The study explored how two measures of mother-adolescent dissimilarity in illness representations relate to negative emotional adjustment in mothers and adolescents. Eighty-four adolescents with type 1 diabetes (age 11.5-17.5) and their mothers completed the Revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire and measures of negative emotional adjustment. Adolescents viewed diabetes as less chronic, cont...

In this paper the classical estimators of the shape parameter for the Burr Type XII distribution, such as, the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), the Uniformly Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator (UMVUE), and the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MinMSE) estimator are obtained. Then the problem of finding the minimax estimators of this parameter under the squared log error, precautionary, and weight...

Movies of MCAK-GFP diffusion were analyzed using ”Motion Tracking,” an in-house software package written in the Pluk software development environment (ref. 18). The program starts by identifying peaks in the pixel intensity values for a single frame of the movie. Intensity peaks are assigned (x, y) position values by fitting the experimental intensity distribution with a squared Lorentzian func...

For the problem of estimating a regression function, μ say, subject to shape constraints, like monotonicity or convexity, it is argued that the divergence of the maximum likelihood estimator provides a useful measure of the effective dimension of the model. Inequalities are derived for the expected mean squared error of the maximum likelihood estimator and the expected residual sum of squares. ...

A bstract We revisit the modular weights in type IIB magnetized D-brane models. The simple analysis of wave function shows that four-dimensional matter fields have weight -1/2, but it may shift as one IIA intersecting For example, localized gauge flux well curvature can Such corrections do not affect physical couplings such Yukawa couplings. However, leads to differences supersymmetry breaking ...

Dependent Variable: Y Method: Least Squares Date: 05/23/00 Time: 05:55 Sample: 1 33 Included observations: 33 Variable Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic Prob. C 102192.4 12799.83 7.983891 0.0000 N -9074.674 2052.674 -4.420904 0.0001 P 0.354668 0.072681 4.879810 0.0000 I 1.287923 0.543294 2.370584 0.0246 R-squared 0.618154 Mean dependent var 125634.6 Adjusted R-squared 0.578653 S.D. dependent v...

the iranian poultry sector has experienced many significant structural changes in recent years. such changes may have influenced price dynamics and transmission of shocks through marketing channels especially on retail markets. this paper investigate price transmission, threshold behavior and asymmetric adjustment in poultry sector of ardebil (ar), east azerbaijan (ea) and west azerbaijan (wa) ...