The classical integer valued first-order autoregressive (INA- R(1)) model has been defined on the basis of Poisson innovations. This model has Poisson marginal distribution and is suitable for modeling equidispersed count data. In this paper, we introduce an modification of the INAR(1) model with geometric innovations (INARG(1)) for model- ing overdispersed count data. We discuss some structu...

PURPOSE Facial esthetics play an important role in social interactions. However, children with a repaired complete unilateral cleft lip and palate usually show some disfigurement of the nasolabial area. To date, few studies have assessed the nasolabial appearance after different treatment protocols. The aim of the present study was to compare the nasolabial esthetics after 1- and 3-stage treatm...

At CRYPTO2005, Xiaoyun Wang, Hongbo Yu and Yiqun Lisa Yin proposed a collision attack on SHA-0 that could generate a collision with complexity 2 SHA-0 hash operations. Although the method of Wang et al. can find messages that satisfy the sufficient conditions in steps 1 to 20 by using message modification, it makes no mention of the message modifications needed to yield satisfaction of the suff...

We show that, given an n-dimensional normed space X a sequence of N = (8/ε)2n independent random vectors (Xi)i=1, uniformly distributed in the unit ball of X∗, with high probability forms an ε net for this unit ball. Thus the random linear map Γ : Rn → RN defined by Γx = (〈x,Xi〉)i=1 embeds X in `∞ with at most 1+ ε norm distortion. In the case X = `2 we obtain a random 1 + ε embedding into `∞ w...

J. R. Soc. Interface Brent A. Craven, Eric G. Paterson and Gary S. Settles patterns as an explanation of macrosmia The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow References s http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/12/09/rsif.2009.0490.full.html#related-url Article cited in: ref-list-1 http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/12/09/rsif.2009.0490...

We investigate the origin of the near-infrared emission of the Herbig Ae star MWC 758 on sub-astronomical unit (AU) scales using spectrally dispersed low resolution (R = 35) AMBER/VLTI interferometric observations in the H (1.7 μm) and K (2.2 μm) bands. We find that the K band visibilities and closure phases are consistent with the presence of a dusty disk inner rim located at the dust evaporat...

We report on siblings who suffer from EEC syndrome and show our experiences of the "Basel concept" of cleft lip/palate repair based on the early, one-stage closure of all components. It is performed in the age of 3-4 months to provide early normal conditions for anatomy and muscle function.