Shankar Munusamy, Jussara M. do Carmo, Jonathan P. Hosler and John E. Hall 3 4 Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, and Mississippi Center 5 for Obesity Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA, and the 6 College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar 7 8 Running head: Obesity and Kidney Mitochondrial Dysfunction 9 10 Address for cor...

We employ a nonlinear, nonparametric method to model the stochastic behavior of changes in several short and long term U.S. interest rates. We apply a nonlinear autoregression to the series using the locally weighted regression (LWR) estimation method, a nearest-neighbor method, and evaluate the forecasting performance with a measure of root mean square error (RMSE). We compare the forecasting ...

Assessing land use change and its impacts on ecosystem services is of great significance for optimizing management enhancing sustainability. This study explores changes their five typical services, namely grain production (GP), water yield (WY), soil conservation (SC), habitat quality (HQ), carbon sequestration (CS), during 1990–2020 using the Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Trade-offs ...

Abstract Aim To improve the safety of tracheostomy and laryngectomy patients within a UK-based regional head neck unit. Method This audit was conducted against standards taken from National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP). Inclusion criteria were all with or on ward, there no exclusion criteria. Data collected per inpatient episode for one month period pre- post- implementation each interven...