Cabriada,Inmaculada Arostegui,José M. Quintana
Few studies have assessed the health outcomes of patients who underwent cholecystectomy. The goal of this study was to evaluate the health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) improvement of patients undergoing laparoscopic versus open cholecystectomy.A prospective observational study was performed of…
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Scattering of cylindrical thermal waves in fiber composites: In-plane thermal diffusivity
Authors: R. Celorrio,Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,Agustín Salazar
In this article, we present a general solution for the ac temperature field of an opaque material containing aligned subsurface cylinders produced by a modulated line illumination parallel to the cylinders. This work completes the case of plane illumination treated in a previous paper [J. M. Terrón…
AIP Publishing
Sommerfeld condition for a Liouville equation and concentration of trajectories
Authors: Benoît Perthame,Luis Vega
We analyse the concentration of trajectories in a Liouville equation set in the full space with a potential which is not constant at infinity. Our motivation comes from geometrical optics where it appears as the high freqency limit of Helmholtz equation. We conjecture that the mass and energy…
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Evaluation of the psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Authors: Angel Padierna,Cristóbal Esteban,Amaia Bilbao,Inmaculada Arostegui,José M. Quintana,Irune Ruiz
Objective: To assess the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS).Method: We administered HADS to 685 participants (256 controls and 429 patients with five different diagnoses). The reliability of the instrument was assessed by a test–…
Wiley
Variable search space for software testing
Authors: Jose A. Lozano,Ramón Sagarna
Testing is an essential phase in the software life cycle. One of the most important tasks testing involves is the automatic generation of the test inputs. The field of evolutionary testing aims at solving this task by means of combinatorial optimization search methods. An evolutionary testing based…
IEEE
Relation between estimates of myocardial ischemia using high resolution electrocardiography and scintigraphic images
Authors: R. Groshon,Michael Ringborn,Elisabete Aramendi,Leif Sörnmo,Paul Lander,Ralph Lazzara,Galen S. Wagner
Presents some preliminary data suggesting that acute myocardial ischemia may be uniquely detectable in the QRS complex of the high resolution ECG. It is hypothesized that acute ischemia may create functional block, leading to ischemically-altered ventricular activation patterns. The study assessed…
IEEE
A Comparative Study of Jovian Cyclonic Features from a Six-Year (1994–2000) Survey
Authors: Morales-Juberías, Raúl,Sánchez-Lavega, Agustín,Lecacheux, Jean,Colas, François
Abstract This work presents a six-year study aimed at characterizing the morphology and properties of the atmospheric features present in jovian cyclonic regions. It complements our previous analysis for the same period on the anticyclonic vortices (Morales-Juberias et al. 2002, Icarus 157,…
Elsevier BV
Study of high impedance fault detection in Levante area in Spain
Authors: A. Lazkano,Luis A. Leturiondo,Elisabete Aramendi,J.A. Gonzalez,Jesus Ruiz
This paper presents a study of high impedance fault detection in a particular case of the Spanish power distribution network. It aims to carry out an analysis of high impedance fault riskiness in three-wire distribution systems. A study of the presumed fault is performed considering 64N protection…
IEEE
A new approach to high impedance fault detection using wavelet packet analysis
Authors: Elisabete Aramendi,A. Lazkano,Luis A. Leturiondo,Jesus Ruiz
The paper presents a new approach to high impedance fault detection based on wavelet packet analysis. The nature and dynamics of the arc phenomenon related to high impedance faults are analyzed. A background is reported about wavelet transform and wavelet packet decomposition. Then, detecting…
IEEE
Changes in health related quality of life among patients treated for eating disorders.
Authors: Angel Padierna,M.J. Horcajo,José M. Quintana,Inmaculada Arostegui,Nerea González
To prospectively investigate changes in the perception of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among eating disorder patients after 2 years of treatment and follow-up and clinical predictors of change.One hundred and thirty-one consecutive subjects were recruited from an eating disorder…
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Density-functional study of the stabilization of the Si(001) dimer vacancy by Ni
Authors: R. H. Nobes,Elena Akhmatskaya,Jan Andzelm,Andrew P. Horsfield,Niranjan Govind,George Fitzgerald
For many condensed matter problems, atomic type orbitals offer good computational efficiency. We have studied the clean surface of silicon using the program ${\mathrm{DMOL}}^{3}$ and obtain results in excellent agreement with well converged plane-wave calculations. We then proceed to study the…
American Physical Society (APS)
Observations of Saturn's Ribbon Wave 14 Years after Its Discovery
Authors: Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
Abstract A singular feature in planetary atmospheres, the saturnian midnorthern latitude “ribbon” wave, was discovered in images obtained during the Voyager 1 and 2 encounters with the planet in 1980 and 1981. Here we present evidence of its first detection 14 years later (about half a Saturn…
Elsevier BV
A Comparative Study of Jovian Anticyclone Properties from a Six-Year (1994–2000) Survey
Authors: Morales-Juberías, Raúl,Sánchez-Lavega, Agustín,Lecacheux, Jean,Colas, François
Abstract We have used the Hubble Space Telescope archived images of Jupiter for the period 1994–2000, complemented by ground-based telescopic observations, to study in detail the long-term properties of synoptic-scale anticyclonic vortices (size > 1500 km, lifetime > months). We have also…
Elsevier BV