Process control charts are proven techniques for improving quality. Specifying the control limits is the most important step in designing a control chart. The presence of outliers may extremely affect the estimates of parameters using classical methods. Robust estimators which are not affected by outliers or the small departures from the model assumptions are applied in this paper to specify th...

Recommended by Narendra Kumar Govil We first obtain the relations of local univalency, convexity, and linear connectedness between analytic functions and their corresponding affine harmonic mappings. In addition, the paper deals with the regions of variability of values of affine harmonic and biharmonic mappings. The regions their boundaries are determined explicitly and the proofs rely on Schw...

Eubacterial and related single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) exhibit considerable variability in their quaternary association in spite of their having the same tertiary fold. The variability involves differences in the orientation of dimers in the tetrameric molecule (or of two-domain subunits in the dimeric molecule) and that of monomers in each dimer. The presence of an additional stra...

In this paper, the main idea is to compute the robust regression model, derived by experimentation, in order to achieve a model with minimum effects of outliers and fixed variation among different experimental runs. Both outliers and nonequality of residual variation can affect the response surface parameter estimation. The common way to estimate the regression model coefficients is the ordinar...

Andersen, K. F., Morris, L., Derksen, R. C., Madden, L. V., and Paul, P. A. 2014. Rainfastness of prothioconazole + tebuconazole for Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol management in soft red winter wheat. Plant Dis. 98:1398-1406. Fungicides are most warranted for control of Fusarium head blight (FHB), a disease of wheat caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum, when wet, rainy co...

Abstract Melatonin ( N -acetyl-5-methoxytriptamine) is a novel plant regulatory molecule currently under study. Its role as biostimulator and protector against abiotic biotic stressors, through the regulation of redox network change in expression many elements primary secondary metabolism, great interest. The possible protective effect melatonin mungbean seedlings, previously primed seed treate...

Recent advances in analytical methods and exploration of regional diversity patterns in greater depth than simple whole-fauna patterns may change our understanding of the determinants of latitudinal gradients in species richness. Using a comprehensive database on the geographical distributions of the large fauna of endemic shorefishes from the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP), we delineated latit...

Introduction Drugs and other xenobiotics have effects that may vary greatly among individuals. Such variability in effect may be due to variability in either pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics. The major determinant of variability in pharmacokinetics is drug metabolism, which in many cases is due to polymorphisms in the genes for drug-metabolizing enzymes (1). This often results in subpopulat...