F ROM THE POINT OF VIEW of hemodynamics the blood is generally considered to circulate within a closed system of blood vessels. Even the smallest capillaries appear, under the microscope, as closed thin-walled vessels separating the blood from the extravascular fluid. Only occasionally are discontinuities in the capillary wall made evident by the diapedesis of one of the formed elements of the ...

We extend the results of De Luca et al. (2021) to inference for linear regression models based on weighted-average least squares (WALS), a frequentist model averaging approach with Bayesian flavor. We concentrate about single focus parameter, interpreted as causal effect policy or intervention, in presence potentially large number auxiliary parameters representing nuisance component model. In ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the extent of workplace activity limitations among persons with lupus and to identify factors associated with activity limitations among those employed. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study using a mailed survey and clinical data of persons with lupus who attended a large lupus outpatient clinic. Data were collected on demographics,...

The asymptotic behavior of an elastic thin film penalized by a van der Wals type interfacial energy is investigated when both its thickness and the magnitude of the additional energy vanish in the limit. Keeping track of both mid-plane and out of plane deformations (through the introduction of the Cosserat vector), the resulting behavior strongly depends upon the ratio between thickness and int...

The recent availability of typological databases such as World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) has spurred investigations regarding their utility for language classification, the stability of typological features in genetic linguistics and typological universals across the language families of the world. Existing work on building NLP resources such as parallel corpora, treebanks for under-r...

To test this hypothesis, Atkinson employs a sample of 504 non-extinct languages from WALS (Haspelmath et al. (eds.) 2008), for which the number of vowels, the number of consonants, and the number of tones in the language are annotated (Maddieson 2008a, b, c). For the main analysis, these three measures were standardized (i.e., the mean was subtracted from each value, which was then divided by t...

LAPSyD, the Lyon-Albuquerque Phonological Systems Database, is an online phonological database equipped with powerful query, mapping and visualization tools. It stems from the UPSID and WALS databases, enhanced with newly validated data not only covering segmental inventories but also syllable structures, stress and tonal systems. In its current version it covers around 700 languages and it is ...