To conduct meaningful, epidemiologic research on racial-ethnic health disparities, racial-ethnic samples must be rendered equivalent on other social status and contextual variables via statistical controls of those extraneous factors. The racial-ethnic groups must also be equally familiar with and have similar responses to the methods and measures used to collect health data, must have equal op...

A method is presented to easily derive von Neumann stability conditions for a wide variety of time discretization schemes for the convection-di usion equation. Spatial discretization is by the -scheme or the fourth order central scheme. The use of the method is illustrated by application to multistep, Runge-Kutta and implicit-explicit methods, such as are in current use for ow computations, and...

(1) is an example of an adjectival comparative. In it, the adjective important is flanked by more and a comparative clause headed by than. This article is a survey of recent ideas about the interpretation of comparatives, including (i) the underlying semantics based on the idea of a threshold; (ii) the interpretation of comparative clauses that include quantifiers (brighter than on many other d...

We describe the derivation of order conditions, without restrictions on stage order, for general linear methods for ordinary differential equations. This derivation is based on the extension of Albrecht approach proposed in the context of Runge-Kutta and composite and linear cyclic methods. This approach was generalized by Jackiewicz and Tracogna to two-step Runge-Kutta methods, by Jackiewicz a...

In the paper we discuss the transition from kinetic theory to macroscopic uid equations, where the macroscopic equations are deened as asymptotic limits of a kinetic equation. This relation can be used to derive computationally eecient domain decomposition schemes for the simulation of rareeed gas ows close to the continuum limit. Moreover, we present some basic ideas for the derivation of kine...

This work generalizes the additively partitioned Runge-Kutta methods by allowing for different stage values as arguments of different components of the right hand side. An order conditions theory is developed for the new family of generalized additive methods, and stability and monotonicity investigations are carried out. The paper discusses the construction and properties of implicit-explicit ...

Some biomechanical models are represented by nonlinear first order ordinary differential equations. The objective of this study is to determine the velocity of a biomechanical model that involves a cyclist coasting downhill. Two methods namely; the modified explicit and diagonally implicit fifth–order Runge–Kutta methods are utilised. The performance of the two methods is compared with the exac...

This article presents how various Formal Methods have been involved, rst on their own, then coupled, in the diierent steps of the industrial development of an embedded software for an electricity meter. Synchronized Transition Systems have been used to conceive and implement some Rendezvous mechanisms for the distributed kernel , and the physical link protocol supporting communication between p...