This study was designed to examine the effect of the fragile X premutation (pM) on cognitive function and behavior. Participants included 14 children (7 males, 7 females) with the fragile X pM and 14 children without the fragile X pM (and without the fragile X full mutation [fM]), each of whom was matched by age and gender with one of the participants from the pM group. The children ranged in a...

BACKGROUND Chile is in the advanced stage of demographic transition with a low natural growth and a progressively aging population. AIM To analyze births by range of maternal age and to establish if population aging is expressed in the women's fertile age range. MATERIAL AND METHODS Trend analysis of births and age-specific birth rates in the period 1990-2004, in the Chilean women populatio...

in more recent years, it has become increasingly recognized that r&d; (research and development) is a key driver of economic growth, a source of innovation and change, and as such stimulates improvements in productivity and economic competitiveness. it is closely associated with knowledge and flexibility, two factors that have gained new significance as a source of competitiveness in an increas...

Notes for the course by Bas Kleijn, Aad van der Vaart, Harry van Zanten (Text partly extracted from a forthcoming book by S. Ghosal and A. van der Vaart) version 4-12-2012 UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1 Introduction Why adopt the nonparametric Bayesian approach for inference? The answer lies in the simultaneous preference for nonparametric modeling and desire to follow a Bayesian procedure. Nonparametric...

in many statistical process control applications, the quality of a process is characterized by a profile. a profile is a function in terms of one or more explanatory variables. in profile monitoring, one is interested to monitor the performance of a process or product using this functional relationship. control charts for monitoring nonparametric profiles are useful when the relationship is too...