This paper analyses identification for multivariate unobserved components models in which the innovations to trend and cycle are correlated. We address order and rank criteria as well as potential non-uniqueness of the reduced-form VARMA model. Identification is shown for lag lengths larger than one in case of a diagonal vector autoregressive cycle. We also discuss UC models with common feature...

The degree of addictive substance usage score and three personality variables, namely, authoritarianism, alienation, and anomie were measured in 197 university students through a self-administered questionnaire. WHO's Youth Survey Questionnaire for drag use, Varma et al.'s scale of Authoritarianism, Srole's scale of Anomie, and Pearlin's scale of Alienation, were used. A study of the relationsh...

An article in the July 2016 issue, "Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma" by Gaurav Varma, MSPH, Tyler P. Johnson, MD, and Ranjana H. Advani, MD, described ONO/GS-4059 as a "reversible" inhibitor of BTK when it is in fact an "irreversible" inhibitor. We have made the correction to pages 546 and 552 of the online version at www.hematologyandoncology.ne...

natal bed rest may actually have a deleterious effect upon fetal growth and well-being and that until this basic problem is settled it is not possible to say whether the better results obtained by Dr. Varma and Professor Curzen in their decompressed patients are more likely to have been effected by the dcompression itself or by the lesser amount of enforced bed rest to which they were subjected...

background: to analyze the dosimetric and radio biologic advantages between intensity modulated radiotherapy (imrt) and 3 dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3dcrt) and selection of optimal photon energy for imrt treatments. material and methods: 24 patients with localized prostate carcinoma were planned for 3dcrt and imrt techniques. radiation dose of 54 gy with 2 gy/fraction, was planned to p...

The transport of L-sets along an L-relation R is considered, with L any residuated lattice, sometimes with further properties as to be a frame or an MV-algebra. Pairs of powerset operators related to R are considered and their basic properties are studied in a comprehensive discussion including some results already known. A few examples and suggestions for application and further development ar...