BACKGROUND Whilst acute stress paradigms in adults make use of adult panel members, similar paradigms modified for child participants have not manipulated the panel. Most work has utilised an audience of adult confederates, regardless of the age of the population being tested. The aim of this study was to trial a social stress test for children that provided a meaningful environment using age-m...

The question raised by the panel is how much testing should be included in a VLSI Design course and what makes a “well-rounded” electrical and computer engineering graduate. The fact that we had to have a National Science Foundation workshop and now an ITC panel to discuss how to incorporate test in a design course shows that the disconnect between design and test happens not only in industry b...

A wide column test of a composite isogrid panel subjected to quasi-static, axial compression is modeled with a hybrid-static dynamic computational method. The data from the test panel exhibited discontinuous responses in the compressive load for slowly increased end-shortening. The computational model was developed to corroborate these discontinuities with the phenomenon of mode jumping. Mode j...

This paper considers the problem of comparing two processes with panel data. A nonparametric test is proposed for detecting a monotone change in the link between the two process distributions. The test statistic is of CUSUM type, based on the empirical distribution functions. The asymptotic distribution of the proposed statistic is derived and its finite sample property is examined by bootstrap...

CONTEXT Evolution of polymerase chain reaction testing for infectious pathogens has occurred concurrent with a focus on value-based medicine. OBJECTIVE To determine if implementation of the FilmArray rapid respiratory panel (BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, Utah) (hereafter RRP), with a shorter time to the test result and expanded panel, results in different outcomes for children admitted...

The Hausman test statistic in panel data models is asymptotically pivotal under the null hypothesis. It could therefore be refined using the bootstrap resampling technique. Edgeworth expansion shows that coverage of a bootstrap version of the Hausman test is second-order correct. The asymptotic vis-à-vis the bootstrap version of Hausman test are compared by Monte Carlo simulations. Results show...

BACKGROUND An ovarian cancer marker panel including leptin, prolactin, osteopontin, insulin-like growth factor II (IGFII), macrophage migration inhibitory factor and CA125 was tested for multiplex marker measurement. Multiplex was compared to single assayed tumour markers: CA125, TPS, thymidine kinase, monototal and HE4. PATIENTS AND METHODS The serum marker levels in ovarian cancer patients ...

The paper proposes a new test of endogenous vs. exogenous growth theories based on the Granger-causality methodology and applies it to a panel of 20 OECD countries. The test yields divergent evidence with respect to physical and human capital. For physical capital, the test results favor Solow-type exogenous growth theory over AK-type endogenous growth models. On the other hand, the test result...

The International Test Conference is becoming a chip-centric event. This is what you might expect to be told. And if you ask which conference a board test engineer should attend in order to get information about innovation in the field of board test, the answer may be: there are several exhibitions dealing with electronic manufacturing, there you can find what you are looking for. Unfortunately...

We propose a nonlinear heterogeneous panel unit root test for testing the null hypothesis of unit-root processes against the alternative that allows a proportion of units to be generated by globally stationary ESTAR processes and a remaining non-zero proportion to be generated by unit root processes. The proposed test is simple to apply and accommodates cross section dependence. Monte Carlo sim...