Ternary stress is a unique challenge to constraint-based metrical stress theories: how to model ternarity without ternary feet (Halle & Vergnaud 1987; Levin 1988; Dresher & Lahiri 1991; Rice 1992) or ternaryspecific constraints that prohibit adjacent feet (Kager 1994; Houghton 2008). While ternary rhythm exists, we propose that ternary feet do not, not even indirectly by means of recursion (pac...

A common index of disease incidence and mortality is the standardized mortality ratio (SMR). The SMR is a reliable measure of relative risk for large geographical regions such as countries or states, but may be unreliable for small areas such as counties. This paper reviews several empirical Bayes methods for producing smoothed estimates of the SMR as well as the conditional autoregressive proc...

By M. N. LAHIRI (From the Haffkine Institute, Bombay) . After the first proven case of leptospirosis Jn the city of Bombay was reported by the writer (1941a), six more cases have been detected which could be proved positive _ either by serological methods or by the isolation of leptospirse. It may be emphasized that these positive cases do in no way represent the true incidence of the disease i...

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We review the different block bootstrap methods for time series, and present them in a unified framework. We then revisit a recent result of Lahiri (1999b) comparing the different methods and give a corrected bound on their asymptotic relative efficiency; we also introduce a new notion of finite-sample “attainable” relative efficiency. Finally, based on the notion of spectral estimation via the...

Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) are complex glycolipids derived from ceramide. They consist of a ceramide lipid moiety (a fatty acid chain linked to a sphingoid base) embedded in the cell membrane, which is attached to a wide variety of oligosaccharide structures that extend from the non-cytosolic leaflet of the lipid bilayer (Degroote et al., 2004; Lahiri and Futerman, 2007). The ceramide is made in...