the yield performance of 23 barley (hordeum vulgare l.) genotypes in sixteen test environments across a barley growing region of china was evaluated. the experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replicates, in two cropping seasons (2010-2011, in the south; 2012-2013, in the north). the gge biplot was applied to analyze the data obtained in the multi-environme...

mon in this country to warrant my bringing forward this series ; at least, during the past two years I have not seen or heard of more than a dozen cases having been under treatment in the two medical wards in the General Hospital. I have only once seen a pulsating and bulging tumour of the chest, and which I diagnosed as an aneurism; in a native of India, and that in the person of a Bengali pri...

In the light of Basel II, redesigning rating systems has been becoming an important issue for banks and other financial institutions. The available data base for this task typically contains only the accepted credit applicants and is thus censored. To evaluate existing and alternative rating systems, we would actually need the full data base of all past credit applicants. In this paper we discu...

Epidemiological studies have proved invaluable for identifying environmental risk factors and gene-environment interactions in the development of hypertension and other chronic diseases. Now, after several decades, the solid contributions of longitudinal and cross-national studies of random population samples are well established. The art and science of clinical trials have achieved a high leve...

The Community Reintegration of Injured Service Members (CRIS) measure consists of three scales measuring extent of, perceived limitations in, and satisfaction with community reintegration. Length of the CRIS may be a barrier to its widespread use. Using item response theory (IRT) and computer-adaptive test (CAT) methodologies, this study developed and evaluated a briefer community reintegration...

Campylobacter jejuni is now world-wide recognized as a zoonotic agent of bacterial diarrhoea in human beings 2 1 2 . Many domestic animals are intestinal carriers of these bacteria and could be a probable source of human in­ fection M, Dogsparticulary puppies, may be responsible for the transmission of Campylo­ bacter to human contacts. Campylobacter iso­ lation rates varies between 6-52.2% dep...

The Basel II Capital Accord requires banks to determine the capital charge to account for operational losses. Compound Poisson process with Lognormal losses is suggested for this purpose. The paper examines the impact of possibly censored and/or truncated data on the estimation of loss distributions. A procedure on consistent estimation of the severity and frequency distributions based on incom...