Abstract Background Thyroid function tests (TFT) which usually include thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), total triiodothyronine (TT3), and free thyroxine (FT4) are widely applied in clinical practice for screening, diagnosis monitoring of disease. We evaluated analytical performance TSH, TT3, FT4 using DxI800 (Beckman Coulter, USA) including comparison to Alinity I (Abbott, USA). Methods Preci...

An exchange economy is modeled as a strategic market game with all pairwise markets available. Existence of noncooperative equilibria is proved. It is shown that if resources are distributed in a skewed manner, in equilibrium prices may not satisfy the no arbitrage condition. One round of trade even with all goods serving as money is not sufficient to provide enough liquidity for efftcient trad...

∗Department of Economics, Boston University, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA, CEMA, Central University of Finance and Economics, and AFR, Zhejiang University, China. Email: [email protected]. Tel: (617) 353 6675. †Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Email: [email protected]. Tel: (+852) 2358 7612. ‡Antai College of Economics and ...

Karolinska Institutet, Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Stockholm, Sweden Karolinska Institutet, 23 300, 141 83 Huddinge-Sweden Seattle University, College of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, P.O. Box 222000, Seattle, WA 98122-1090, USA Högsätra servicehus, Högsätravägen 4c,Lidingö, StockholmSweden University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing, Alberta, Canada U...

Received July 6, 1 979; accepted after revision October 30, 1979. 1Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, New England Medical Center Hospital, 1 71 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 021 1 1. Address reprint requests to P. C. Kahn. 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New England Medical Center Hospital, 1 7i Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. AJR 134:588-589, March 198...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C11H10N4O3, contains two independent mol-ecules in which the benzene rings make dihedral angles of 38.3 (2) and 87.1 (2)° with respect to the triazole rings. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are linked by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming chains along [021]. Further, weak C-O⋯π [3.865 (5) Å, 83.8 (3)°] and N-O⋯π [3.275 (5) and 3.240 (6) Å, 141.8 (4) and 102....

Recent evidence has shown possible scaling and self-similarity in high frequency financial time series. This paper demonstrates that many of these graphical scaling results could have been generated by a simple stochastic volatility model. This casts doubt on the power of these tests to discern between true scaling and simple highly dependent stochastic processes. JEL Classification: C32, G12 ∗...

Psychiatry Division, University of Chieti, Italy; 'Department of Parasitology, Veterinary School, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece; 2Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 021 JJ; 'Laboratory of Parasitology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens ,and; 42 <1 Department of Paediatrics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki...