Molecular subtypes and Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) are both prognostic models for breast cancer patients. We evaluated the association between molecular subtypes and NPI in 1042 breast cancer patients. The molecular subtypes indicating poorer prognosis were positively correlated to higher NPI (r = 0.138, P = 0.001). ER positive expression and PR high expression were positively correlated ...

The standard 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time of special relativity is based on the 3-dimensional Euclidean metric. In 1967, H. Busemann showed that similar space-time models can be based on an arbitrary metric space. In this paper, we search for the broadest possible generalization of a metric under which a construction similar to Minkowski space-time leads to a physically reasonable space-t...

This paper provides evidence of linkages between the equity market and the index futures market in Australia where the futures market has experienced a major structural event due to the futures contract respecification. An extended bivariate EGARCH model is developed that includes cointegrating residual as an explanatory variable for both the conditional mean and the conditional variance. The c...

The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic basis of high level aminoglycoside resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Beijing, China. 173 A. baumannii clinical isolates from hospitals in Beijing from 2006 to 2009 were first subjected to high level aminoglycoside resistance (HLAR, MIC to gentamicin and amikacin>512 µg/mL) phenotype selection by broth microdil...

A respirator fit test panel (RFTP) with facial size distribution representative of intended users is essential to the evaluation of respirator fit for new models of respirators. In this study an anthropometric survey was conducted among youths representing respirator users in mid-Taiwan to characterize head-and-face dimensions key to RFTPs for application to small-to-medium facial features. The...

The current international integration of financial markets provides a channel for currency depreciation to affect stock prices. Moreover, the recent financial crisis in Asia with its accompanying exchange rate volatility affords a case study to examine that channel. This paper applies a bivariate GARCH-M model of the reduced form of stock market returns to investigate empirically the effects of...

Korovkin-type theorems in modular spaces and applications C. Bardaro ∗ A. Boccuto † X. Dimitriou ‡ I. Mantellini § Abstract We prove some versions of abstract Korovkin-type theorems in modular function spaces, with respect to filter convergence for linear positive operators, by considering several kinds of test functions. We give some results even with respect to an axiomatic convergence, whose...

RATIONALE Time series analysis has seen limited application in the biomedical Literature. The utility of conventional and advanced time series estimators was explored for intensive care unit (ICU) outcome series. METHODS Monthly mean time series, 1993-2006, for hospital mortality, severity-of-illness score (APACHE III), ventilation fraction and patient type (medical and surgical), were genera...

Although it is important both in theory as well as in applications, a theory of Birkhoff interpolation with main emphasis on the shape of the set of nodes is still missing. Here we explain the problem, and then we concentrate on one of the simplest shapes (“rectangular”) in the case of bivariate uniforme Birkhoff interpolation schemes. The ultimate goal is to obtain a geometrical understanding ...