Human cerebrospinal fluid investigated byimmunoelectrophoresis with an antiserum against human cerebrospinal fluid has been shown to contain two proteins, which cannot be demonstrated in human serum (Clausen, 1961; MacPherson and Cosgrove, 1961; Hochwald and Thorbecke, 1962). These proteins will here be named fl-trace protein and y-trace protein according to Hochwald and Thorbecke (1962). Other...

This paper uses a unique data set of monthly new vehicle sales by detailed model from 19782007, and implements a new identification strategy to estimate the effect of the price of gasoline on consumer demand for fuel economy. We control for unobserved vehicle and consumer characteristics by using within model-year changes in the price of gasoline and vehicle sales. We find a significant demand ...

In chapter 10 migration is described in terms of double focussing. In chapter 11 focussing in emission is used to synthesize common focus point gathers (CFP gathers). By comparing aCFPgather with its related focussing operator velocity errors can be detected and the focussing operator can be corrected (Berkhout and Rietveld (1994), Rietveld and Berkhout (1994) , Berkhout (1992), Rietveld and Th...

BACKGROUND : The variability of skin prick test results when carried out by multiple users has not previously been assessed across different devices or between different sites on the body. Such multiuser variability has important implications for clinical practice. OBJECTIVES : We assessed the variability of measurements from 4 commonly used single-headed skin test devices when used by multip...

Neurosecrets such as vasopressin and oxytocin are believed to be involved in the mechanism(s)of the release of pituitary ACTH and gonadotrophin,respectively (Shibusawa, 1955); and it is well accepted that the thyroid gland is under the control of the pituitary. Only scant attention has, however, been paid on the relation of the hypothalamus to the pituitary-thyroidal function. In terms of hypot...

uman resources outsourcing is the fastest-growing outsourcing segment (Dell, 2004). HR outsourcing takes place when a company contracts with an HR vendor to perform an HR activity previously performed by the company (Greer, Youngblood, & Gray, 1999). Forecasts predict that HR outsourcing will continue to grow by more than 30 percent so that the global expenditure on HR outsourcing in the United...

A method is suggested for the calculation of the DeWitt-Seeley-Gilkey (DWSG) coefficients for the operator √ −∇2 + V (x) basing on a generalization of the pseudodifferential operator technique. The lowest DWSG coefficients for the operator √ −∇2 + V (x) are calculated by using the method proposed. It is shown that the method admits a generalization to the case of operators of the type (−∇2 + V ...

Evaluating sums of multivariate Gaussians is a common computational task in computer vision and pattern recognition, including in the general and powerful kernel density estimation technique. The quadratic computational complexity of the summation is a significant barrier to the scalability of this algorithm to practical applications. The fast Gauss transform (FGT) has successfully accelerated ...