The goal of nowcasting, or “predicting the present,” is to estimate up-to-date values for a time series whose actual observations are available only with a delay. Methods for this task leverage observations of correlated time series to estimate values of the target series. This paper introduces a nowcasting technique called FDR (false discovery reduction) that combines tractable variable select...

involve medical issues, and there are many traps for the unwary, particularly when the quality of the medical care is at issue. Virtually without exception, any injury case with substantial damages will become entangled with medical issues. There will always be issues of how to maximize the economic damages, usually dependent on numerous, sophisticated medical analyses. If medical malfeasance i...

a 3-month-old male german shepherd dog was referred with depression, vomition, hemorrhagic diarrhea, abdominal pain, anorexia and dehydration. the affected dog did not have any history of vaccination. despite treatment, the animal died within 2 days after the onset of clinical signs. gross examination of tissues showed hemorrhages (ecchymoses) in the mucosa of the digestive tract. the liver was...

cancer is uncontrolled and unrestricted growth of malignant cells in the body. it is a multifactorial disease which either heredity or environmental factors (such as nutrition, physical inactivity, alcohol, obesity, exposure to sun, environmental pollutants, infections) contribute to the incidence of cancer. in recent years, several lines of research have focused on obesity as a potent risk fac...

Discourses on climate change often characterise African cities as homogenous, experiencing the same events and requiring planning solutions. However, are diverse different across regions, scales, contexts, despite some resemblance of urban problems. This paper addresses generalisation issues responses in by: (i) exploring how impact, specifically flooding is one city terms shaping space; (ii) e...