We derived a discriminant function separating patients with bipolar endogenous depression ("melancholia") from patients with nonendogenous ("neurotic") depression, and showed that the difference between the groups was not one of overall severity of illness alone. The discriminant function (DF) included 5 clinical items. We reduced the DF to a discriminant index (DI) with integral item weights, ...

Three samples of 50 undergraduates each completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R), one sample under normal test conditions and two samples under di€erent instructions to fake good. The data con®rm the view that the correlation between neuroticism and lie scale scores provides an index of the motivation to fake good within di€erent samples. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights r...

Observers are usually formulated as explicit systems of di erential equations and implemented using standard ODE solvers. In this paper, we show that there can be advantages in formulating the observer as a DAE (Di erential-Algebraic Equation). We review the general idea of DAE observer design of [10]. We give two special normal forms for which DAE observer design yields an observer with linear...

The cycle index polynomial of a symmetric group is a basic tool in combinatorics and especially in Pólya enumeration theory. It seems irrelevant to numerical analysis. Through Faá di Bruno’s formula, cycle index is connected with numerical analysis. In this work, the Hermite interpolation polynomial is explicitly expressed in terms of cycle index. Applications in Gauss-Turán quadrature formula ...

INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common causes of musculoskeletal system's ailments. In the prevention of the disease and in its comprehensive treatment, proper health-related behavior becomes an extremely important factor for maintaining an optimal health condition. The aim of the study is to assess the relationship between the reported pain and the disability level, and the...

The Wiener index of a graph is the sum of all pairwise distances of vertices of the graph. In this paper we characterize the trees which minimize the Wiener index among all trees of given order and maximum degree and the trees which maximize the Wiener index among all trees of given order that have only vertices of two di erent degrees.

The aim of the present study was to use the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG(di)) to compare levels of neural respiratory drive (NRD) in a cohort of healthy subjects and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, and to investigate the relationship between NRD and pulmonary function in COPD. EMG(di) was recorded at rest and normalised to peak EMG(di) recorded during maximum inspiratory...