Dementia in general and Alzheimer's disease in particular is increasingly seen in association with autoimmunity being causatively or supportively involved in the pathogenesis. Besides classic autoantibodies (AABs) present in dementia patients, there is the new autoantibody class called functional autoantibodies, which is directed against G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs; GPCR-AABs) and are se...

In a design process products can be described by the requests of users, the requirements of design, functional structures, sketches and technical drawings [1]. The complexity, one of the main problems of conceptual design [2], is included into the modelling and representation of a design solution. To represent a design solution in its conceptual phase, and are of particular importance. The mean...

The most popular econometric models in the panel data literature are the class of linear panel data models with unobserved individualand/or time-specific effects. The consistency of parameter estimators and the validity of their economic interpretations as marginal effects crucially depend on the correct functional form specification of the linear panel data model. Based on an individual-specif...

In animal and fungal model organisms, the complexities of cell biology have been analyzed in exquisite detail and much is known about how these organisms function at the cellular level. However, the model organisms cell biologists generally use include only a tiny fraction of the true diversity of eukaryotic cellular forms. The divergent cellular processes observed in these more distant lineage...

Several common flexible functional forms are evaluated for Texas agricultural production utilizing three procedures. Nested hypothesis tests indicate that the normalized quadratic is the marginally-preferred functional form followed by the generalized Leontief. Predictive accuracy results are ambiguous between the generalized Leontief and the normalized quadratic. Statistical performance favors...

where M is the mass of the ground state, and Γ is channel dependent. The presence of the decaying exponential has led to investigations being focused on the large Euclidean time “tails” of the two-point functions, and data at small times being discarded. The question was asked, “Is there a way of obtaining information from short times?”. The answer was “Yes” a QCD Sum Rules approach. Lattice QC...

This note develops an encompassing model for two well known variants of the negative binomial model (the NB1 and NB2 forms). We conclude with an application of the proposed model using the data employed in a recent health care study. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

This paper presents FunctionalForms, a combinator library for constructing fully functioning forms in a concise and flexible way. A form is a part of a graphical user interface (GUI) restricted to displaying a value and allowing the user to modify it. The library is built on top of the medium-level GUI library wxHaskell. To obtain complete separation between the structure of a form’s layout and...

This paper develops a separable functional form in which all the relevant aggregator functions are modeled to the desired degree of approximation. This leads to separable structures that are more flexible than those implied by parametric restrictions of flexible functional forms. Tests of separability can then be accomplished in a non-nested framework. This approach is illustrated with an appli...

The hemispheric lateralization of certain faculties in the human brain has long been held to be beneficial for functioning. However, quantitative relationships between the degree of lateralization in particular brain regions and the level of functioning have yet to be established. Here we demonstrate that two distinct forms of functional lateralization are present in the left vs. the right cere...