Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a principally new technique, intended to process various types of non-stationary signals by means of decomposing them into a set of certain functions, called “Intrinsic mode functions” (IMFs) or Empirical modes. This paper is dedicated to a newly developed EMD application to Data Mining, namely, to segmentation and clustering problems. Two new algorithms of...

AIM To explore physician-patient communication practices during the process of obtaining informed consent in a hospital setting in Croatia. METHODS Two hundred and fifty patients (response rate 78%) from five tertiary level hospitals in Zagreb, Croatia, anonymously filled in the questionnaire on informed consent and communication practices by Nemcekova et al in the period from April to Decemb...

Abstract: Non-linear renewal theory is extended to include random walks perturbed by both a slowly changing sequence and a stationary one. Main results include a version of the Key Renewal Theorem, a derivation of the limiting distribution of the excess over a boundary, and an expansion for the expected first passage time. The formulation is motivated by problems in sequential analysis with sta...

Background: The inherited disorders of haemoglobin are the commonest single gene disorder of the world population. Sickle cell anaemia being the most widespread and numerically the most important haemoglobinopathy in the world today. The major features of sickle cell disease (SCD) in most patients are lifelong anaemia and the consequences of recurrent vaso-occlusion. Many complications of SCD i...