Methods A retrospective cohort study at two Canadian centres was performed. The longitudinal trajectories of AJC were described using latent growth curve modeling (GCM). Latent GCM is a novel technique that aims to classify individuals into statistically distinct groups based on individual response patterns so that individuals within a group are more similar than individuals between groups. The...

Radiative heating associated with the distribution of water vapor and clouds in the atmosphere is an important driver of both local-scale and large-scale circulations in the tropics. One of the difficulties in producing accurate cloud and radiative heating rate profiles with a general circulation model (GCM) is the sub-grid scale nature of cloud processes and their interaction with radiation. T...

Smith and Minda (1998, 2002) argued that the response scaling parameter y in the exemplar-based generalized context model (GCM) makes the model unnecessarily complex and allows it to mimic the behavior of a prototype model. We evaluated this criticism in two ways. First, we estimated the complexity of the GCM with and without the yparameter and also compared its complexity to that of a prototyp...

We analyse the response of the TIE-GCM computer model of the upper atmosphere to atmospheric tides at its lower boundary and to variations of night-time ionization rates. TIE-GCM is an expensive code, and we choose to use our thirty evaluations of the model to construct an emulator, and then use the emulator for the analysis. TIE-GCM has some non-standard features, namely a periodic input, and ...

Different models of categorization are often treated as competing accounts, but specific models are often used to understand individual differences, by estimating individual-level parameters. We develop an approach to understanding categorization that allows for individual differences both between and within models, using two prominent categorization models that make different theoretical assum...

Stembridge characterized regular crystals associated with a simply-laced generalized Cartan matrix (GCM) in terms of local graph-theoretic quantities. We give similar axiomatization for $B_{2}$ and thus finite GCM except $G_{2}$ an affine $A^{(1)}_{1},G^{(1)}_{2},A^{(2)}_{2},D^{(3)}_{4}$.

flood is one of the most calamitous natural disasters that causes extensive property and life damages across theworld. it however, could be a blessing due to its special natural water resources recharging value. by simulating themagnitude of probable floods considering the anthropogenic and natural effects and implementing contingency plans,their damages could be reduced. in this paper, the gen...

NR5A1 is essential for the development and for the function of steroid producing glands of the reproductive system. Moreover, its misregulation is associated with endometriosis, which is the first cause of infertility in women. Hr39, the Drosophila ortholog of NR5A1, is expressed and required in the secretory cells of the spermatheca, the female exocrine gland that ensures fertility by secretin...

In this paper we address the problem of the blind reconstruction of binary sequences transmitted by P sources, sharing simultaneously the same frequency channel. This is the situation in Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) systems, where an array receiver is used to discriminate the spatial signatures of the sources. We exploit the geometry induced by the nite nature of the sources alphabet i...