BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diffusion-weighted imaging can depict secondary signal change of the substantia nigra of patients with ipsilateral striatal infarction via a decrease in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). Clinical predictors of this phenomenon remain unclear. METHODS We assessed 98 stroke patients with acute ischemic lesions in the hemilateral basal ganglia, external capsule, or ...

Popular longitudinal models allow for prediction of growth trajectories in alternative ways. In latent class growth models (LCGMs), person-level covariates predict membership in discrete latent classes that each holistically define an entire trajectory of change (e.g., a high-stable class vs. late-onset class vs. moderate-desisting class). In random coefficient growth models (RCGMs, also known ...

Ti~leofThesis: Predicting Clinical Outcomes and Lost Work in Patients With Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders. Julie Kay Mil1er~ Doctor of Philosophy~ 1998 Thesis directed by: Michael Feuerstein, Ph.D. Professor Department ofMedical and Clinical Psychology Department ofPreventive Medicine and Biometrics Althougb past research bas suggested that a wide range ofcIemograpbic, occupational, phy...

Capitalizing upon Implicit Leadership Theories (ILTs) and Leader-member exchange (LMX), this research aims to explore the relationship between the congruence of employees’ ILTs and those traits of their managers and employees’ supportiveness, resistance and behavioral creativity for change. After distributing three questionnaires at three points among teachers, 296 participants completed all th...

The notion of a Hall matrix, associated with a possibly anisotropic conducting material in the presence of a small magnetic field, is introduced. Then, for any material having a microstructure we prove a general homogenization result satisfied by the Hall matrix in the framework of the Hconvergence of Murat-Tartar. Extending a result of Bergman, it is shown that the Hall matrix can be computed ...

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of testing for parameter change in random coefficient integer-valued autoregressive models. To overcome some size distortions of the existing estimate-based cumulative sum (CUSUM) test, we suggest estimating function-based test and residual-based CUSUM test. More specifically, we employ the estimating function of the conditional least squares estimator...

In this paper, we report the results of slight changes in the thermopower of long W, Mo, Zn, Cu, brass, and Ti wires, that resulted from changes in the wire's diameter or cross-sectional area. The samples used in the tests had a round shape with a diameter that ranged from tens of micron to 2 mm, which was much larger than the corresponding mean free paths of these materials. Nevertheless, a sm...

The molar partition coefficients of amphiphilic additives, e.g. local anesthetics, between the aqueous phase, the liquid crystal and the gel phase of lipid membrane can be determined based on a combination of phase transition data obtained at high and low concentrations of the lipid in aqueous phase. The data obtained at high lipid concentration allow to find the phase diagram lipid-additive in...

OBJECTIVE To analyze specimens dispersion in a population of Tarebia granifera and its relationship with the change of morphometric parameters. METHODS Two samplings by parcels including two types of substrata in opposite aggregation conditions were carried out, and the specimen abundance was compared between both samplings and substrata. The samples were stratified into classes according to ...