For ethical and economic reasons, it is important to design animal experiments well, to analyze the data correctly, and to use the minimum number of animals necessary to achieve the scientific objectives---but not so few as to miss biologically important effects or require unnecessary repetition of experiments. Investigators are urged to consult a statistician at the design stage and are remind...

This paper describes an experimental AT&T concatenative synthesis system using unit selection, for which the basic synthesis units are diphones. The synthesizer may use any of the data from a large database of utterances. Since there are in general multiple instances of each concatenative unit, the system performs dynamic unit selection. Selection among candidates is done dynamically at synthes...

We study one-parameter families of S-unit equations of the form f(t)u+ g(t)v = h(t), where f , g, and h are univariate polynomials over a number field, t is an S-integer, and u and v are S-units. For many possible choices of f , g, and h, we are able to determine all but finitely many solutions to the corresponding one-parameter family of S-unit equations. The results are obtained as consequenc...

Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: the assumption of normality. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 449–453, 2017; doi:10.1152/ advan.00064.2017.—Learning about statistics is a lot like learning about science: the learning is more meaningful if you can actively explore. This twelfth installment of Explorations in Statistics explores the assumption of normality, an assumption essential to the meanin...

Detection of circulating filarial antigen has now emerged as an alternative method for the diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. We compared two antigen detection assays, an Og4C3 ELISA and an ICT (immunochromatography) Filariasis test, for the diagnosis of Wuchereria bancrofti infections in migrant Myanmar workers in Tak province, Western Thailand. A total of 337 Myanmars participated in this s...

This paper deals with global well-posedness of the following free boundary problem for the Navier-Stokes equations. Let Ω be an exterior domain in the N dimensional Eucledian space RN occupied by an incompressible viscous fluid. Let Γ be the boundary of Ω that is a C2 compact hyper surface with the unit outer normal n. Let t Ω be the evolution of Ω at time t. Let t Γ be the boundary of t Ω with...

conclusions considering the personal and background characteristics of personnel and understanding their association with stress and stressful situations encompasses the ability to persevere and adapt to contextual stressors. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 3643 anonymous questionnaires were disseminated among nurses in different hospitals in tehran, iran, by utilizing multi...