There is a consistent inverse association between birth weight and systolic blood pressure; however, few studies have been able to examine the immediate postnatal period. We have examined whether accelerated postnatal growth predicts adult systolic and diastolic blood pressure. We followed up participants from the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. Blood pressure data were obtained on 679 of the or...

A stable variant of Methylomonas methanolica, with a higher temperature optimum for growth, was obtained after mutagenic treatment and selection. The mutant strain M13V has an optimum growth temperature of 35 to 37 degrees C and a maximum at 43 degrees C, as compared with 30 and 40 degrees C for the wild strain. Strain M13V and M. methanolica have similar basic characteristics and cell composit...

In this study, in order to investigate crack retardation behavior and the variability of retardation cycles, crack growth tests are conducted on 7075-T6 aluminum alloy under a single tensile overload. A retardation coefficient D is introduced herein as the ratio of the crack growth rate under constant amplitude loading and the crack growth rate after an overload. This coefficient D is separatel...

We consider the goodness of fit testing problem for stochastic differential equation with small diffusion coefficient. The basic hypothesis is always simple and it is described by the known trend coefficient. We propose several tests of the type of Cramer-von Mises, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Chi-Square. The power functions of these tests we study for a special classes of close alternatives. We dis...

This article focuses on the analytical solution for uniform heating of a FGM hollow sphere made of two phase of different materials. It is assumed that the volume fraction of one phase is a function f1 = (rn−an)/(bn−an) varied in the radial direction. Based on the Voigt constant strain approximation, analytical solutions of stresses, displacements and the effective coefficient of thermal expans...

Rayleigh waves in a half-space exhibiting microplar transversely isotropic generalized thermoelastic properties based on the Lord-Shulman (L-S), Green and Lindsay (G-L) and Coupled thermoelasticty (C-T) theories are discussed. The phase velocity and attenuation coefficient in the previous three different theories have been obtained. A comparison is carried out of the phase velocity, attenuation...

The Fokker–Planck equation with diffusion coefficient quadratic in space variable, linear drift coefficient, and nonlocal nonlinearity term is considered in the framework of a model of analysis of asset returns at financial markets. For special cases of such a Fokker– Planck equation we describe a construction of exact solution of the Cauchy problem. In the general case, we construct the leadin...

For any characteristic zero coefficient field, an irreducible representation of a finite p-group can be assigned a Roquette p-group, called the genotype. This has already been done by Bouc and Kronstein in the special cases Q and C. A genetic invariant of an irrep is invariant under group isomorphism, change of coefficient field, Galois conjugation, and under suitable inductions from subquotien...

SUMMARY The object of the present investigation is to consider a robust procedure for the problem of providing a bounded-length confidence interval for the regression coefficient (in a simple regression model) based on Kendall's (1955) tau. The problem of estimating the difference in the location parameters in the two-sample case may be viewed as a special case of our problem. It is shown that ...

Linear Complementarity Problems (LCPs) belong to the class of NP-complete problems. Therefore we can not expect a polynomial time solution method for LCPs without requiring some special property of the coefficient matrix. Following our recently published ideas we generalize affine scaling and predictor-corrector interior point algorithms to solve LCPs with general matrices in EP-sense, namely, ...