A child's growth achievement is a useful indicator of his well-being and nutritional status. This can easily be assessed by comparing his growth parameters such as weight, length and head ci rcumference, with norms or standards derived from a relatively healthy population of genetically similar children. Such standards are essential to professionals working with children, for example paediatric...

W E appreciate the comments by Mendes de Leon (2007) regarding the challenges involved in using multilevel models to analyze aging effects in samples of older adults that combine multiple birth cohorts. The core argument in the latter portion of his commentary focuses on the advantages of using continuous, rather than categorical, outcome variables when analyzing aging-related change. We are in...

We compute the universal deformations of cuspidal representations π of GL2(F ) over Fl, where F is a local field of residue characteristic p and l is an odd prime different from p. When π is supercuspidal there is an irreducible, two dimensional representation ρ of GF that corresponds to π via the mod l local Langlands correspondence of [Vi2]; we show that there is a natural isomorphism between...

BACKGROUND Falls occur not only in the forward direction, but also to the side and backward. The purpose of this study was to develop a portable and valid tool to measure limits of stability in the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions. METHODS Two hundred fifty-four community-dwelling older persons were administered the Berg Balance Test (BBT), the Timed Up & Go Test (TUG), and th...

Let π be a simple supercuspidal representation of the split even special orthogonal group. We compute Rankin-Selberg γ-factors for rank 1-twists by quadratic tamely ramified characters F*. Our results determine certain 1-dimensional summands Langlands parameter. Assuming an expected analogue work Blondel, Henniart, and Stevens, these completely parameter π.