Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation We discuss methods for calculating multivariate normal probabilities by simulation and two new Stata programs for this purpose: -mdrawsfor deriving draws from the standard uniform density using either Halton or pseudo-random sequences, and an egen function -mvnp()for calc...

This paper describes a suite of MATLAB® routines devised to provide an approximately optimal solution to an infinite-horizon stochastic optimal control problem. The suite is an updated version of that described in [1] and [2]. Its routines implement a policy improvement algorithm to optimise a Markov decision chain approximating the original control problem, as described in [3]. 2014 Working Pa...

In our recent study, we have demonstrated that short carbon chain n-alcohols (up to octanol) stimulated while long carbon chain n-alcohols inhibited the conductance of connexin (Cx) 36 (Cx36) gap junction (GJ) channels. In contrast, GJ channels composed of other types of Cxs all were inhibited by n-alcohols independent of their carbon chain length. To identify the putative structural domains of...

Under ambient air conditions, NO inhibits NMDAR activity by reacting with the NR2A subunit C399 along with two additional cysteine pairs if their disulfide bonds are reduced to free thiol groups [NR1(C744,C798); NR2(C87,C320)]. Here we demonstrate that relative hypoxia enhances S-nitrosylation of NMDARs by a unique mechanism involving an "NO-reactive oxygen sensor motif" whose determinants incl...

Radio flux densities of Shapley-Ames galaxies at λ2.8 cm from Niklas et al. (1995a, Paper I) and at λ20 cm from Condon (1987, C87) have been used to investigate the radio – far infrared (FIR) correlation at two different radio wavelengths. The correlation between monochromatic radio and the FIR luminosity was found to be non-linear (P2.8cm ∝ L1.09±0.04 FIR and P20cm ∝ L1.23±0.05 FIR ). Galaxies...

We analyze the spectral moments of the V-A two-point correlation function. Using all known short-distance constraints and the most recent experimental data from tau decays, we determine the lowest spectral moments, trying to assess the uncertainties associated with the so-called violations of quark-hadron duality. We have generated a large number of “acceptable” spectral functions, satisfying a...

Using the resonance chiral theory Lagrangian, we perform a calculation of the vector and axial-vector two-point functions at the next-to-leading order (NLO) in the 1/NC expansion. We have analyzed these correlators within the singleresonance approximation and have also investigated the corrections induced by a second multiplet of vector and axial-vector resonance states. Imposing the correct QC...

A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data on firms, in which the non-negative technical inetGciency effects are assumed to be a function of firm-specific variables and time. The inefficiency effects are assumed to be independently distributed as truncations of normal distributions with constant variance, but with means which are a linear function of observable variable...

Using the resonance chiral theory Lagrangian, we perform a calculation of the vector and axial-vector two-point functions at the next-to-leading order (NLO) in the 1/NC expansion. We have analyzed these correlators within the singleresonance approximation and have also investigated the corrections induced by a second multiplet of vector and axial-vector resonance states. Imposing the correct QC...