Insomnia is one of the most common complaints at worksites, as well as in the general population. This study aims to assess the effect of insomnia on the development of hypertension in Japanese male workers. Using the annual health examination database of a Japanese telecommunication company, eligible middle-aged male participants in the 1994 health examination were followed up until 1998 or th...

Nonsmooth mechanical systems, which are mechanical systems involving dry friction and rigid unilateral contact, are usually described as differential inclusions (DIs), that is, differential equations involving discontinuities. Those DIs may be approximated by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by simply smoothing the discontinuities. Such approximations, however, can produce unrealistic beh...

A series of experiments assessed masked priming for letters and words that are visually similar (SIM) and dissimilar (DIS) in upper- and lowercase formats. For letters, robust DIS priming was obtained in a naming task, but this priming did not extend to a variety of non-naming tasks. For words, robust DIS priming was obtained in both naming and non-naming tasks. SIM letter and word priming exte...

The National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS) was administered by trained lay interviewers to a sample of 82 outpatients with clinical diagnoses of DSM-III schizophrenic disorder. Of these subjects, 77 percent were also diagnosed as suffering from DSM-III schizophrenic disorder according to the structured interview (NIMH-DIS) administered by a lay interviewer....

In this paper, we consider characterizations based on the Bhattacharyya matrices. We characterize, under certain constraint, dis tributions such as normal, compound poisson and gamma via the diago nality of the 2 X 2 Bhattacharyya matrix.

Deep sequencing of embryonic stem cell RNA revealed many specific internal introns that are significantly more abundant than the other introns within polyadenylated transcripts; we classified these as "detained" introns (DIs). We identified thousands of DIs, many of which are evolutionarily conserved, in human and mouse cell lines as well as the adult mouse liver. DIs can have half-lives of ove...

This paper tests the hypothesis that listeners miss dis uencies or fail to transcribe them accurately because dis uencies interfere with the normal relationship between speech sound and linguistic context in human spoken word recognition. In a word-level gating experiment 16 listeners heard a total of 56 dis uent utterances selected from a corpus of spontaneous speech, 56 length-matched uent co...

This paper tests the hypothesis that listeners miss dis uencies or fail to transcribe them accurately because dis uencies interfere with the normal relationship between speech sound and linguistic context in human spoken word recognition. In a word-level gating experiment 16 listeners heard a total of 56 dis uent utterances selected from a corpus of spontaneous speech, 56 length-matched uent co...

For simplicity and clarity of presentation, the following refers to the effect modification between two dichotomous exposure variables, A and B, and the risk of a dichotomous outcome (DIS). Extension to continuous variables is straightforward. For the following generalized linear model (logistic regression model) containing an interaction term: Ln(Odds DIS) = constant + ß 1 (A) + ß 2 (B) + ß 3 ...

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