All views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This paper demonstrates that, in the context of U.S. housing data, rents and ex ante user costs diverge markedly—in both growth rates and levels—for extended periods of time, a seeming failure of arbitrage and a puzzle from the perspective of st...

BACKGROUND The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) has been widely used in research and clinical settings. To be able to attribute differences in PHQ-9 scores between groups with different cultural backgrounds to differences in the level of depression, the instrument has to possess measurement invariance. METHODS Data from the Apollo-D study were used. We used two strongly contrasting cult...

Visualization has become a valuable means for data exploration and analysis. Interactive visualization combines expressive graphical representations and effective user interaction. Although interaction is an important component of visualization approaches, much of the visualization literature tends to pay more attention to the graphical representation than to interaction. e goal of this work i...

This paper briefly describes the development of a research tool for analysis of speaker age using data-driven formant synthesis. A prototype system was developed to automatically extract 23 acoustic parameters from the Swedish word ‘själen’ [ˈɧɛːlən] (the soul) spoken by four differently aged female speakers of the same dialect and family, and to generate synthetic copies. Functions for paramet...

Objective: To assess the safety of Mitchelle bank technique for herniotomy in children by comparing its recurrence rate with conventional Ferguson's technique.
 Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.
 Place and Duration Study: Paediatric Surgery Department, Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Sep 2018 to 2019.
 Methodology: Children below age 6 years coming...