a generalized heckman model is used for the joint modeling of longitudinal continuousresponses and dropout in order to see the influence of a small perturbation of the elements of thecovariance structure on displacement of the likelihood. the perturbation from random dropout in thedirection of informative dropout is considered for mastitis data.

We study p-harmonic functions on metric measure spaces, which are formulated as minimizers to certain energy functionals. For spaces supporting a p-Poincaré inequality, we show that such functions satisfy an infinitesmal Lipschitz condition almost everywhere. This result is essentially sharp, since there are examples of metric spaces and p-harmonic functions that fail to be locally Lipschitz co...

We study weak-coupling perturbation expansions for the ground-state energy of the Hamiltonian with the generalized spiked harmonic oscillator potential V (x) = Bx + A x + λ x , and also for the bottoms of the angular momentum subspaces labelled by l = 0, 1, . . . , in N -dimensions corresponding to the spiked harmonic oscillator potential V (x) = x + λ x , where α is a real positive parameter. ...

A general formulation for the disorientation angle distribution function is derived. The derivation employs the hyperspherical harmonic expansion for orientation distributions, and an explicit solution is presented for materials with cubic crystal symmetry and arbitrary textures. The result provides a significant generalization to the well-known Mackenzie distribution function (Mackenzie JK. Bi...

Recently, Chen, Hou and Jin used both Abel’s lemma on summation by parts and Zeilberger’s algorithm to generate recurrence relations for definite summations. Meanwhile, they proposed the Abel-Gosper method to evaluate some indefinite sums involving harmonic numbers. In this paper, we use the Abel-Gosper method to prove an identity involving the generalized harmonic numbers. Special cases of thi...

For a model system consisting of bilinearly coupled harmonic oscillators and pseudospins, a generalized Langevin equation for the oscillator subsystem, valid for general spatial dimensionality and interaction range, is derived exactly, using Mori's projection operator technique. The retarded friction kernel is derived to second order in the spinoscillator interaction constant. It is shown that ...

Every generalized laplacian L defined on a manifold M determines a sheaf of "L-harmonic" sections namely the sheaf of local solutions of Lu = 0. We study the converse problem: to what extent this sheaf determines the operator. Our main result states that the sheaf of L-harmonic sections determines the operator up to a conformal factor. Moreover, when the operator is a covariant laplacian and th...

The Leibler theory [L. Leibler, Macromolecules 13 1602 (1980)] for mi-crophase separation in AB block copolymer melts is generalized for systems with arbitrary topology of molecules. A diagrammatic technique for calculation of the monomeric correlation functions is developed. The free energies of various mesophases are calculated within the second-harmonic approximation. Model highly-branched t...

Experiments and numerical simulations are used to study non-phasematched single-mode third harmonic generation occurring simultaneously with fs pulse spectral broadening in highly nonlinear fibre. Pump pulses around 100 fs at 1560 nm injected into sub-5 cm lengths of commerciallyavailable highly nonlinear fibre are observed to undergo spectral broadening spanning over 700 nm at the −30 dB level...