Publications

Cancer Statistics, 2008

Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on...

Preliminary reference Earth model

The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality

Governmental rationality - an introduction, Colin Gordon politics and study of discourse, Michel Foucault questions of method, Michel Foucault governmentality, Michel Foucault ...

Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM)

Purpose – The authors aim to present partial least squares (PLS) as an evolving approach to structural equation modeling (SEM), highlight its advantages and limitations and prov...

Sensitivity of Goodness of Fit Indexes to Lack of Measurement Invariance

Two Monte Carlo studies were conducted to examine the sensitivity of goodness of fit indexes to lack of measurement invariance at 3 commonly tested levels: factor loadings, inte...

The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing

Relationship marketing—establishing, developing, and maintaining successful relational exchanges—constitutes a major shift in marketing theory and practice. After conceptualizin...

Deciding on the Number of Classes in Latent Class Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study

Abstract Mixture modeling is a widely applied data analysis technique used to identify unobserved heterogeneity in a population. Despite mixture models' usefulness in practice, ...

Wireless Communications

Wireless technology is a truly revolutionary paradigm shift, enabling multimedia communications between people and devices from any location. It also underpins exciting applicat...

Tumor Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications

THE growth of solid neoplasms is always accompanied by neovascularization. This new capillary growth is even more vigorous and continuous than a similar outgrowth of capillary s...

An Introduction To Compressive Sampling

Conventional approaches to sampling signals or images follow Shannon's theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (Nyquist rat...

TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies

Phylogenies are extremely useful tools, not only for establishing genealogical relationships among a group of organisms or their parts (e.g. genes), but also for a variety of re...

Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19

In patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the use of dexamethasone resulted in lower 28-day mortality among those who were receiving either invasive mechanical ventilation or oxyg...