background: correlations between bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver, skin and lung transplant rejection or survival with human cytokine gene polymorphisms have been described. there are also reports about the role of cytokines and tumor necrosis factors-alpha (tnf-α) on corneal transplant in animal models. further studies are needed to clarify the role of cytokines in corneal allograft rejection...

A model-based diagnostic test for signal extraction was first described in Maravall (2003), and this basic idea was modified and studied in Findley, McElroy, and Wills (2004). The paper at hand improves on the latter work in two ways: central limit theorems for the diagnostics are developed, and two hypothesis-testing paradigms for practical use are explicitly described. A further modified diag...

We apply retrospective cost adaptive control (RCAC) to a broadband disturbance rejection problem under limited modeling information and assuming that the performance variable is measured. The goal is to compare the asymptotic performance (that is, after convergence of the controller) of the adaptive controller with the performance of discrete-time LQG controller, which uses complete modeling in...

General linear mixed models are commonly used in the analysis of unbalanced repeated measures designs (Verbeke & Molenberghs, 2000). Though the relative performance of linear mixed models in unbalanced designs has been widely contrasted with general linear modeling of data using varied approaches toward the imputation of missing data values, these studies have focussed largely on modeling under...

This study examined (1) the interrelationships among 5-HTTLPR genotype, perceived parental rejection, and impulsivity, and (2) meditational models in which perceived paternal/maternal rejection mediates the relationship between the 5-HTTLPR genotype and impulsive behaviour. Participants included 403 adults (152 males and 252 females, mean age = 24.20) who provided genetic data and a set of the ...

Desalination that produces clean freshwater from seawater holds the promise of solving the global water shortage for drinking, agriculture and industry. However, conventional desalination technologies such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation involve large amounts of energy consumption, and the semipermeable membranes widely used in reverse osmosis face the challenge to provide a high th...