This study of sibling resemblance in educational attainment seeks to determine whether the effect of family background on educational attainment differs according to family structure, birth order, and sex. In order to address these research problems, I analyze sibling data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households and use a form of the multiple indicator, multiple cause ...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to provide a framework for studying children well being utilising a capability approach. A list of capabilities for children in developing countries is drawn and its methodological justification is provided. The second aim is to suggest an econometric model to estimate child well being, utilising the list of capabilities provided in the first part of ...

leaves only the biomaterial and hollow channels; SEM of gelatin with extracted PCL (magnification 1.50 KX, scale bar 20 μm) (c); Confocal fluorescent image of a DRG stained with phalloidin rhodamine (actin) after 4 days on the scaffold consisting of gelatin, elastin, and hollow channels (magnificiation 10X, scale bar 200 μm (d); Average aspect ratio of the DRGs on various fibrous scaffolds afte...

We present a model-based monitoring method for dynamic systems that exhibit both discrete and continuous behaviors. MIMIC (Dvorak & Kuipers 1991) uses qualitative and semi-quantitative models to monitor dynamic systems even with incomplete knowledge. Recent advances have improved the quality of semi-quantitative behavior predictions, used observations to refine static envelopes around monotonic...

Diagnosis of a clinical condition is a challenging task, which often requires significant medical investigation. Previous work related to diagnostic inferencing problems mostly consider multivariate observational data (e.g. physiological signals, lab tests etc.). In contrast, we explore the problem using free-text medical notes recorded in an electronic health record (EHR). Complex tasks like t...

Citation: Tsaousis I, Sideridis GD and Al-Harbi K (2018) Examining Differences in Withinand Between-Person Simple Structures of an Engineering Qualification Test Using Multilevel MIMIC Structural Equation Modeling. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. 4:3. doi: 10.3389/fams.2018.00003 Examining Differences in Withinand Between-Person Simple Structures of an Engineering Qualification Test Using Multilevel M...

Procedures based on micromolding in capillaries (MIMIC) were used to pattern a surface of a substrate with micrometerand submicrometer-scale structures. An elastomeric stamp made of poly(dimethylsiloxane) and having relief features in its surface was placed on a substrate; contact between the elastomeric stamp and the substrate formed a network of interconnected channels. A fluidsa precursor to...

Here we describe a method of patterning electroluminescent (EL) polymers using micromolding in capillary (MIMIC). MIMIC is the one of the lithographic methods based on the microfludics among the soft lithography using a patterned poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) elastomer. The patterned microstructures of poly(dioctylfluorene) (PDOF), poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV), and poly(2methoxy-5-2 0-ethylh...