Jay P. Shah, Terry M. Phillips, Jerome V. Danoff, and Lynn H. Gerber Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health; Ultramicro Analytical Immunochemistry Resource, Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Department of Exercise Science, George Washington Univ...

Caitlin Elgarten, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Staci Arnold, Emory University Yimei Li, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Y. Vera Huang, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Jeffrey S. Gerber, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Wael Saber, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Richard Aplenc, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Brian T. Fisher, Children’s Hospit...

Assume that the surplus of an insurer follows a compound Poisson surplus process. When the surplus is below zero or the insurer is on deficit, the insurer could borrow money at a debit interest rate to pay claims. Meanwhile, the insurer will repay debts from her premium income. The negative surplus may return to a positive level if debts are reasonable. However, when the negative surplus is bel...

R. B. Gerber,* B. Brauer, S. K. Gregurick and G. M. Chaban Department of Physical Chemistry and Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 20215, USA NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA...

What is an authentic replication attempt and what is not? Gerber et al.’s paper (1) gives us the opportunity to reflect on this issue of longstanding concern to us. Gerber et al. (1) attempted to replicate our 2011 research (2), which showed that referring to voting with nouns rather than verbs in a pre-election survey (e.g., “How important is it to you to [be a voter/ vote]. . .”) could increa...

Introduction. Biologic, physioliogic and mechanical principles need to be considered and carefully coordinated in the establishment of the total denture design and occlusion. The aim of the authors is to share their experience with total denture treatment by patients, edentulous more than 6 years, using the method of intraoral registration of the position of the lower jaw by Gerber and arrangin...

Springer Preface These notes were developed whilst giving a graduate lecture course (Nachdiplomvor-lesung) in the fall of 2012 at the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM), ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The same course was given in the spring of 2013 at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico and, simultaneously by video-link, at the Instituto de Mathemáticas, UNAM in Me...