An increasing number of quantitative reviews of epidemiological data includes a doseresponse analysis. Aims of this paper are to describe the main aspects of the methodology and to illustrate the novel R package dosresmeta developed for multivariate dose-response meta-analysis of summarized data. Specific topics covered are reconstructing covariances of correlated outcomes; pooling of study-spe...

Commuting transfer matrices of U q (X (1) r) vertex models obey the functional relations which can be viewed as an X r type Toda field equation on discrete space time. Based on analytic Bethe ansatz we present, for X r = D r , a new expression of its solution in terms of determinants and Pfaffians.

The mineralogical composition of asteroids can be constrained using visible and near-IR (VNIR) spectroscopy. The most prominent spectral features observed over this wavelength range are due to olivine and pyroxene, the two most abundant minerals in both chondritic and achondritic meteorites. The observed ratio of these two minerals is highly dependent on the amount of heating that an asteroid h...