Recent publications have seen the introduction of a number of new statistical methods for paleoclimatic reconstructions. When applied to archived multiproxy datasets, most of these methods produce reconstructed curves very similar to the “hockey stick” shape that was first observed by Mann, Bradley and Hughes. However, one recent reconstruction, by McShane and Wyner, produced a sharply differen...

Quantiles, also known as value-at-risks in the financial industry, are important measures of random performances. Quantile sensitivities provide information on how changes in input parameters affect output quantiles. They are very useful in risk management. In this article, we study the estimation of quantile sensitivities using stochastic simulation. We propose a kernel estimator and prove tha...

Erin Grubbs is a master’s student in the Clinical Psychology Program, Missouri State University, Springfield. Gifted children often display sensitivities to their environment that vary from those of the general population. Data were gathered on 6to 11-year-old gifted children attending a public elementary school gifted program. Parents completed Dunn’s (1999) Sensory Profile questionnaire regar...

Since Paul Broca’s discovery (1861) of an association between fluent, articulate speech and the left frontal operculum, research into the neural bases of language has uncovered a complex brain network substrate for the phonological, lexical, semantic, and syntactic functions of normal language comprehension and production (for a review, see Martin, 2003). A particularly salient feature of this ...

A history of pet contact and/or apparent clinical sensitivity was obtained in 65 (55%) of 118 unselected asthmatic children. These 65 children were skin tested and their sera examined for specific IgE using the radioallergosorbent test. Those children who had apparent clinical sensitivities had larger skin test reactions and were more likely to have positive specific IgE results than those with...

The spectral sensitivities of middle- (M-) and long- (L-) wavelength-sensitive cones have been measured in dichromats of known genotype: M-cone sensitivities in nine protanopes, and L-cone sensitivities in 20 deuteranopes. We have used these dichromat cone spectral sensitivities, along with new luminous efficiency determinations, and existing spectral sensitivity and color matching data from no...

AMIGO–The Astrodynamical Middle-frequency Interferometric Gravitation-Wave (GW) Observatory is a first-generation mid-frequency GW mission bridging the sensitivity gap between high-frequency detectors and low-frequency space detectors. In our previous works, we have obtained appropriate heliocentric orbit formations of nominal arm length 10,000[Formula: see text]km with their time-delay configu...