Experimental allergic neuritis was induced in 30 rabbits with extract of bovine peripheral nerve in complete Freund's adjuvant. Of the 22 animals that completed the study, nine animals were plasmapheresed within two weeks of inoculation and 13 animals served as controls. The plasmapheresed animals developed a less severe form of EAN than the controls. Differences were apparent in clinical weakn...

In this paper we introduce weighted estimators of the location and dispersion of a multivariate data set with weights based on the ranks of the Mahalanobis distances. We discuss some properties of the estimators like the breakdown point, influence function and asymptotic variance. The outlier detection capacities of different weight functions are compared. A simulation study is given to investi...

Probabilistic modeling is cyclical: we specify a model, infer its posterior, and evaluate its performance. Evaluation drives the cycle, as we revise our model based on how it performs. This requires a metric. Traditionally, predictive accuracy prevails. Yet, predictive accuracy does not tell the whole story. We propose to evaluate a model through posterior dispersion. The idea is to analyze how...

The optical rotatory dispersion of five individual specimens of Bence-Jones proteins was investigated, including the far ultraviolet spectral zone. The Mo5tt constants (bo) were determined, and either low positive or low negative values were found. The rotatory dispersion curves of all specimens had flat negative minima at 220 to 235 rnp and positive maxima at 204 to 212 rnp. Denaturation with ...

An analytical solution for the transient two-dimensional atmospheric pollutant dispersion problem is presented. The approach used in this problem utilizes the double GITT (Generalized Integral Transform Technique), the Laplace Transform and the matrix diagonalization. Furthermore, mathematical filters are used due to the existence of non-homogeneous boundary conditions. The results we obtained ...

A [0, m]-space is a linear space with the following property: For any point-line pair (x, G) there are at most m lines through x which are coplanar with G and which have no point in common with G. For every [0, m]-space (M, 90l) we define an order o r d M in a natural way. For dimM~>3 and o r d M ~ > 3 m + 2 , every [0, m]-space (M, 991) can be embedded in a projective space (P, £) with dim P =...

Whtle many people report interruptions from problem-solking to be beneficial for the creative process (‘incubation’). experimental demonstration of the phenomenon has been difficult. Factors that might lead to incubation effects are discussed and implemented in a study in which SO university students solved u-ord-association problems under continuous work or interrupted condttions. The interrup...

Background Anthracyclines are important components of many chemotherapeutic protocols. The present study aimed to evaluate the repolarization changes in electrocardiography (ECG) which may predict drug induced arrhythmia. Materials and Methods In this cross-sectional study, the recorded ECGs were assessed for QT dispersion (QTd), QT corrected dispersion (QTcd), T peak to Tend dispersion (TPe...

The naive calculation of black hole evaporation makes the thermal emission depend on the arbitrary high frequency behaviour of the theory where the theory is certainly wrong. Using the sonic analog to black holes– dumb holes– I show numerically that a change in the dispersion relation at high frequencies does not seem to alter the evaporation process, lending weight to the reality of the black ...

The proteolytic enzyme, clostridiopeptidase B (clostripain), from Clostridium histo2yticum culture filtrates has been purified to apparent homogeneity as judged by ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels, immunodiffusion, and immunoelectrophoresis. The enzyme has an apparent molecular weight of 50,000 from sedimentation equilibrium studies. Optical rotatory dispersion studie...