to the Nonlinear Benchmark Problem Panagiotis Tsiotras Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 Martin Corless and Mario A. Rotea School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1282 Abstract In this paper, we use the theory of L2 disturbance attenuation for linear (H1) and nonlinear systems to...

M e t h o d s Data sources: Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group’s Trials Register (March 2006); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (2005, issue 3); and MEDLINE, LILACS, and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (to November 2005). Study selection and assessment: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated any antihypertensive drug (compared with placebo or no antihypertensive drug [cont...

A 50-year-old man with a negative medical history presented with aphasia and influenza-like symptoms over the course of 2 days. He was transferred to our university hospital because of unexplained encephalopathy with mutism and apraxia. Laboratory analysis revealed an elevated lactate dehydrogenase level of 1282 U/L (reference range, ,250 U/L) and a normal leukocyte count with normal differenti...

The aim of the present study was to establish Japanese reference material on the third molar development of Japanese juveniles for forensic application. Observations were performed on the orthopantomograms of 1282 Japanese patients between the ages of 14.0 and 24.0 years. Demirjian formation stages of the maxillary and mandibular third molars were recorded for chronological evaluation of wisdom...

Abstract Blocking is commonly used in randomized experiments to increase efficiency of estimation. A generalization blocking removes allocations with imbalance covariate distributions between treated and control units, then randomizes within the remaining set balance. This idea rerandomization was formalized by Morgan Rubin (Annals Statistics, 2012, 40, 1263–1282), who suggested using Mahalanob...

s, A591, 2007. 40. Zha Y, Le VT, Higami Y, Shimokawa I, Taguchi T, Razzaque MS. Life-long suppression of growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I activity in genetically altered rats could prevent age-related renal damage. Endocrinology 147: 5690–5698, 2006. 41. Zicha J, Kunes J. Ontogenetic aspects of hypertension development: analysis in the rat. Physiol Res 79: 1227–1282, 1999. 42. Zwaka ...

This paper uses two British birth cohorts, born in 1958 and 1970. There are substantial inter-cohort shifts in timing and context of becoming a parent and gender differences in timing. We use common childhood measures for the two cohorts, pool the two data sets and fit common models. We then ask whether explicit terms for gender or for cohort are required. These can be an unexplained gender or ...

Correlative studies of three oxalato-bridged polymers, obtained under hydrothermal conditions for the two isostructural compounds ⎨Rb(HC2O4)(H2C2O4)(H2O)2⎬∞, 1, ⎨H3O(HC2O4)(H2C2O4).2H2O⎬∞, 2, and by conventional synthetic method for ⎨Rb(HC2O4)⎬∞, 3, allowed the identification of H-bond patterns and structural dimensionality. Ferroïc domain structures are confirmed by electric measurements perfo...