The goal of this article was to validate the existence and qualities of a peer-rejected group of children using latent profile analysis (LPA). Two separate racially/ethnically diverse samples (Study 1: N = 2,052 second graders; Study 2: N = 594 fourth and fifth graders) completed peer nominations of liking and disliking, from which we calculated Social Preference and Social Impact scores. These...

We use methods of maximum likelihood estimation to fit several microsatellite mutation models to the observed length distribution of dinucletoide repeats in the Drosophila and human genomes. All simple models are rejected by this procedure. Two new models, one with quadratic and another with piecewise linear slippage rates, have the best fits and agree with recent experimental studies by predic...

This paper examines the rationality of the Australian survey-based expectations, 1and 4-week-ahead $US/$A exchange rate and 2 and 4-week-ahead Australian 90-day bank bill and 10-year bond rates. The actual and expected variables are found to be cointegrated, indicating that the expected future values and the future realizations of the exchange rate and interest rates have long-run equilibrium r...

The objective of this paper is to examine the long-run Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis in a dynamic panel of twenty OECD countries, using recently developed heterogeneous panel cointegration tests that have not been previously applied to PPP. Another contribution is that we investigate the symmetry and proportionality conditions in PPP using likelihood-based inference as suggested by Johanse...

background in the living donor liver transplant setting, the preoperative assessment of potential donors is important to ensure the donor safety. objectives the aim of this study was to identify causes and costs of living liver-donors rejection in the donation process. materials and methods from june 2010 to june 2012, all potential living liver donors for 66 liver transplant candidates were sc...

Roughly 60% of hearts offered for transplantation are rejected because of organ dysfunction. Moreover, hearts from circulatory-dead patients have long been thought to be non-amenable for transplantation, unlike other organs. However, tentative surgical attempts inspired by the knowledge obtained from preclinical research to recover those hearts have been performed, finally culminating in clinic...

This paper uses the term structure of interest rates to explain the variations of stock prices and stock returns. It shows that interest rates have an important impact on stock returns, especially at long horizons. The hypothesis that expected stock returns move one-for-one with ex ante interest rates, which has been rejected in other studies using short horizon nominal asset returns, is suppor...

☆ The authors are grateful to Li Qingyang, James Z with data collection, and to Jun Yu and an anonymou the Centre for International Governance Innovation lisches Wilhelms Universität Münster, the June 2011 and Financial Econometrics, the 2011 Western Econo nance Association Conference in Macau — where thi ⁎ Corresponding author at: Wilfrid Laurier Univers E-mail address: [email protected] (P.L. Si...