Method for El Nino/Southern Oscillation: ENSO by means of wavelet based data compression with appropriate support length of base function is proposed. Through the experiments with observed southern oscillation index, the proposed method is validated. Also a method for determination of appropriate support length is proposed and is validated. KeywordsPrediction; Time series analysis; wavelet; ENS...

The objective of this study is to quantify the nature of the mechanisms of southern Africa rainfall variability, unrelated to the El Nino Southern Oscillation, by means of a simple empirical composite analysis, as a baseline for a more detailed study.

OBJECTIVE Individual meta-analyses were conducted for six training methods as part of a U.S. Army basic research project. The objective was to identify evidence-based guidelines for the effectiveness of each training method, under different moderating conditions, for cognitive skill transfer in adult learning. Results and implications for two of these training methods, learner control (LC) and ...

OBJECTIVE to describe acute and chronic pain from the perspective of the life cycle. METHODS participants: 861 people in pain. The Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale (MPES) was used. RESULTS in the category estimation method the highest descriptors of chronic pain for children/ adolescents were "Annoying" and for adults "Uncomfortable". The highest descriptors of acute pain for children...

In a recent Editorial for this journal, El-Jardali and Fadlallah proposed a new framework for Knowledge Translation (KT) in healthcare. Many such frameworks already exist; thus, new entrants to the field must be scrutinized in regard to their unique contributions to advancing understanding and practice. The El-Jardali and Fadlallah framework focuses on policy-level discussions, a relatively und...

The purpose of this study has been the development of an adequate methodology for the quality control of Phyllanthus niruri aqueous extracts. The assay method was tested, with various modifications, to determine its suitability for the quantitative determination of total flavonoids within the crude drug raw material and aqueous extracts. The assay technique for such chemical group is based on t...

Submitted for the TSF12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Detection and Monitoring of Neurotransmitters a Spectroscopic Analysis1 FELICIA MANCIU, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, KENDALL LEE, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, WILLIAM DURRER, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, KEVIN BENNET, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN — In this work we demonstrate the capability of confocal...

U-statistics generalizes the concept of mean of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables and is widely utilized in many estimating and testing problems. The standard empirical likelihood (EL) for U-statistics is computationally expensive because of its nonlinear constraint. The jackknife empirical likelihood method largely relieves computation burden by circumventing the co...