Abstract Spindle cell melanoma (SCM) is a rare morphological subtype of melanoma, characterized histologically by atypical, spindled, malignant melanocytes (Weissinger SE, Keil P, Silvers DN et al. A diagnostic algorithm to distinguish desmoplastic from spindle melanoma. Mod Pathol 2014; 27:524–34). SCM often manifests as broad metastatic illness, frequently amelanotic and can arise nearly anyw...

Population control has been a huge policy issue of the twenty first century and has been a topic of discussion in the world’s capitals. Overuse of natural resources, poverty and high mortality rates were the key issues that raised population control. The data used in this study is taken from the 2008/2009 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Kenya. The sample used in this study consists a t...

We use household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 44 surveys (in 35 countries) to document different patterns in the enrollment and attainment of children from rich and poor households. We overcome the lack of income or expenditure data in the DHS by constructing a proxy for long-run wealth of the household from the asset information in the survey using the statist...

Data mining has been widely applied to different areas. For a country with a huge population and household census data, data mining is an ideal approach for analyzing this information. In Taiwan single-parent families, aborigines and the elderly have long been considered disadvantaged social classes, and their widening problems will have a tremendous impact and influence on society. This study ...