nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. this study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in south western, nigeria. a random multistage sampling was employed for the study. ekiti and osun states were randomly selected from the six states in south-western nigeria. this was followed by random selection of two l...

Scott and Smith (1969) develop estimators for linear functions from a two stage cluster sample, with their discussion repeated in many places. This discussion was reviewed in c01ed13.doc. It is note-worthy that Scott and Smith allow expressions for the variance to depend on the cluster. A similar development is given by Vallient et al.. We repeated the derivation of Vallient et al using the fin...

In this paper, we aim to detect human in video over large viewpoint changes which is very challenging due to the diversity of human appearance and motion from a wide spread of viewpoint domain compared with a common frontal viewpoint. We propose 1) a new feature called Intra-frame and Inter-frame Comparison Feature to combine both appearance and motion information, 2) an Enhanced Multiple Clust...

Background: This study aims to investigate the association between mental health literacy and the mental health status, particularly depression, among adolescents. Methods: This was a population-based health survey utilising a two-stage sampling technique. Mental health literacy was measured by the Australian National Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Youth Survey with the depression vignette o...

The purpose of this study was to develop a “teachers’ self-efficacy scale for high school physical education teachers (TSES-HSPET)” in Taiwan. This scale is based on the self-efficacy theory of Bandura [1], [2]. This study used exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to test the reliability and validity. The participants were high school physical education teachers in Taiwan. Both stratifi...

Processing metabolomic liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC/MS) data files is time consuming. Currently available R tools allow for only a limited number of processing steps and online tools are hard to use in a programmable fashion. This paper introduces the metabolite automatic identification toolkit MAIT package, which allows users to perform endto-end LC/MS metabolomic data analy...

The surface affinity of the hydronium ion in water is investigated with umbrella sampling and classical molecular dynamics simulations, in which the system is described with the effective fragment potential (EFP). The solvated hydronium ion is also explored using second order perturbation theory for the hydronium ion and the empirical TIP5P potential for the waters. Umbrella sampling is used to...

PURPOSE To design a computer-aided detection (CADe) system for clustered microcalcifications in reconstructed digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) volumes and to perform a preliminary evaluation of the CADe system. METHODS IRB approval and informed consent were obtained in this study. A data set of two-view DBT of 72 breasts containing microcalcification clusters was collected from 72 subjects ...