Since the type of dyslipidemia in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is still insufficiently defined, we measured plasma lipids and analyzed LDL size and subclasses by gradient gel electrophoresis in 30 male patients (69+/-6 years, BMI: 27+/-3) with newly diagnosed AAA and in 26 age- and BMI-matched male healthy controls. Patients with AAA had lower HDL-cholesterol (p<.0001), increas...

Let K be a subgraph of G. It is shown that if G is 3–connected moduloK then it is possible to replace branches ofK by other branches joining same pairs of main vertices of K such that G has no local bridges with respect to the new subgraph K. A linear time algorithm is presented that either performs such a task, or finds a Kuratowski subgraph K5 or K3,3 in a subgraph of G formed by a branch e a...

WELFARE ANALYSIS USING LOGSUM DIFFERENCES VS. RULE OF 1 HALF: A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES 2 3 Shuhong Ma 4 Associate Professor 5 School of Highways, Chang’an University 6 Xi’an, China, 710064 7 [email protected] 8 9 Kara M. Kockelman 10 Professor and William J. Murray Jr. Fellow 11 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering 12 The University of Texas at Austin 13 [email protected]...

Engineering design optimization often gives rise to problems in which expensive objective functions are minimized by derivative-free methods. We propose a method for solving such problems that synthesizes ideas from the numerical optimization and computer experiment literatures. Our approach relies on kriging known function values to construct a sequence of surrogate models of the objective fun...

WELFARE ANALYSIS USING LOGSUM DIFFERENCES VS. RULE OF 1 HALF: A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES 2 3 Shuhong Ma 4 Associate Professor 5 School of Highways, Chang’an University 6 Xi’an, China, 710064 7 [email protected] 8 9 Kara M. Kockelman 10 Professor and William J. Murray Jr. Fellow 11 Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering 12 The University of Texas at Austin 13 [email protected]...