Resultant center-of-pressure (CP) displacements result along mediolateral (ML) and anteroposterior (AP) axes from strategies mobilizing hips and ankles, respectively, and thus, should be largely influenced by the angles between the feet. To assess this relation and the effects of foot position on postural performance, 9 healthy young adults were tested. The main results, as the forefeet are spr...

We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite (Tauber 2004). These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even non-symmetric and polarised beam patterns, derive the time ordered data streams measured by the detectors depending on the chosen satellite-sc...

MOTIVATION mRNA expression data obtained from high-throughput DNA microarrays exhibit strong departures from homogeneity of variances. Often a complex relationship between mean expression value and variance is seen. Variance stabilization of such data is crucial for many types of statistical analyses, while regularization of variances (pooling of information) can greatly improve overall accurac...

For the multisensor system with uncertain noise variances, using the minimax robust estimation principle, the local and weighted measurement fusion robust time-varying Kalman predictors are presented based on the worst-case conservative system with the conservative upper bound of noise variances. The actual prediction error variances are guaranteed to have a minimal upper bound for all admissib...

The implied variances of 167 firms are examined over the period 1991 through 1995. The traditional market model of returns is shown to be a good first order model for explaining the cross section of variances though firm specific variances appear to exhibit stronger covariance than the market model predicts. The existence of a positive bias over realized and forecast variances is documented. Th...

INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory and destructive joint disease characterized by overexpression of pro-inflammatory/pro-destructive genes and other activating genes (for example, proto-oncogenes) in the synovial membrane (SM). The gene expression in disease is often characterized by significant inter-individual variances via specific synchronization/desynchronizat...

The level of expression of an imprinted gene is dependent on the sex of the parent from which it was inherited. As a result, reciprocal heterozygotes in a population may have different mean phenotypes for quantitative traits. Using standard quantitative genetic methods for deriving breeding values, population variances, and covariances between relatives, we demonstrate that although these appro...

Three two-trait selection methods were analyzed for their effects on genetic variance and correlation by multivariate methods, two-locus methods and computer simulation. The two-trait selection methods studied were independent culling levels (ICL), index (IND) and extreme (EXT) selection. The effects of the selection methods on genetic variance and correlation were partitioned into permanent ef...

Sexual reproduction is generally believed to yield beneficial effects via the expansion of expressed genetic variation, which increases the efficiency of selection and the adaptive potential of a population. However, when nonadditive gene action is involved, sex can actually impede the adaptive progress of a population. If selection promotes coupling disequilibria between genes of similar effec...

Primary causes of heterosis are still unknown. Our goal was to investigate the extent and underlying genetic causes of heterosis for five biomass-related traits in Arabidopsis thaliana. We (i) investigated the relative contribution of dominance and epistatic effects to heterosis in the hybrid C24 x Col-0 by generation means analysis and estimates of variance components based on a triple testcro...