BACKGROUND The validity and appropriateness of the metabolic syndrome as a cardiovascular risk factor are increasingly debated, partly because of the lack of a unifying underlying pathophysiological mechanism. Intrauterine growth retardation (low birth weight by sex and gestational length) has been associated with several cardiovascular problems and could be an important underlying risk factor ...

It has often been claimed in recent papers that one can find a degree d Sum-of-Squares proof if one exists via the Ellipsoid algorithm. In [16], Ryan O’Donnell notes this widely quoted claim is not necessarily true. He presents an example of a polynomial system with bounded coefficients that admits low-degree proofs of non-negativity, but these proofs necessarily involve numbers with an exponen...

The M/M/1 retrial queue with working vacations and negative customers is introduced. The arrival processes of positive customers and negative customers are Poisson. Upon the arrival of a positive customer, if the server is busy the customer would enter an orbit of infinite size and the orbital customers send their requests for service with a constant retrial rate. The single server takes an exp...

The duration of the holding time (dwell-time) in cellular telephony systems is a fraction of the total call duration due to the handoff mechanism. Some elements such as the mobility and cell shape and size will cause the dwell-time to have a probability distribution function different to that of the call duration, being the difference greater for higher mobility and smaller cell sizes (the limi...

The analysis of practical queueing problems benefits if realistic distributions can be used as parameters. Phase type (PH) distributions can approximate many distributions arising in practice, but their practical applicability has always been limited when they are described by a non-Markovian vector-matrix pair. In this case it is hard to check whether the non-Markovian vector-matrix pair defin...

All individuals of Cedrela lilloi (a valuable timber species of Meliaceae) > 4 cm DBH were sampled in three rectangular plots (c. 15 000 m each) in northwestern Argentina subtropical montane forests between 850 and 1350 m. Regeneration dynamics of C. lilloi was characterized by testing two hypotheses: (i) C. lilloi has a gap-phase regeneration mode, which implies a negative exponential size/age...

Consider the partition function of a directed polymer in dimension d ≥ 1 in an IID field. We assume that both tails of the negative and the positive part of the field are at least as light as exponential. It is a well-known fact that the free energy of the polymer is equal to a deterministic constant for almost every realization of the field and that the upper tail of the large deviations is ex...

A new four parameter extended Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (ECOMP) distribution which unifies the recently proposed COM-Poisson type negative binomial (COM-NB) distribution [Chakraborty, S. and Ong, S. H. (2014): A COM-type Generalization of the Negative Binomial Distribution, Accepted in Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods] and the generalized COM-Poisson (GCOMP) distribution [Imoto, T. ...

Abstract. In this work, it has been shown that the combined use of exponential operators and integral transforms provides a powerful tool to solve time fractional generalized KdV of order 2q+1 and certain fractional PDEs. It is shown that exponential operators are an effective method for solving certain fractional linear equations with non-constant coefficients. It may be concluded that the com...

Welch & Peers (1963) used a root-information prior to obtain posterior probabilities for a scalar parameter exponential model and showed that these Bayes probabilities had the confidence property to second order asymptotically. An important undercurrent of this indicates that the constant information reparameterization provides location model structure, for which the confidence property ...