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Abstract The mean residual life function (mrlf) of a subject is defined as the average residual lifetime of the subject given that the subject has survived up to a given time point. A smooth nonparametric estimator of the mrlf is proposed using a scale mixtures of the empirical estimate of the mrlf. Asymptotic properties are established. The performances of the proposed estimator are studied ba...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The clinical evaluation of cognition in non-communicative severely brain-damaged patients is inherently difficult. In addition to novel behavioural 'consciousness-scales', the role of para-clinical markers of consciousness, such as event related potentials and functional neuroimaging is reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS New behavioural scales for vegetative and minimally conscious p...

INTRODUCTION For occipital cortex strokes resulting in vision disorders, questions about the viability of residual visual cortex remain. CLINICAL PICTURE In a patient with a one-year-old, left, complete, homonymous hemianopia due to a right, posterior cerebral artery, ischaemic infarct, we assessed the visual cortex with fMRI retinotopic mapping prior to starting vision restoration therapy. ...

In addition to the distribution function, the mean residual life (MRL) function is the other important function which can be used to characterize a lifetime in survival analysis and reliability. For inference on the MRL function, some procedures have been proposed in the literature. However, the coverage accuracy of such procedures may be low when the sample size is small. In this article, an e...