Polish Refugees in Canada: Statistical Data

Strongyloidiasis in immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intes tinal roundworm transmitted primarily through barefoot skin exposure in the tropics or subtropics. Acute infection may present with papular rash, cough or wheezing, and gastrointestinal symptoms.1 Manifestations of chronic infection are present in up to half of infected patients and may include abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, recurrent asthma, a Löffler...

Canada owes refugees adequate health coverage.

Statistical Evidences in Type-II Censored Data

In this article, we use a measure of expected true evidence for determine the required sample size in type-II censored experiments for obtaining statistical evidence in favor of one hypothesis about the exponential mean against another.

The health of immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Canada admits between more than 200,000 immigrants every year. National policy emphasizes rigorous selection to ensure that Canada admits healthy immigrants. However, remarkably little policy is directed to ensuring that they stay healthy. This neglect is wrong-headed: keeping new settlers healthy is just, humane, and consistent with national self-interest. By identifying personal vulnerabiliti...

Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation

This research explores the effects of various training settings on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for spoken language. Various elements of the TED, Europarl, and OPUS parallel text corpora were used as the basis for training of language models, for development, tuning and testing of the translation system. The BLEU, NIST, METEOR and TER metrics were used to evaluate ...