This paper investigates calling melodies produced by 21 Standard German native speakers on a discourse completion task across two contexts: (i) routine context—calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) urgent context—calling a child from afar for a chastising. The intent of this investigation is to bring attention to other calling melodies found in German beside the vocative chant a...

In this document, we introduce five additional examples that motivate our research on testing homogeneity. In particular, we show how to check the assumptions for two linear mixed models to validate the asymptotic distributions of the score test statistics. Then, we give the detailed derivation for the score test statistic. We present the result about the local power of the score test statistic...

This paper introduces a test for the comparison of multiple misspecifed conditional interval models, for the case of dependent observations. Model accuracy is measured using a distributional analog of mean square error, in which the squared (approximation) error associated with a given model, say model i, for the interval [u, u] is measured by E (( (F1(u|Z, θ† 1)− F1(u|Z, θ† 1))− (F0(u|Z, θ0)− ...

We present a new mixed finite element method for solving the extended Fisher-Kolmogorov (EFK) equation. We first decompose the EFK equation as the two second-order equations, then deal with a second-order equation employing finite element method, and handle the other second-order equation using a new mixed finite element method. In the new mixed finite element method, the gradient ∇u belongs to...

We analyze the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the abstract differential equation u'(t)=Au(t)-F(u(t))u(t)+f. Our results are applicable to models of structured population dynamics in which the state space consists of population densities with respect to the structure variables. In the equation the linear term A corresponds to internal processes independent of crowding, the nonlinear logist...

The idea of conjugate or dual representations for finite-element approximations was introduced in [1] in connection with purely topological properties of finite element models; i.e., in the spirit of linear graph theory, if f(u) is a linear functional on a space M of finite element approximations u, then there exists a consistent (conjugate) approximation of f which renders f(u) invariant under...

Representations of numerical value have been assessed by using bounded (e.g., 0-1,000) and unbounded (e.g., 0-?) number-line tasks, with considerable debate regarding whether 1 or both tasks elicit unique cognitive strategies (e.g., addition or subtraction) and require unique cognitive models. To test this, we examined how well a mixed log-linear model accounted for 86 5- to 9-year-olds' estima...

Apart from alkaloids, bioactive properties of Uncaria tomentosa L. have been attributed to its phenolic constituents. Although there are some reports concerning low-molecular-weight polyphenols in U. tomentosa, its polymeric phenolic composition has been scarcely studied. In this study, phenolic-rich extracts from leaves, stems, bark and wood (n = 14) of Uncaria tomentosa plants from several re...

We provide an estimate of the score function for rank regression using compactly supported wavelets. This estimate is then used to find a rank-based asymptotically efficient estimator for the slope parameter of a linear model. We also provide a consistent estimator of the asymptotic variance of the rank estimator. For related mixed models, the asymptotic relative efficiency is also discussed

The anti-neoplastic effects of histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi), Trichostatin A (TSA) and 4-phenylbutyrate (4-PB) on the human glioblastoma cell lines GBM-29, U-343 MG and U-343 MGa Cl. 2:6 were investigated. TSA and 4-PB induced apoptosis in the three cell lines in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Whereas caspase-3 activation was detected in all three cell lines, U-343 MG cells were mo...