This paper considers the problem of testing for umbrella alternatives in the one-way layout when survival data are subject to random right censorship. Testing procedures based on two-sample weighted logrank statistics are suggested for both cases when the peak of the umbrella is known or unknown. The Pitman efficacy of the peak-known umbrella test is derived. A class of Lehmann and scale altern...

This chapter presents a general framework for gesture-controlled audio processing. The gesture parameters are assumed to be multi-dimensional temporal profiles obtained from movement or sound capture systems. The analysis is based on machine learning techniques, comparing the incoming dataflow with stored templates. The mapping procedures between the gesture and the audio processing include a s...

MOTIVATION Optimizing HIV therapies is crucial since the virus rapidly develops mutations to evade drug pressure. Recent studies have shown that genotypic information might not be sufficient for the design of therapies and that other clinical and demographical factors may play a role in therapy failure. This study is designed to assess the improvement in prediction achieved when such informatio...

Interval-censored data consist of adjacent inspection times that surround an unknown failure time. We have in this paper reviewed the classical approach which is maximum likelihood in estimating the Weibull parameters with interval-censored data. We have also considered the Bayesian approach in estimating the Weibull parameters with interval-censored data under three loss functions. This study ...

Convincing synthesis of wind instruments requires more than the reproduction of individual tones. Since the player exerts continuous control over amplitude, frequency, and other parameters, it is not adequate to store simple templates for individual tones and string them together to make phrases. Transitions are important, and the details of a tone are affected by context. To address these prob...

Article history: Received 2 February 2012 Received in revised form 12 September 2012 Accepted 17 September 2012 Available online 24 September 2012 Dynamic panel models play a natural role in several important areas of corporate finance, but the combination of fixed effects and lagged dependent variables introduces serious econometric bias. Several methods of counteracting these biases are avail...

Measurement of osmolality and calculation of osmolar gap are useful diagnostic tools in pathological situations such as hyponatremia, or intoxication by methanol or ethylene glycol. It is thus necessary to handle reliable systems of osmolality measurement. The aim of this study was to compare performances of two currently available osmometers, Fiske 210 and Advanced 3300 devices, both of them b...

Background:   In the last decade, researchers have found that, each person’s success in education, either in school or in university, is not only related with his/her intelligence quotient, but today Emotional Intelligence is considered as another forecaster of people prosperities in their lives .The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinica...

clinical training is an important process in residency academic program in different fields. in this cross-sectional descriptive study, we identified the views of clinical residents about clinical training status at yazd university of medical sciences at their second-year of residency or above. we used questionnaire as the instrument for collecting information and select all residents as the sa...