OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of maintenance therapy with aripiprazole once-monthly 400mg on personal and social functioning. METHODS Data were analyzed from 2 randomized, double-blind trials of patients with schizophrenia requiring chronic antipsychotic treatment. One study was a 52-week trial of aripiprazole once-monthly 400mg versus placebo; the other was a 38-week trial of aripiprazole ...

In this example we have 11 successes and 9 failures. We have to wait until trial 9 to have a …rst run of lenght 2, this isN(1) = 9. If we allow for overlapping, in the example the next runs of size 2 are completed at trial numbers 12; 13 and 16. Here we are interested in N(r) where for each r 1, N(r) denotes the number of trials until we observe the r th run of size 2 for the …rst time and wher...

A nonlinear prediction method, developed based on the ideas gained from deterministic chaos theory, is employed: (a) to predict monthly runoff; and (b) to detect the possible presence of chaos in runoff dynamics. The method first reconstructs the single-dimensional (or variable) runoff series in a multi-dimensional phase space to represent its dynamics, and then uses a local polynomial approach...

This paper provides empirical evidence that households follow budgeting heuristics which can generate consumption patterns that are not easily explained by standard models. Specifically, I show that households follow a heuristic in which budgets are constructed based on typical monthly income while ignoring the fact that true income may vary from month to month. To do so, I first formalize and ...

One of the main tasks to analyze and design a mining system is predicting the behavior exhibited by prices in the future. In this paper, the applications of different prediction methods are evaluated in econometrics and financial management fields, such as ARIMA, TGARCH, and stochastic differential equations, for the time-series of monthly copper prices. Moreover, the performance of these metho...

The newly developed erythropoiesis agent darbepoetin alpha (DA) allows for once-monthly dosing in the treatment of anemia in patients on dialysis. This dosing schedule has prompted some studies to examine the efficacy of DA in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). In the present study, we assessed whether intravenous (IV) administration of DA once monthly is effective fo...