BACKGROUND Over two thirds of women who need contraception in Uganda lack access to modern effective methods. This study was conducted to estimate the potential cost-effectiveness of achieving universal access to modern contraceptives in Uganda by implementing a hypothetical new contraceptive program (NCP) from both societal and governmental (Ministry of Health (MoH)) perspectives. METHODOLOG...

The published experiments with shallow parsing for Slavic languages are characterised with small size of the corpora used. With the publication of the National Corpus of Polish (NCP), a new opportunity was opened: to test several chunking algorithms on the 1-million token manually annotated subcorpus of the NCP. We test three Machine Learning techniques: Decision Tree induction, Memory-Based Le...

We construct many pairs of smoothly embedded complex curves with the same genus and self-intersection number in the rational complex surfaces CP 2#nCP 2 with the property that no self-diffeomorphism of CP 2#nCP 2 sends one to the other. In particular, as a special case we answer a question originally posed by R. Gompf (1995) concerning genus two curves of selfintersection number 0 in CP 2#13CP .

N-confused porphyrin (NCP) undergoes controlled regioselective phosphorylations at the inner, outer or both carbon atoms of the inverted pyrrole ring. Reactivity centered at the internal carbon atom is enhanced in the Ag(III) NCP's whereas the preference for perimeter substitution is characteristic of free base NCP. The addition of S(8) resulted in the formation of thio-derivatives containing 2...

Net community production (NCP) and carbon to nutrient uptake ratios were studied during a large-scale mesocosm experiment on ocean acidification in Kongsfjorden, western Svalbard, during June–July 2010. Nutrient depleted fjord water with natural plankton assemblages, enclosed in nine mesocosms of ∼ 50 m3 in volume, was exposed to pCO2 levels ranging initially from 185 to 1420 μatm. NCP estimati...

We consider a regularization proximal method with variable metric to solve the nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP ) for P0functions. We establish global convergence properties when the solution set is non empty and bounded. Furthermore, we prove, without boundedness of the solution set, that the sequence generated by the algorithm is a minimizing sequence for the implicit Lagrangian functio...

2 On December 11, 1980 the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, creating the federal gov-ernment's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. It quickly became clear, however, that the new Superfund program could not address all of the hazardous waste disposal sites being discovere...

Introduced by Chen and Fukushima in 2005, expected residual minimization (ERM) has become an established approach to complementarity problems under stochastic uncertainty. NCP and merit functions allow to recast deterministic complementarity problems as optimization problems, where the objective function is the total residual. Based on this reformulation, the risk neutral ERM formulation aims t...

In this article we try to discuss nonparametric linkage (NPL) score functions within a broad and quite general framework. The main focus of the paper is the structure, derivation principles and interpretations of the score function entity itself. We define and discuss several families of one-locus score function definitions, i.e. the implicit, explicit and optimal ones. Some generalizations and...

We estimated rates of production and export in the South Pacific (80uW to 180uW in a zonal band between 35uS and 50uS) using 1.5 yr of oxygen measurements from profiling floats. Export production, calculated from oxygen utilization rates below the compensation depth from December to April, was 10.7 6 2 mmol C m22 d21 (n 5 36, 95% CI). The corresponding satellite net primary production was 46 6 ...