We consider estimation in a semiparametric generalized linear model for clustered data using estimating equations. Our results apply to the case where the number of observations per cluster is Ž nite, whereas the number of clusters is large. The mean of the outcome variable Œ is of the form g4Œ5 D X‚C ˆ4T 5, where g4¢5 is a link function, X and T are covariates, ‚ is an unknown parameter vector...

I NFANTS born prematurely experience a greater than usual number of serious illnesses throughout the first 2 years of life.1-4 We have previously reported5 that 1 out of every 4 premature infants discharged from our nursery required re-admission to the hospital before the second birthday, usually for treatment of pneumonia or diar rheal disease. The great majority of these babies were also foun...

s of papers presented at the meeting follow. Those with t after the abstract number were presented by title. In the case of joint papers, the name of the author who read the paper is followed by (p). Mr. Ornstein was introduced by Professor Irving Kaplansky and Professor L. V. Toralballa by Professor J. W. T. Youngs. ALGEBRA AND THEORY OF NUMBERS 123/. K. T. Chen: Integration of paths—geometric...

Domain-initial strengthening has primarily been studied for consonants. This paper examines whether vowels also undergo boundary-induced phonetic variation and questions how this effect interacts with phonological contrast in a dense vowel system such as that of French. The labial articulation and the acoustic properties of the 10 French oral vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, y, ø, œ, u, o, ɔ/ are examined i...

This paper deals with the perception of linguistic and paralinguistic qualities conveyed by synthetic vowels produced with an articulatory model in which transfer functions of the French vowels /i y e ø  œ/ characteristic of five growth stages were each combined with five different F0 values. Listeners had to judge the speaker's age and sex in addition to vowel quality. Four subgroups of liste...

This was mentioned in [S4], and in fact in [S2]. We shall first sketch the proof and then point out some applications of the theorem and the method. We generalize the notion of indiscernibility used in Ehrenfeucht-Mostowski models (from [EM]). Let I be an (index) model, M EL model and, for each sel,äs is a (finite) sequence from M. For s = , s(l) e 7,let ä-s = äs{Q) A ••• A...

The research described in this paper tries to explain the emergence and structure of systems of speech sounds. It investigates how a coherent system of speech sounds can emerge in a population of agents and how the constraints under which the system emerges impose structure through self-organisation. If self-organisation can explain structure, then innate and biologically evolved mechanisms are...

I NFANTS born prematurely experience a greater than usual number of serious illnesses throughout the first 2 years of life.1-4 We have previously reported5 that 1 out of every 4 premature infants discharged from our nursery required re-admission to the hospital before the second birthday, usually for treatment of pneumonia or diar rheal disease. The great majority of these babies were also foun...

Pain resulting from chronic nerve injury or damage (so-called neuropathic pain) is a common and debilitating condition. Many studies indicate that tetrodotoxinresistant (TTX-R) sodium channels are highly expressed in nociceptors, the sensory neurons that mediate pain. It has also been suggested that a reduction in TTX-R expression or function reduces pain. Similarly, because axonal injury cause...