We reanalyse the measurements of parallax, proper motion, and line-of-sight velocity for 18 masers in high mass star-forming regions presented by Reid et al. (2009). We use a likelihood analysis to investigate the distance of the Sun from the Galactic centre, R0, the rotational speed of the local standard of rest, v0, and the peculiar velocity of the Sun, v⊙, for various models of the rotation ...

and Applied Analysis 3 A finite subset of j consecutive positive integers starting with 1 is denoted by j : {1, 2, . . . , j}. The set R−h : −h, 0 ∪ R0 will be used to define the solution of functional differential equations on R0 including its initial condition in −h, 0 . C i R0 ,Rm0 is the set of m-vector real functions of class C i and definition domain R0 and PC i R0 ,Rm0 is the set of m-ve...

A disease transmission model of SEIRS type with distributed delays in latent and temporary immune periods is discussed. With general/particular probability distributions in both of these periods, we address the threshold property of the basic reproduction number R0 and the dynamical properties of the disease-free/endemic equilibrium points present in the model. More specifically, we 1. show the...

BACKGROUND Emergence of infectious diseases like influenza pandemic (H1N1) 2009 has become great concern, which posed new challenges to the health authorities worldwide. To control these diseases various studies have been developed in the field of mathematical modelling, which is useful tool for understanding the epidemiological dynamics and their dependence on social mixing patterns. METHOD ...

The main aim of this paper is to prove that for the boundedness of the maximal operator σ ∗ from the Hardy space Hp ( I ) to the space Lp ( I ) the assumption p > max {1/ (α + 1) , 1/ (β + 1)} is essential. We denote the set of non-negative integers by N. For a set X 6= ∅ let X be its Cartesian product X×X taken with itself. By a dyadic interval in I := [0, 1) we mean one of the form [ l2−k, (l...

The basic reproductive number, R0, provides a foundation for evaluating how various factors affect the incidence of infectious diseases. Recently, it has been suggested that, particularly for vector-transmitted diseases, R0 should be modified to account for the effects of finite host population within a single disease transmission generation. Here, we use a transmission factor approach to calcu...

The basic reproduction number, R0, of an infectious agent is a key factor determining the rate of spread and the proportion of the host population affected. We formulate a general mathematical framework to describe the transmission dynamics of long incubation period diseases with complex pathogenesis. This is used to derive expressions for R0 of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in British...

We study the statistical inference from data on transmission obtained from one-to-one experiments, and compare two algorithms by which the reproduction ratio can be quantified. The first algorithm, the transient state (TS) algorithm, takes the time course of the epidemic into account. The second algorithm, the final size (FS) algorithm, does not take time into account but is based on the assump...