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OBJECTIVE This study aims to present normative data for Fuld Object Memory Evaluation test stratified by sex, gender, age, and education for the Brazilian elderly population. METHOD We evaluated 2.132 healthy elderly both genders, with a mean age of 70.30 years (± 7.28) from two community-based samples in Brazil drawn from different economic areas who were screened with cognitive and function...

When sample sizes are small, it becomes challenging for an asymptotic test requiring diverging to maintain accurate Type I error rate. In this paper, we consider one-sample, two-sample and ANOVA tests mean vectors when data high-dimensional but very small. We establish t-distributions of the proposed U-statistics, which only require dimensionality diverge be fixed no less than 3. The rates a wi...

Let 1 ≤ s < t, N ≥ 1 be integers and a complex electronic circuit of size t is said to be an s-active, s ≪ t, and can work as a system block if not more than s elements of the circuit are defective. Otherwise, the circuit is said to be an s-defective and should be replaced by a similar s-active circuit. Suppose that there exists a possibility to run N non-adaptive group tests to check the s-act...

The design and implementation of Doppler Global Velocimetry (DGV) for testing in the Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel is presented. The discussion begins by outlining the characteristics of the tunnel and the t e s t e n v i r o nmen t , w i t h p o t e n t i a l p r o b l em a r e a s h i g h l i g h t e d . Modifications to the optical system design to implement solutions for these problems a...