Dr Shah and co-authors comment

A Comment on Work by Booth and Co-authors

Booth and his co-authors have shown in [2], that many new approaches to theory revision (with fixed K) can be represented by two relations, < and , where < is the usual ranked relation, and is a sub-relation of < . They have, however, left open a characterization of the infinite case, which we treat here.

Comment: Understanding OR, PS and DR

We congratulate Kang and Schafer (KS) on their excellent article comparing various estimators of a population mean in the presence of missing data, and thank the Editor for organizing the discussion. In this communication, we systematically examine the propensity score (PS) and the outcome regression (OR) approaches and doubly robust (DR) estimation, which are all discussed by KS. The aim is to...

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Comment on the papers ‘Creep and recrystallization of large polycrystalline masses’ by Faria and co-authors

In a series of three papers, Faria and co-authors have presented the application of the theory of mixture with continuous diversity to the creep and recrystallization processes of large polycrystallinemasses. In this approach, amaterial point of the continuum is composed of a huge number of grains defined by their crystallographic orientation. The polycrystal is then seen as a continuousmixture...

Authors reply to Dr. Kawada's comments.

We thank Dr. Kawada for his insightful comments [1] on our study [2], which highlights the importance of the C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration as a significant risk marker for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Dr. Kawada argued that stratified analyses by gender for the association between CRP concentrations and MetS should be performed in our study, given that there were gender differences in th...