On the negative side, neutering male dogs • if done before maturity, increases the risk of osteosarcoma (bone cancer) by a factor of 3.8; this is a common cancer in medium/large and larger breeds with a poor prognosis. • increases the risk of cardiac hemangiosarcoma by a factor of 1.6; this is a common cancer and major cause of death in some breeds • triples the risk of hypothyroidism • increas...

H. O. F. Veiel and R. F. Koopman (2001) advance statistical and legal theses. They correctly point out that the usual regression formula for estimating a pre-event IQ underestimates high IQs and overestimates low IQs (due to regression to the mean). They call this a conditional bias and show it can be sizeable. The author takes issue with their claim that a new estimator they propose should be ...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the existence of an increased risk of complications from influenza A (H1N1)p among patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from an enhanced influenza surveillance project in Montreal, Canada, and age/sex-specific population estimates of diabetes prevalence, we estimated the risk of hospitalization among persons with diabetes. Comparing hospitalized ...

Native RDF stores have been making enormous progress in closing the performance gap compared to relational database management systems (RDBMS). But this small gap, however, still prevents the adoption of RDF stores in scenarios for large-scale enterprise applications. We solve this problem with our native RDF store QUAD and its fundamental design principles. It is based on a vector database sch...

Abstract: Guanine-rich nucleic acids are able to self-assemble into G-quadruplex four-stranded secondary structures, which are found at the level of telomeric regions of chromosomes, oncogene promoter sequences and other biologically-relevant regions of the genome. Due to their extraordinary stiffness and biological role, G-quadruples become relevant in areas ranging from structural biology to ...

Large time-stepping is important for efficient long-time simulations of deterministic and stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Conventional structure-preserving integrators, while being successful generic systems, have limited tolerance to time step size due stability accuracy constraints. We propose use data innovate classical integrators so that they can be adaptive large are tailored ea...

Previous research finds that moving home can serve as a starting point for more sustainable living practices, specifically lower energy consumption. This examines whether changes in occupancy or tenure at residential properties is also associated with decisions on overhauling property’s heating system. Properties are almost twice likely to switch gas from coal, oil peat the primary fuel when ch...

There is the same number of n×n alternating sign matrices (ASMs) as there descending plane partitions (DPPs) with parts no greater than n, but finding an explicit bijection open problem for about 40 years now. So far, quadruples statistics on ASMs and DPPs that have joint distribution been identified. We introduce extensions along n+3 each extension, show two families distribution. The ASM-DPP ...

Gel’fand and Ponomarev [11] introduced the concept of perfect elements and constructed such in the free modular lattice on 4 generators. We present an alternative construction of such elements u (linearly equivalent to theirs) and for each u a direct decomposition u, u of the generating quadruple within the free complemented modular lattice on 4 generators u, u are said to form a perfect pair. ...

Large sets of combinatorial designs has always been a fascinating topic in design theory. These form partition the whole space into with same parameters. In particular, large set block designs, whose blocks are size k taken from an n-set, is all k-subsets n-set disjoint copies defined on and The current most intriguing question this direction whether Steiner quadruple systems exist to provide e...