Missing data and especially dropouts frequently arise in longitudinal data. Maximum likelihood estimates are consistent when data are missing at random (MAR) but, as this assumption is not checkable, pattern mixture models (PMM) have been developed to deal with informative dropout. More recently, latent class models (LCM) have been proposed as a way to relax PMM assumptions. The aim of this pap...

Purpose In a recent paper that was published in Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management , Modell (2021) takes stock the institutional research on performance measurement management (PMM) public sector proposes number avenues for further inquiry area. The aim this comment is to contextualise some his observations against backdrop current developments (new) theory. Design...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise our understanding public value accounting (PVA) by studying the use and usefulness performance measurements (PM) as a management tool. authors do from perspective in which they address complexity various (sometimes conflicting) assessments measurement (PMM) different stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach An interpretative case study usin...

    Six sigma,   Rolled throughput yield, Organizational performance Six Sigma is a well- established approach to improve the capability of business processes in order to gain satisfaction of customers. The performance assessment of a given process is essential to some phases of six sigma methodology. So far, different indicators are used to demonstrate the performance of a process, while many ...

The disposition and metabolism of pentamethylmelamine (PMM) and hexamethylmelamine (HMM) were studied in the rabbit, and the disposition of PMM was studied in humans. Parent compound and metabolites were identified by thin-layer chromatography, gas chromatography, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analyses. Plasma elimination in both species following i.v. administration of each drug was...

The Parallel Mixed Model (PMM) approach is suitable for hit selection and cross-comparison of RNAi screens generated in experiments that are performed in parallel under several conditions. For example, we could think of the measurements or readouts from cells under RNAi knock-down, which are infected with several pathogens or which are grown from different cell lines. PMM simultaneously takes i...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to clinically investigate the mucosal variations in different parts of hard palate subject to soft tissue harvesting and its relationship with selected parameters in patients with gingival recessions. MATERIALS & METHODS Fifty periodontally healthy, dentate subjects (13 males) with gingival recessions were enrolled into the study. After initial periodontal ...

Widespread resistance towards antimony and reports of relapses following miltefosine treatment has severely affected the management of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent. Paromomycin (PMM), an aminoglycoside antibiotic, has been licensed for VL treatment in India in 2007. Although its use is still restricted in the field, unraveling the molecular mechanism of resistance towa...

This paper studies the iteration-complexity of a new primal-dual algorithm based on Rockafellar’s proximal method of multipliers (PMM) for solving smooth convex programming problems with inequality constraints. In each step, either a step of Rockafellar’s PMM for a second-order model of the problem is computed or a relaxed extragradient step is performed. The resulting algorithm is a (large-ste...