Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the principal type of dementia among the elderly. In AD patients, there is a decreased level of acetylcholine (ACh) in some brain regions, such as the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, correlated critically to learning and memory (Davies & Maloney, 1976). Based on the cholinergic hypothesis that cognitive impairments in AD patients result from a defect in the choliner...

At Statistics Canada, variance estimation for complex surveys is mainly carried out using replication methods. The two replication methods which have been used in the last decade are the delete-one Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) jackknife and, more recently, the bootstrap. As Valliant (2007) rightly points out there are several variants of the bootstrap introduced by Efron (1979) in the i.i.d. cas...

This paper investigates spatial panel data models with a space-time …lter in disturbances. We consider their estimation by both …xed e¤ects and random e¤ects speci…cations. With a between equation properly de…ned, the di¤erence of the random vs. …xed e¤ects models can be highlighted. We show that the random e¤ects estimate is a pooling of the within and between estimates. A Hausman type speci…c...

Indian industry, which is witnessing an extraordinary rate of change. A quick look at the latest statistics from the Indian industry helps us understand this point better. Today, there is widespread recognition, both at home and abroad, that India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world (Lahiri, 2005). For the first time in history, India’s economic prowess became an issue in the U...

Poole (QJE, 1970) using a stochastic IS-LM model presented the …rst formal treatment of the classic question: how should a monetary authority decide whether to use the money stock or the interest rate as the policy instrument. We update the seminal work of Poole in a microfounded ‡exible-price general equilibrium model of money using explicit welfare criteria. Speci…cally, we study the optimal ...

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Let f be a nonconstant meromorphic function in the complex plane C. We shall use the standard notations in Nevanlinna’s value distribution theory of meromorphic functions such as T r, f , N r, f , and m r, f see, e.g., 1, 2 . The notation S r, f is defined to be any quantity satisfying S r, f o T r, f as r → ∞ possibly outside a set of E of finite linear measure. Let F be a family of meromorphi...

This paper proposes a novel semantic analysis of the quantificational variability data discovered by Berman (1991). We suggest that the adverb of quantification in those data quantifies over semantic questions. Its domain is a division of the original question into subquestions, where a legitimate division into subquestions is one in which each member contributes towards the answer to the origi...

In this chapter, I present the outlines of a formal theory of word accent.1 The theory is nonmetrical in that the account of primary accent location is not based on iterative foot structure. The theory separates the representations of primary and rhythmic accents, the idea being that the latter are accounted for ‘‘with reference to’’ the primary accent location. This means that rhythmic structu...