Two families with polycythemia inherited as an autosomal dominant trait are described. Serial hemoglobin determinations in multiple family members and RBC volume measurements in selected affected subjects documented their polycythemia. Measurements of arterial p02s, p50s, and blood oxygen affinity were normal in all affected individuals from each family who were tested. Erythropoietin (EPO) lev...

Though some economic environments provide allocation rules that are implementable in dominant strategies (strategy-proof), a significant number of environments yield impossibility results. On the other hand, while there are quite general possibility results regarding implementation in Nash or Bayesian equilibrium, these equilibrium concepts make strong assumptions about the knowledge that playe...

Linguistic and related cognitive abilities were investigated two years after dominant left hemispherectomy for cerebral malignancy in a 12 year old female. Auditory comprehension of speech was superior to other modes of language abilities with expressive speech being the least developed. Findings suggested an isolation or non-communication between the systems for speaking and for writing and vi...

We report the second family recognised to have autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy. The clinical features were (1) autosomal dominant inheritance; (2) peripheral, coarse pigmentary degeneration of the fundus for 360 degrees, with a relatively discrete posterior border in the equatorial region (this finding may be pathognomonic); (3) superficial punctate yellowish-white opacities in the...

We consider the class of doubly diagonally dominant matrices (A = [ ajj] E C”, ‘, la,,1 l”jjl > Ck+ i laiklCk+ jlajkl. i #j) and its subclasses. We give necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of the directed graph for an irreducibly doubly diagonally dominant matrix to be a singular matrix or to be an H-matrix. As in the case of diagonal dominance, we show that the Schur complements of do...