The Extended Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (extended EWMA) control chart is one of the charts and can be used to quickly detect a small shift. performance evaluated with average run length (ARL). Due deriving explicit formulas for ARL on two-sided extended EWMA trend autoregressive or AR(p) model has not been reported previously. aim this study derive as well AR(1) AR(2) models exponent...

Several left-right parity violating asymmetries in lepton-lepton scattering in fixed target and collider experiments are considered as signals for doubly charged vector bosons (bileptons). ∗Presented by M. C. Rodriguez at VIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax, México, November 20–29, 1998. †e-mail: [email protected] ‡e-mail: [email protected] §e-mails: mcr@axp...

The Hy-V project will conduct the first-ever mode-transition flight-test for a dual-mode hypersonic scramjet, which will occur at approximately 90,000 feet onboard a sounding rocket. At altitude, atmospheric conditions and inlet flow speed will match the flow conditions simulated in the UVA Aerospace Research Laboratory (ARL) hypersonic wind tunnel. Geometric similarity between the wind tunnel ...

Over time, the epidemiologic and demographic characteristics of AIDS have changed in the United States, while the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has changed the natural history of the disease. The goal of the study was to ascertain any changes in the epidemiologic, immunologic, pathologic, or clinical characteristics of AIDS-related lymphoma (ARL) over the course of the AIDS epidem...

Risk-adjusted CUSUM schemes are designed to monitor the number of adverse outcomes following a medical procedure. An approximation of the average run length (ARL), which is the usual performance measure for a risk-adjusted CUSUM, may be found using its Markov property. We compare two methods of computing transition probability matrices where the risk model classifies patient populations into di...

The objective of this research is to select the appropriate control charts for detecting a shift in the autocorrelated observations. The autocorrelated processes were characterized using AR (1) and IMA (1, 1) for stationary and non-stationary processes respectively. A process model was simulated to achieve the response, the average run length (ARL). The empirical analysis was conducted to quant...

Despite highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), AIDS related lymphoma (ARL) occurs at a significantly higher rate in patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) than in the general population. HIV-infected macrophages are a known viral reservoir and have been shown to have lymphomagenic potential in SCID mice; therefore, there is an interest in determining if a viral com...

ATP is thought to be released to the extracellular compartment by neurons and astrocytes during neural activation. We examined whether ATP exerts its effect of promoting pial arteriolar dilation (PAD) directly or upon conversion (via ecto-nucleotidase action) to AMP and adenosine. Blockade of extracellular direct ATP to AMP conversion, with ARL-67156, significantly reduced sciatic nerve stimula...

The small ciliary G protein Arl13b is required for cilium biogenesis and sonic hedgehog signaling and is mutated in patients with Joubert syndrome (JS). In this study, using Caenorhabditis elegans and mammalian cell culture systems, we investigated the poorly understood ciliary and molecular basis of Arl13b function. First, we show that Arl13b/ARL-13 localization is frequently restricted to a p...

Under estimated in-control parameters, the Phase II control chart performance is expected to vary among practitioners due to the use of different Phase I data sets. Accordingly, the typical measure of Phase II control chart performance, the average run length (ARL), becomes a random variable. In the literature, control charts with estimated parameters were assessed and the appropriate amounts o...