Patients who have completed a treatment for severe pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are often
left with severe respiratory disability. There have been few prospective studies assessing the …

To assess the effect of weight loss on ventricular repolarization in morbidly obese patients,
39 normotensive subjects whose baseline body mass indexes were ≥40 kg/m 2 before …

Introduction: The stage at cancer diagnosis has a tremendous impact on type of treatment,
recovery and survival. In most cases the earlier the cancer is detected and treated the higher …

Prolongation of the corrected QT interval (QTc) has been described in obese subjects. This
study assesses the relation of left ventricular (LV) mass to QTc in normotensive severely …

Physician–patient email communication is gaining popularity. However, a formal assessment
of physicians' email communication skills has not been described. We hypothesized that …

Methods are considered for finding initial estimates for fitting polyexponential functions. In
particular, a modification to Foss's (1970, Biometrics 26, 815-821) method for finding initial …

In 1984 it became legal for pharmacists to offer customers a cheaper generic alternative for
a given prescription. The motivation for this was the excessively high cost of brand name …

Four procedures are suggested for estimating the parameter ‘a’ in the Pauling equation: eX/a+e
− Y/a = 1. The procedures are: using the mean of individual solutions, least squares with …

… Daniel Fresen Department of Mathematics University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211
fresenj@MO.edu John L Fresen Department of Statistics University of Missouri Columbia …

In this paper we derive an almost-sure expansion for regression M-estimators, generalizing
results of Carroll (1978). The results, which apply to independent (and some types of …