Bowling Green State University

About: Bowling Green State University is a education organization based out in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8315 authors who have published 16042 publications receiving 482564 citations. The organization is also known as: BGSU.

Matrix Variate Distributions

Abstract: PRELIMINARIES Matrix Algebra Jacobians of Transformations Integration Zonal Polynomials Hypergeometric Functions of Matrix Argument LaGuerre Polynomials Generalized Hermite Polynomials Notion of Random Matrix Problems MATRIX VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION Density Function Properties Singular Matrix Variate Normal distribution Symmetic Matrix Variate Normal Distribution Restricted Matrix Variate Normal Distribution Matrix Variate Q-Generalized Normal Distribution WISHART DISTRIBUTION Introduction Density Function Properties Inverted Wishart Distribution Noncentral Wishart Distribution Matrix Variate Gamma Distribution Approximations MATRIX VARIATE t-DISTRIBUTION Density Function Properties Inverted Matrix Variate t-Distribution Disguised Matrix Variate t-Distribution Restricted Matrix Variate t-Distribution Noncentral Matrix Variate t-Distribution Distribution of Quadratic Forms MATRIX VARIATE BETA DISTRIBUTIONS Density Functions Properties Related Distributions Noncentral Matrix Variate Beta Distribution MATRIX VARIATE DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS Density Functions Properties Related Distributions Noncentral Matrix Variate Dirichlet Distributions DISTRIBUTION OF MATRIX QUADRATIC FORMS Density Function Properties Functions of Quadratic Forms Series Representation of the Density Noncentral Density Function Expected Values Wishartness and Independence of Quadratic Forms of the Type XAX' Wishartness and Independence of Quadratic Forms of the Type XAX'+1/2(LX'+XL')+C Wishartness and Independence of Quadratic Forms of the Type XAX'+L1X'+XL'2+C MISCELLANEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS Uniform Distribution on Stiefel Manifold Von Mises-Fisher Distribution Bingham Matrix Distribution Generalized Bingham-Von Mises Matrix Distribution Manifold Normal Distribution Matrix Angular Central Gaussian Distribution Bimatix Wishart Distribution Beta-Wishart Distribution Confluent Hypergeometric Function Kind 1 Distribution Confluent Hypergeometric Function Kind 2 Distribution Hypergeometric Function Distributions Generalized Hypergeometric Function Distributions Complex Matrix Variate Distributions GENERAL FAMILIES OF MATRIX VARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS Matrix Variate Liouville Distributions Matrix Variate Spherical Distributions Matrix Variate Elliptically Contoured Distributions Orthogonally Invariant and Residual Independent Matrix Distributions GLOSSARY REFERENCES SUBJECT INDEX Each chapter also includes an Introduction and Problems @

Operationalization of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies

Abstract: For the past 20 years, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) has provided leadership for the American counseling profession in major sociocultural and sociopolitical domains. Through our vision of the centrality of culture and multiculturalism to the counseling profession, we have created new directions and paradigms for change. One of our major contributions has been the development of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue, Arredondo, & McDavis, 1992).

Customer-Employee Rapport in Service Relationships

Abstract: Relationships are an important aspect of doing business, and few businesses can survive without establishing solid relationships with their customers. Although the marketing literature suggests tha...

Biliopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch

Abstract: Background: This paper evaluates biliopancreatic diversion combined with the duodenal switch, forming a hybrid procedure which is a combination of restriction and malabsorption. Methods: The evaluation is of the first 440 patients undergoing this procedure who had had no previous bariatric surgery. The mean starting weight was 183 kg, with 41% of our patients considered super morbidly obese (BMI > 50). Results: There was an average maximum weight loss of 80% excess weight by 24 months postoperation; this continued at a 70% level for 8 years. Major complications were found in almost 9% of the cases. There were two perioperative deaths, one from pulmonary embolism and one from acute pulmonary obstruction. There were 36 type II diabetics, all of whom have discontinued medication following the surgery. Seventeen revisions were performed to correct excess weight loss and low protein levels. There have been no marginal ulcers, no cases of dumping syndrome, no foreign material used, and the procedure is a pyloric saving procedure which is functionally reversible. Conclusions: This operation has vastly improved the lives of seriously obese patients with many co-morbidities. All type II diabetics have essentially been cured of their disease. The procedure was tolerated well and patients are quite satisfied. There was minimal regain of weight with this method.

Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

Abstract: Draft genome sequences have been determined for the soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae and the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Oomycetes such as these Phytophthora species share the kingdom Stramenopila with photosynthetic algae such as diatoms, and the presence of many Phytophthora genes of probable phototroph origin supports a photosynthetic ancestry for the stramenopiles. Comparison of the two species' genomes reveals a rapid expansion and diversification of many protein families associated with plant infection such as hydrolases, ABC transporters, protein toxins, proteinase inhibitors, and, in particular, a superfamily of 700 proteins with similarity to known oomycete avirulence genes.