1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A previously healthy 31-year-old woman presented to our emergency department with a 1-month history of fever, non-productive cough, malaise and weight loss. She also reported having had low back and left buttock pain for the last 5 months. Stress tests of the sacroiliac joint, namely the lateral pelvic compression test, the fl exion, abduction and external rotation of the hip...

Resumen Background: Likelihood-based methods can work poorly when the residuals are not normally distributed and the variances across clusters are heterogeneous. Method: The performance of two estimation methods, the non-parametric residual bootstrap (RB) and the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) for fi tting multilevel models are compared through simulation studies in terms of bias, coverag...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender diff erences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and fi rm characteristics, we fi nd a diff erence between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive for males but insig...

In this paper, we have developed and analysed per models for recursive types, polymorphism, and subtyping. In developing our models, the emphasis has been on simplicity and on understanding the necessity of any conditions we impose on our structures. While similar structures have been given using the interpretation of constructive logic in a topos, the presentation of the models here is more di...

Published in Agron. J. 103:76–84 (2011) Published online 3 Nov 2010 doi:10.2134/agronj2010.0189 Copyright © 2011 by the American Society of Agronomy, 5585 Guilford Road, Madison, WI 53711. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrie...

This paper presents a variable-rate CELP codec which achieves good communications speech quality at an average rate of about 3 kb/s. The codec operates as a source-controlled variable rate coder with rates of 4.9 kb/s for voiced and transition sounds, 3.0 kb/s for unvoiced sounds and 670 b/s for silent frames. New techniques used in the codec include prediction of the xed codebook target vector...

© 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests may be used as miniature springs, compliant thermal interfaces, and shock absorbers, and for these and other applications it is vital to understand how to engineer their mechanical properties. Herein is investigated how the diameter and packing density within CNT forests govern their deformation b...

Recently introduced frequency modulation (FM) systems provide an adaptive adjustment to the emphasis of the FM system through the user’s hearing aid via VoicePriority iTM (VPi). VPi measures the noise level at the listener’s hearing aid microphone and adds gain to the FM signal when the background noise increases to a detrimental level. However, the potential benefi t of VPi technology has yet ...

We study a class of discrete dynamical systems that is motivated by the generic structure of simulations. The systems consist of the following data: (a) a ®nite graph Y with vertex set f1; . . . ; ng where each vertex has a binary state, (b) functions Fi : F2 ! F2 and (c) an update ordering p. The functions Fi update the binary state of vertex i as a function of the state of vertex i and its Y-...

Speech recognition in quiet and in noise was evaluated for children with normal hearing, children with hearing loss, and adults with normal hearing. Performance was evaluated in a classroom environment without use of wireless radio frequency (RF) hearing assistance technology (HAT) and with two different types of classroom audio distribution (CAD) systems (a fi xed-gain multiple loudspeaker sys...