Abstract: This work presents Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method available in Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify and classify the Penang Island according to the grade of present or potential danger of land failure happening. Landslide susceptibility zonation map has been generated by considering seven factors. Sensitivity analysis was performed in detail by varying the contri...

In simple static linear simultaneous equation models the empirical distributions of IV and OLS are examined under alternative sampling schemes and compared with their first-order asymptotic approximations. We demonstrate that the limiting distribution of consistent IV is not affected by conditioning on exogenous regressors, whereas that of inconsistent OLS is. The OLS asymptotic and simulated a...

PURPOSE To map health outcome related variables from a national register, not part of any validated instrument, with EQ-5D weights among stroke patients. METHODS We used two cross-sectional data sets including patient characteristics, outcome variables and EQ-5D weights from the national Swedish stroke register. Three regression techniques were used on the estimation set (n=272): ordinary lea...

Hypoxia-ischemia (H/I) in the premature infant leads to white matter injury termed periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), the leading cause of subsequent neurological deficits. Glutamatergic excitotoxicity in white matter oligodendrocytes (OLs) mediated by cell surface glutamate receptors (GluRs) of the AMPA subtype has been demonstrated as one factor in this injury. Recently, it has been shown th...

For a binary outcome Y, generated by simple threshold crossing model with single exogenous normally distributed explanatory variable X, the OLS estimator of coefficient on X in linear probability is consistent average partial effect X. Even this very setting, we show that when allowing for to be endogenously determined, 2SLS estimator, using instrumental Z, does not identify same causal paramet...

This paper presents a hyperbolic trigonometric (HT) transformation procedure for empirically estimating a cumulative probability distribution function (cdf), from which the probability density function (pdf) can be obtained by differentiation. Maximum likelihood (ML) is the appropriate estimation technique, but a particularly appealing feature of the HT transformation as opposed to other zero-o...

MicroRNAs (miRs) regulate diverse molecular and cellular processes including oligodendrocyte (OL) precursor cell (OPC) proliferation and differentiation in rodents. However, the role of miRs in human OPCs is poorly understood. To identify miRs that may regulate these processes in humans, we isolated OL lineage cells from human white matter and analyzed their miR profile. Using endpoint RT-PCR a...

Oligodendrocytes (OLs) are in many ways implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. However, very little is currently known about possible OL cell cycle disturbances in schizophrenia, a phenomenon which has been described for the birth of new hippocampal neurons in schizophrenics. When morphometrically analyzing the density of prohibitinexpressing OLs in diff erent prefrontal white matt...