In Global South countries, ageing is an incoming phenomenon with socio-spatial implications that are not much explored yet. North countries already facing trends significant territorial consequences, such as declining populations contribute to making certain areas marginal. However, different factors may determine the marginality of a municipality or region in other settings. Drawing on these p...

In this article, some simple methods for testing and estimating the parameters of some discrete distributions are proposed. For hypothesis testing, a new test is obtained by combining the usual exact test and an alternative exact test. The exact properties of the usual exact test, the alternative exact test and the combined test are evaluated numerically for the binomial and Poisson distributio...

background: little is known about the effects of a low energy dense diet on weight maintenance and cardiovascular risks following a recent weight reduction. therefore, we assessed if weight maintenance, lipid profiles and glycemic control differ between low energy density diet and usual diet consumers following a recent weight reduction. method s: seventy patients with the history of weight red...

background and purpose: highly consumption of antibiotics and their entrance into the environment has increased concerns all over the world. these compounds enter to the environment through an incomplete metabolism and a considerable amount of them cannot be removed using usual waste filtration systems. therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the feasibility of using ultraviolet radia...

Non-minimally coupled scalar field models are well-known for providing interesting cosmological features. These include a late time dark energy behavior, phantom evolution without singularity, an early inflationary universe, scaling solutions, convergence to the standard $\Lambda$CDM, etc. While usual stability analysis helps us determine of model geometrically, bifurcation theory allows precis...

Background Statistical methods to model the usual dietary intake of foods in a population generally ignore the additional information on the never-consumers. The objective of this study is to determine the added value of Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) data allowing distinguishing the never-consumers from the non-consumers while modeling the usual intake distribution. Methods Three food it...

In this paper we specify the conditions on the parameters of pairs of gOS’s under which the corresponding generalized order statistics are ordered according to usual stochastic ordering, hazard rate ordering, likelihood ratio ordering and dispersive ordering. We consider this problem in one-sample as well as two-sample problems. We show that some of the results obtained by Franco et al. ...

— Various model parameter calculation equations of RF CMOS inductors are compared. The calculation equations are using as variables either Y, Z-parameters or S-parameters. Results are based on on-wafer RF S-parameter measurements of a 3.75 turn spiral inductor fabricated in AMIS 0.7 μm CMOS DM1P n-well technology. Results obtained with calculation equations for a differentially driven inductor ...