Traditional theories of delinquency causation generally fail to consider delinquency in the context of norms and age-role transitions peculiar to adolescence. Hence, in this study, an age-based theory of delinquency causation is developed, which assumes the importance of norms and roles specific to adolescence. This theory draws upon the assumption that socialization is recurrent, in contrast t...

Introduction: Radiation therapy planning (RTP) is one of the clinical applications in which both CT scan and MRI are used. MR and CT images are applied to determine the target volume and calculation of dose distribution, respectively. In addition, using two imaging modalities increases the department workload and cost. In this study, an algorithm was presented to create synthet...

Deviation is a recent constraint to balance a set of variables with respect to a given mean. We show that the propagators recently introduced are not bound-consistent when the mean is rational. We introduce bound-consistent propagators running in linear time with respect to the number of variables. We evaluate the improvement in terms of efficiency and pruning obtained with the new propagators ...

addressed the feasibility of obtaining sensitive, accurate, and reproducible mutation detection results in synthetic templates, cell lines, and FFPE tissue samples using TaqMan Mutation Detection Assays. Analytical performance assessed with synthetic templates and genomic DNA (gDNA) extracted from cell lines or model FFPE cell lines indicates that TaqMan Mutation Detection Assays have a minimum...

Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion of speech signals via an analysisby-synthesis method requires the comparison of natural and synthetic speech spectra either indirectly via formant frequencies, or directly via cepstral coefficients. This paper investigates several strategies of cepstral adaptation (affine transformation of cepstral coefficients, bilinear or piecewise linear frequency warping) ...

We establish functional large deviation principles (FLDPs) for waiting and departure processes in single-server queues with unlimited waiting space and the rst-in rst-out service discipline. We apply the extended contraction principle to show that these processes obey FLDPs in the function space D with one of the non-uniform Skorohod topologies whenever the arrival and service processes obey FL...