In this chapter, we summarize the results of the five-loop calculations for the power series expansions of the renormalization constants governing the relations between bare and renormalized parameters. These expansions were first calculated more than 15 years ago [1]. Several errors were corrected in a more recent recalculation [2]. An essential error had occurred in diagram No.116 (see page 4...

Background The new global target for maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is a ratio below 70 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births by 2030. We undertook a systematic review of methods used to measure MMR in low- and middle-income countries. Sources of data Systematic review of the literature; 59 studies included. Areas of agreement Civil registration (5 studies), census (5) and surveys (16), R...

Extending work by Lodaya and Weil, we propose a model of branching automata with costs in which the calculation of the cost of a parallel composition is handled differently from the calculation of the cost of a sequential composition. Our main result characterizes the behavior of these automata in the spirit of Kleene’s and Schützenberger’s theorems. The technical report [12] that this extended...

This paper studied the correlative fluctuation between two different futures markets, and developed an analysis system on .net platform to realize the prediction of price fluctuation. In this system, we explored the computing technology with mathematical programming language R, and integrated it with .net platform, thereof making the calculation precise and convenient. Test by this system has s...

The instability of ethnicity measured in the national census is found to have doubled from the period 1991-2001 to the period 2001-2011, using the Longitudinal Study that links a sample of individuals' census records across time. From internal evidence and comparison with results from the Census Quality Survey and the Labour Force Survey, estimates are made of instability due to changing questi...

When the number of disks rises in disk array systems that contain multiple disk drives, system performance is limited by a bottleneck at a centralized controller and/or at a communication path that uses a bus. We evaluate, through simulation, a scalable architecture called DR-net, in which the controller functions are distributed to all disk drives and each disk has autonomy in processing its t...

Overview (Re)insurance premium calculation Net premium principle Wang's premium principle applied to excess-of-loss reinsurance setting Extreme value statistics Motivation Extreme value theory (first order framework) Estimating reinsurance premiums Finite sample behavior Simulated data (Fréchet, Burr) Reinsurance premiums (net premium, dual-power transform) X non-negative random variable denoti...