1 Intro In my 1988 SIGPLAN paper “Control-Flow Analysis in Scheme,” I promised to cover several items in more detail in a “forthcoming tech report.” The tech report has yet to happen. Most of the promised items have been covered in other papers (“The Semantics of Scheme Control-Flow Analysis” and “Data-Flow Analysis and Type Recovery in Scheme”). Useless-variable elimination, however, is still ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in Asian countries applying Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the time series data of 44 Asian countries from 2000 to 2010. Using Battese and Coelli approach, TFP is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. TFP decomposition using SFA method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

In [4], we have studied the statistical properties and mono-fractality of the power system time series, voltage magnitude (V), frequency (f), and phase angle (θ). The power system data was measured using three Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) installed at Baylor University, Harris Substation, McDonald Observatory in the Texas Synchrophasor Network [1]. Our analysis of several data sets has shown...

In termites, i.e. a major group of eusocial insects, the soldier caste exhibits specific morphological characteristics and extremely high aggression against predators. Although the genomic background is identical to the other non-aggressive castes, they acquire the soldier-specific behavioral character during the course of caste differentiation. The high aggressiveness and defensive behavior is...

BACKGROUND The KK/Ta mouse strain serves as a suitable polygenic model for human type 2 diabetes. We previously reported a genome-wide linkage analysis of KK/Ta alleles contributing to type 2 diabetes and related phenotypes such as fasting hyperglycaemia, glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinaemia, obesity and dyslipidaemia. METHODS Since KK/Ta mice spontaneously develop renal lesions closely res...

The goal of this paper was to attempt to characterize the traders in the bitcoin market. Specifically, this paper attempted to analyze whether any technical-analysis based trading strategies were being used traders in the bitcoin market, and if so, which strategies were being employed and to what degree. The paper focused on simple trading strategies based on well-understood indicators such as ...

Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare severe conjunctivitis characterised by fibrin-rich, 'woody', pseudomembranes on the tarsal conjunctiva complicated by congenital hypoplasminogenaemia. A previous report suggested that ligneous conjunctivitis may result from tranexamic acid (TA)-induced 'secondary' hypoplasminogenaemia. However, the serum plasminogen level has not been confirmed in that scenario...

We report on a study of the ability of analysts to distinguish an actual price series of an equity from random alternatives. Virtually all of the statistical tests on the results support the hypothesis that no skill was exhibited in selecting the correct response. Many of the analysts were extremely over-confident about their ability to select correct answers. The one area where it seems skill ...

OBJECTIVE Transluminal resection of the aortic valve was already successfully carried out by our group. The aim of this study was the analysis of the gross anatomy and the histology of the surrounding tissue after resection. METHODS Aortic valve resection was performed in postmortem human hearts (endoluminal (EL) n=9, transapical (TA) n=4). After deployment of the aortic valve isolation chamb...

Background: Adapted from results in the field of cervical cancer, a direct connection between HPV infection and oropharyngeal carcinoma development could be established. Aim of this study was to evaluate p16 and TA-MUC1 in laryngeal cancer and their correlation to diagnostic, since TA-MUC1 is primarily restricted to malignancies. Methods: Paraffin-embedded laryngeal cancer specimens (n=129) and...