Supreme Court blocks Alabama from executing inmate with method lower court found cruel and unusual

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...
GitHub

QuadriFlow: A Scalable and Robust Method for Quadrangulation

Source code for the paper: Jingwei Huang, Yichao Zhou, Matthias Niessner, Jonathan Shewchuk and Leonidas Guibas. QuadriFlow: A Scalable and Robust Method for Quadrangulation, The Eurographics ...
IEEE

A Design-of-Experiments-Based Approach for Efficient Estimation of Bimodal Gaussian Mixture Weights

Abstract: Normal mixture models are widely used to represent data arising from latent subpopulations. We propose a Design-of-Experiments (DOE) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) framework to ...
Healthline

Does Everyone Have Herpes? And Other Questions About HSV

Most people are exposed to HSV-1 in childhood. People can carry the viruses that cause oral and genital herpes without symptoms. The herpes simplex virus is incredibly common in the United States and ...
BMJ

Healthcare resource utilisation pattern and costs associated with herpes simplex virus diagnosis and management: a systematic review

Objectives Little is known about the economic burden of herpes simplex virus (HSV) across countries. This article aims to summarise existing evidence on estimates of costs and healthcare resource ...
GitHub

SoPlex: Sequential object-oriented simPlex

SoPlex is an optimization package for solving linear programming problems (LPs) based on an advanced implementation of the primal and dual revised simplex algorithm. It provides special support for ...
IEEE

On the Use of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method in Control Design and Systems Theory

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.
SciELO

PREVALENCE OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TYPE 2 AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS INFECTION IN WOMEN IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

SUMMARY The herpes simplex virus type 2 (HVS-2) is the most prevalent infection worldwide. It is a cofactor in the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the persistence of human ...
Cochrane

Antiviral medicines, interferon, and corneal surface removal in the treatment of herpes simplex virus infection of the eye

HSV infection of the eye causes pain and hazy vision. Antiviral eye medicines, interferon drops, and superficial wiping have been used to cure HSV infection of the corneal surface. The first ...
PNAS

Prevalence of simplex compression in adversarial deep neural networks

Despite the widespread success of neural networks, their susceptibility to adversarial examples remains a significant challenge. Adversarial training (AT) has emerged as an effective approach to ...
C&EN

Efficient Strategy for Synthesizing Vector-Free and Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Type 1 Viruses

Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese ...