introduction nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) is characterized by sufficient cortisol and aldosterone production at the cost of androgen overproduction. hydrocortisone or dexamethasone in supraphysiological doses are current treatment; however, their downside is suppression of endogenous cortisol production resulting in corticosteroid dependency. we aimed to treat children with...

An important recent finding is that testing improves learning and memory. In this article, the authors describe a demonstration that illustrates this principle and helps students incorporate more testing into their learning. The authors asked students to read one text using a Study–Study strategy and one text using a Study–Test strategy. One week later, the authors tested students’ memory for b...

De Vrijer has presented a proof of the finite developments theorem which, in addition to showing that all developments are finite, gives an effective reduction strategy computing longest developments as well as a simple formula computing their length. We show that by applying a rather simple and intuitive principle of duality to de Vrijer’s approach one arrives at a proof that some developments...

3 Adapting the Covariance Matrix 10 3.1 Estimating the Covariance Matrix From Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2 Rank-μ-Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.3 Rank-One-Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.1 A Different Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.2 Cumulation: Uti...

global tuberculosis (tb) report (2013) has revealed that an estimated 8.6 million people developed tb of which, india accounts for almost 26% of the cases. these estimates clearly suggest that the country’s efforts to achieve millennium development goal 6 by 2015 have not delivered the desired output. in india, the tb prevention and control activities are supervised and implemented under the re...