After years of stagnancy, PLS path modeling has recently attracted renewed interest from applied researchers in marketing. At the same time, the availability of software alternatives to Lohmöller’s LVPLS package has considerably increased (PLS-Graph, PLS-GUI, SPAD-PLS, SmartPLS). To help the user to make an informed decision, the existing programs are reviewed; their strengths and weaknesses ar...

In this Letter, a dumbbell-shaped patch loaded slotline(PLS) is proposed. Like the conventional defected ground structure(DGS) for a microstrip line, we show that the proposed PLS can provide a wide bandstop characteristic in some frequency bands with only one or small number of unit cells. Also, the equivalent circuit model for a unit section is derived from the analysis of the field distribut...

Pronunciation dictionary is one of the important components for the speech technology development for a particular language. This is because it represents the interface between speech analysis on the acoustic level and speech interpretation. The W3C Voice Browser Activity has published a Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 [1] for generation of PLS in different languages. This...

pressive and anti-inflammatory actions. Most glucocorticoids are administrated repeatedly because of their short half-life and are used for not only continuous treatment but also pulse treatment. However, even at moderate doses, the systemic administration of glucocorticoids causes many side-effects, such as diabetes, hypertension, Cushing syndrome, and osteoporosis. Therefore, it is effective ...

Of the many palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) conditions, only Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS) and Haim-Munk syndrome (HMS) are associated with premature periodontal destruction. Although both PLS and HMS share the cardinal features of PPK and severe periodontitis, a number of additional findings are reported in HMS including arachnodactyly, acro-osteolysis, atrophic changes of the nails, and a ra...

Of the many palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) conditions, only Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS) and Haim-Munk syndrome (HMS) are associated with premature periodontal destruction. Although both PLS and HMS share the cardinal features of PPK and severe periodontitis, a number of additional findings are reported in HMS including arachnodactyly, acroosteolysis, atrophic changes of the nails, and a rad...

Partial least squares (PLS) approach is proposed for linear discriminant analysis (LDA) when predictors are data of functional type (curves). Based on the equivalence between LDA and the multiple linear regression (binary response) and LDA and the canonical correlation analysis (more than two groups), the PLS regression on functional data is used to estimate the discriminant coefficient functio...

background: papillon-lefevre syndrome (pls) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by diffused palmoplantar keratoderma and severe periodontitis. increased susceptibility to infections due to impairment of the immune system is considered to be involved in pathoetiology of this disease. objective: according to the crucial function of hla molecules in immune responses and associatio...