Peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a renal replacement therapy (RRT) has become wide spread since its inception more than twenty-five years back. Since then, several advances have been made and PD has been accepted as an alternative therapy to hemodialysis (HD), with excellent survival, lower cost, and improved quality of life. In spite of comparable survival of HD and PD, improved PD techniques over ...

We study the influence of the delay time in the response of a delayed feedback system to external periodic driving. The nonlinear system we consider is a semiconductor laser with optical feedback operating in the low-frequency fluctuation regime. We numerically examine the consequences of varying the external cavity length of the system when a weak modulation is introduced through the laser's p...

This paper examines the labor market value of the GED for females, questioning two implicit assumptions that have been employed in earlier studies. We show that providing access to work experience may be a critical mechanism through which education credentials impart labor market value and that the labor market value of the GED credential depends on the skills with which dropouts left school. O...

In this study we hypothesize that variations in state welfare policies in the reform era may affect adolescents through two mechanisms. A competing labor market hypothesis posits that stringent state welfare policies may reduce adolescent employment. A signaling hypothesis posits that stringent welfare policies may promote enrollment. To test these hypotheses, we use a dynamic joint model of ad...

Longitudinal data analysis in the field of substance abuse studies commonly has two related problems: large numbers of repeated measures and incomplete data matrices. These problems are critical because the structures and mechanisms of the missing data are usually more complicated than other longitudinal studies with fewer repeated measures. For an incomplete longitudinal data set, different lo...

Solar Orbiter, a joint ESA/NASA mission, is studying the Sun and inner heliosphere in greater detail than ever before. Launched February 2020, Orbiter has already completed its first three orbits, reaching perihelia of 0.5 au from June August 2021. During 2 years orbit, observed multiple 3 He-rich Energetic Particle (SEP) events inside 1 au. Even though these were small, their spectral forms, H...

School dropout is a major problem as it has negative impacts that result in high social costs. A learner can be called when the fails to enroll school despite having reached mandatory age. This paper aims identify root causes of dropouts Philippines, specifically all regions for years 2008 and 2013. The secondary data on proportion population 6 24 old who are not attending from website Philippi...