Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 519-541 (23 pages) We study the convergence of certain matrix sequences that arise in quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) Markov chains and we ...

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 473-479 (7 pages) We present criteria for irrationality of limits of convergent sequences of rational numbers, ...

Figure 1: Molecular sexing of moa. Figure 3: Comparison of coefficients of variation for femora lengths with female:male mass, in moa. Thus our isolation of single locus nuclear DNA markers for moa ...