Background Human speech is the wonderful gift given to human being by God for communicating their ideas, needs and feelings. But an inability to speak, no matter temporary can be catastrophic for the patients in tertiary care. Some patients in tertiary care units may be communication compromised due to various reasons. A quasi experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of vi...

Large survey data are often accompanied by sampling weights that reflect the inequality probabilities for selecting samples in complex sampling. Sampling weights act as an expansion factor that, by scaling the subjects, turns the sample into a representative of the community. The quasi-maximum likelihood method is one of the approaches for considering sampling weights in the frequentist framewo...

Quasi-set theory is a theory for dealing with collections of indistinguishable objects. In this paper we discuss some logical and philosophical questions involved with such a theory. The analysis of these questions enable us to provide the first grounds of a possible new view of physical reality, founded on an ontology of non-individuals, to which quasi-set theory may constitute the logical basis.

The paper studies some properties of the ring of integer-valued quasi-polynomials. On this ring, theory of generalized Euclidean division and generalized GCD are presented. Applications to finite simple continued fraction expansion and Smith normal form of integral matrices with integer parameters are also given.

We investigate the dynamical behavior in the large scale region of non-equilibrium systems , by employing data on the assessed value of land in 1983 – 2006 Japan. In the system we find the detailed quasi-balance, which has the symmetry: x 1 ↔ a x 2 θ (x 1 and x 2 are two successive land prices). By using the detailed quasi-balance and Gibrat's law, we derive Pareto's law with varying Pareto ind...

We present a game-theoretic account of irrational agent behavior and define conditions under which irrational behavior may be considered quasi-rational. To do so, we use a 2-player, zero-sum strategic game, parameterize the reward structure and study how the value of the game changes with this parameter. We argue that for any “underdog” agent, there is a point at which the asymmetry of the game...

Under certain conditions, we give an estimate from above on the number of differential equations of order r+1 with prescribed regular singular points, prescribed exponents at singular points, and having a quasi-polynomial flag of solutions. The estimate is given in terms of a suitable weight subspace of the tensor power U(n−) , where n is the number of singular points in C and U(n−) is the enve...

We describe a method for computing the highest degree coefficients of a weighted Ehrhart quasi-polynomial for a rational simple polytope.

In this note the stability of a second-order quasi-polynomial with a single delay is studied. Although there is a vast literature on this problem, most available solutions are limited to some particular cases. Moreover, some published results on this subject appear to contain imprecise, or even wrong, conditions. The purpose of this note is to show that by accurate application of known theories...

In investigating homotopy equivalences of smooth G-manifolds where G is a compact Lie group, Pétrie [3], [4], [5] makes use of proper G-maps of degree 1 from one G-module to another of the same complex dimension. The first nontrivial example of such a map, called a quasi-equivalence, was given by Pétrie [6] for two-dimensional S -modules. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of...