∗Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138. Email: [email protected]. †Department of Statistics and Department of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305. Email: [email protected]. ‡Department of Health Research & Policy and Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305. Email: [email protected]. §Department of ...

The degree of depression in 88 abandoned children was analysed through a depression rating scale adapted to prepubertal children. The items were grouped into three dimensions: sociological-relational, psychological and biological. In 46 children from this sample it was dosed plasmatic cortisol and the urinary excretion of catecholamine, VMA, HVA and 5-HIAA. When analysing the principal componen...

Gene sequences in the vicinity of splice sites are found to possess dinucleotide periodicities, especially RR and YY, with the period close to the pitch of nucleosome DNA. This confirms previously reported findings about preferential positioning of splice junctions within the nucleosomes. The RR and YY dinucleotides oscillate counter-phase, i.e., their respective preferred positions are shifted...

OBJECTIVE To denote the metabolic imaging localization of seizure onset with ictal and interictal Neurolite single-photon emission computed tomographic scans and difference images made by subtracting activity at individual voxels of these images, which ultimately identify intense focal uptake in the trunk motor region and other, probably secondarily, propagated pathways. DESIGN Retrospective ...

Students interacted with an Intelligent Tutoring System called Operation ARIES!,which involves two agents interacting with the human in natural language trialogs. We investigated the conditions in which the length of the students’ contributions is correlated with learning. Word count and the proportional learning gains scores were correlated, especially in the later phases of the curriculum. Th...

abstract background: the prevalence of self‑neglect among the elderly is expected to rise with a rapid increase in the growth of the older population. however, self‑neglect in the elderly and the factors related to it are not fully understood due to the limited research in the area, lack of consensus in the definition of the concept, and limited instrumentation. the purpose of this study was to...

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that a robust predictor of the strength of an inductive argument is the similarity between the categories that are the focus of the induction. In this paper we evaluate why similarity is associated with the strength of such arguments. On one view, category similarity makes an argument strong because similarity is partially determined by features that are comm...

Correlate is a concurrent object-oriented language that has been used in real-world applications in areas of HighPerformance Computing, network applications and multi-agent systems. The practical goal of the language is to offer a powerful programming environment in which both application and system software can be described using the paradigm of concurrent objects. In this paper, the formal de...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with chronic visual field defects typically show a contralesional line bisection error (LBE). However, in the acute phase of the disease, it has been suggested that the LBE points to the ipsilesional side. The aims of the current study were first, to test whether specific lesions are associated with LBE, and second, to determine whether there is a difference in t...

This paper presents the algorithms which power Google Correlate[8], a tool which finds web search terms whose popularity over time best matches a user-provided time series. Correlate was developed to generalize the query-based modeling techniques pioneered by Google Flu Trends and make them available to end users. Correlate searches across millions of candidate query time series to find the bes...