OBJECTIVE Compare effectiveness of maternal vitamin D3 supplementation with 6400 IU per day alone to maternal and infant supplementation with 400 IU per day. METHODS Exclusively lactating women living in Charleston, SC, or Rochester, NY, at 4 to 6 weeks postpartum were randomized to either 400, 2400, or 6400 IU vitamin D3/day for 6 months. Breastfeeding infants in 400 IU group received oral 4...

We study the effect of non-marketability on stock prices, and examine a unique repeated non-marketability constraint that lasts for less than one day in China. Chinese stock buyers face a one-day lockup and cannot sell their shares until the next trading day. Using the equity call warrants that are not subject to this trading constraint as a control, we provide evidence that non-marketability l...

Let’s try answering a simpler question first. Can you build the Web in one day? If you think of the Web in its whole dignity your answer is also negative. What if you think of it magnitudes smaller? You can build html pages in minutes. You can build a (simple) web shop in a few hours, including e.g. the application for web space. At the same time your kids are able to set up a WLAN, install a w...

There is a pressing need for a simple non-invasive test of exocrine pancreatic function for use in children. The pancreolauryl test has been modified by the addition of a second marker (mannitol) to achieve a single day test without the need for two timed urine collections. Six healthy subjects and nine patients with cystic fibrosis were studied. Fluorescein, fluorescein dilaurate, and mannitol...

This article is concerned with the simulation of one-day cricket matches. Given that only a finite number of outcomes can occur on each ball that is bowled, a discrete generator on a finite set is developed where the outcome probabilities are estimated from historical data involving one-day international cricket matches. The probabilities depend on the batsman, the bowler, the number of wickets...

State-of-the-art unit-selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthetic speech, at the price however of a costly and time-consuming voice creation process. We report here an extensive perceptual evaluation of several voice creation strategies, and conclude with a novel 1day process giving access to high quality TTS voices.

s of Talks Keynote Speeches Spatiotemporal dynamics in ecological systems Speaker: Alan Hastings Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis Abstract I will discuss some of the complexities involved in spatiotemporal dynamics in ecological systems, focusing on two aspects: the role of stochasticity in spatial spread and the dynamics of regime shi...