the protein profiles of different iranian clinical isolats of dermatophytes (microsporum and trichophyton) were compared bv sds polyacrilamide ge! electrophoresis. although some of the protein patterns were common in both genuses, there were some genus specific protein profiles. abo within the species variety of distinct protein were profiles obtained. protein patterns can therefore distinguish...

The paper provides a new class of over-identi…cation tests that are robust to heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation of unknown forms. The tests are based on the series long run variance estimator that is designed to pivotalize the moment restrictions. We show that when the number of terms used in the series long run variance estimator is …xed, the conventional J statistic, after a simple corre...

A conformal mapping in a plane domain locally maps circles to circles. More generally, quasiconformal mappings locally map circles to ellipses of bounded distortion. In this work, we study the corresponding situation for solutions to Stein-Weiss systems in the (n + 1)D Euclidean space. This class of solutions coincides with the subset of monogenic quasiconformal mappings with nonvanishing hyper...

We introduce a new measure on secrecy, which is established based on rate-distortion theory. It is named security rate, which is the minimum (infimum) of the additional rate needed to reconstruct the source within target distortion level with any positive probability for wiretapper. It denotes the minimum distance in information metric (bits) from what wiretapper has received to any decrypted r...

In models with potential weak identification researchers often decide whether to report a robust confidence set based on an initial assessment of model identification. Two-step procedures of this sort can generate large coverage distortions for reported confidence sets, and existing procedures for controlling these distortions are quite limited. This paper introduces a generally-applicable appr...

Consider a Gaussian memoryless multiple source with m components with joint probability distribution known only to lie in a given class of distributions. A subset of k ≤ m components are sampled and compressed with the objective of reconstructing all the m components within a specified level of distortion under a meansquared error criterion. In Bayesian and nonBayesian settings, the notion of u...

We prove a technical lemma, the C-Denjoy-Koebe distortion lemma, estimating the distortion of a long composition of a C onedimensional mapping f : M 7→ M with finitely many, non-recurrent, power law critical points. The proof of this lemma combines the ideas of the distortion lemmas of Denjoy and Koebe.

Definition of (semi) metric. CS motivation. Finite metric spaces arise naturally in combinatorial objects, and algo-rithmic questions. For example, as the shortest path metrics on graphs. We will also see less obvious connections. Properties of finite metrics. The following properties have been investigated: Dimension , extendability of Lipschitz and Hölder functions, decomposability, Inequalit...

Consider a generalized multiterminal source coding system, where ( l m ) encoders, each observing a distinct sizem subset of l (l ≥ 2) zero-mean unit-variance symmetrically correlated Gaussian sources with correlation coefficient ρ, compress their observations in such a way that a joint decoder can reconstruct the sources within a prescribed mean squared error distortion based on the compressed...