Background Patients with heart failure (HF) frequently suffer from undetected declines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), which significantly increases their risk of poor outcomes. However, current ...

Heat stress is widely recognized as a critical risk factor in livestock systems. Rising temperatures and humidity levels can ...

This article shows a study of the level of reliability of welded and bolted connections in cold formed steel members, for some limiting states, adopted by AISI and Brazilian codes. The aim of this ...

This paper was prepared with the partial support of the U. S. Army Research Office (Durham), grant DA-ARO (D)-31-124-G83. Note: The article usage is presented with a three- to four-day delay and will ...

The FactorGraph package provides the set of different functions to perform inference over the factor graph with continuous or discrete random variables using the belief propagation algorithm. A ...

Abstract: We derive the exact probability density functions (pdf) and distribution functions (cdf) of a product of n independent Rayleigh distributed random variables. The case n=1 is the classical ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose a novel procedure for deriving a discrete counterpart to a continuous probability distribution. This procedure or, better, this class of procedures, is based on an ...