background and aims. temperament has been suggested to be a predictive factor for the child’s reaction to dental treatment especially in young ages. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between temperament and child behavior in relation to age in the dental setting. materials and methods. in this descriptive-analytical study, 190 children, aged 1 to 7 years, who visited dentist ...

With our participation in TREC 2005, we continue experiments using Terrier, a modular and scalable Information Retrieval (IR) framework, in 4 tasks from the Terabyte and Enterprise tracks. In the Terabyte track, we investigate new Divergence From Randomness weighting models, and a novel query expansion approach that can take into account various Web evidence, namely content, title and anchor te...

This note is based on my talk in the hot topics workshop at MSRI. My goals are to (1) Describe affine sieve: its most general setting and the fundamental theorem in the subject. (2) Convey the main ideas behind the proof of the fundamental theorem of affine sieve and its connection with expansion in linear groups. (3) Give a survey of some of the results on the expansion in linear groups and br...

In an open economy with a floaLing exchange rate, the efficacy of fiscal and monetary policy depends fundamentally on the wage-setting pnxiess. In the canonical models of Mundell and Fleming, monetary expansion raises output via an exchange rate depreciation, while fiscal expansion has no output effect. These results hold only when real wages can be altered by exchange rate movements; if the re...

In this paper we expand upon the theme of modified Fourier expansions and extend the theory to a multivariate setting and to expansions in eigenfunctions of the Laplace– Neumann operator. We pay detailed attention to expansions in a d-dimensional cube and to an effective derivation of expansion coefficients there by means of quadratures of highly oscillatory integrals. Thus, we present asymptot...

Droplets on insulating material suffer a nonvanishing total ponderomotive force because of the inhomogeneity of the surrounding electric field. A series expansion of this total force is proven in a two-dimensional setting by determining the line charge density at the boundary of the test body via a Fredholm integral equation, which is solved by Fourier techniques. The influence of electric char...

This review looks into the phylogeny of spermatogonial stem cells and describes their basic biological features. We are focusing on species-specific differences of spermatogonial stem cell physiology. We propose revised models for the clonal expansion of spermatogonia and for the potential existence of true stem cells and progenitors in primates but not in rodents. We create a new model for the...

There has been an explosion of scholarship on platform capitalism, with scholars identifying emergent labor practices, organizational forms, and business models. is broad agreement that successful companies quickly dominate their markets, winner-takes-all scenarios are common. However, market domination should not only be viewed as a condition but also process defined by specific drivers practi...

The Taylor expansion of λ-terms, as introduced by Ehrhard and Regnier, expresses a λ-term as a series of multi-linear terms, called simple terms, which capture bounded computations. Normal forms of Taylor expansions give a notion of infinitary normal forms, refining the notion of Böhm trees in a quantitative setting. We give the algebraic conditions over a set of normal simple terms which chara...

We find a Stroock formula in the setting of generalized chaos expansion introduced by Nualart and Schoutens for a certain class of Lévy processes, using aMalliavin-type derivative based on the chaotic approach. As applications, we get the chaotic decomposition of the local time of a simple Lévy process as well as the chaotic expansion of the price of a financial asset and of the price of a Euro...