We study eective inference strategies for monotone trend functions in the presence of short range and long range dependence. Isotonic regression, which does not require specication of tuning parameters, is invoked to estimate the monotone trend. The problem of constructing reliable condence intervals for the trend function is addressed via the use of appropriate discrepancy statistics which ari...

ExCAPE proposes a novel approach to software design—computer augmented program engineering, in which a programmer and an automated program-synthesis tool collaborate to generate software that meets its specification. A programmer expresses her insights about the design using synthesis artifacts of different kinds such as programs that may contain ambiguities, declarative specifications of high-...

One of the long-term goals of this project is to analyze and propose energy-efficient communication techniques for underwater acoustic sensor networks. These techniques aim at consuming as less energy as possible as well as guaranteeing a minimum quality of service. In order to do so, we assume and validate some statistics of the underwater acoustic channels and derive stochastic optimal transm...

During the year 2009/2010 I was principally working on 3 different problems in collaboration with 4 different people, 3 of them working in Pisa and one in Parma. Those works led to 3 scientific papers and 1 review paper submitted during the year 2009/2010. The first work is a collaboration with Pablo Àlvarez-Caudevilla, postdoc at the center De Giorgi. We studied a problem in PDEs, about the as...

Parts III and IV deal with the actions of growth hormone in fat, nitrogen, and carbohydrate metabolism. The actions of pancreatic and adrenal hormones in these systems are related to and contrasted with those of growth hormone, resulting in a wide coverage of hormonal influences on metabolism. The work is at a level where the fundamental mechanisms of action can be discussed in terms of individ...

Serum aminoglutethimide (AG) and N-acetylaminoglutethimide (NAG) concentrations were measured by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) in 24 postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer receiving increasing doses of oral AG. Patients received 62.5mg b.d., 125mg b.d., 250mg b.d., and 500mg b.d. of AG alone, and 500mg b.d. of AG combined with hydrocortisone (HC) 20mg b.d. Dose was increa...