SUMMARY Holt Oram Syndrome consisting of upper limb defcts, cardiac anomalies and narrow shoulder, was first described by Holt and Oram in 1960. The inheritance pattern is autosomal dominant and most commonly encoutered cardiac anomalies being ASD, although all variaties of C.H.D are reported. Upper limb anomalies are not specific, although scaphoid bone deformity is almost characteristic in t...

This paper mainly forecasts the daily closing price of stock markets. We propose a two-stage technique that combines the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) with nonparametric methods of local linear quantile (LLQ). We use the proposed technique, EMD-LLQ, to forecast two stock index time series. Detailed experiments are implemented for the proposed method, in which EMD-LPQ, EMD, and Holt-Winter ...

We present an approach to improve forecast accuracy by simultaneously forecasting a group of products that exhibit similar seasonal demand patterns. Better seasonality estimates can be made by using information on all products in a group, and using these improved estimates when forecasting at the individual product level. This approach is called the group seasonal indices (GSI) approach, and is...

We will be examining the Sigmoid Beverton-Holt difference equation. It has been shown that when the Sigmoid Beverton-Holt has a p-periodically-varying growth rate, there exists a p-periodic globally asymptotically stable solution {xn}. In this paper we extend this result to include a more general class of Sigmoid Beverton-Holt functions. Furthermore, we consider the case in which the variables ...

In 1952, Holt and Withers (1) described esterase-rich intracellular bodies in rat kidney and liver. In kidney, these bodies were spherical and were present chiefly in the proximal convoluted tubules. In liver, they appeared to be more irregular and were aligned along the bile canaliculi. The indoxyl method used for the demonstration of this enzyme by Holt (2) has recently been further improved ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has developed SPEER software that applies the Fellegi-Holt editing method to economic establishment surveys under ratio edit and a limited form of balancing. It is known that more than 99% of economic data only require these basic forms of edits. If implicit edits are available, then Fellegi-Holt methods have the advantage that they determine the minimal number of fields ...