This study aimed to analyse the spatial distribution of human (2007-2013) and canine (2013) visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the city of Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and identify the socio-environmental factors related to their occurrence. The spatial distribution of human and canine cases was analysed by kernel density estimation (KDE) and the K function. The KDE values were analysed for corre...

Abstract: Biological networks are often described as probabilistic graphs in the context of gene and protein sequence analysis in molecular biology. Microarrays and proteomics technologies facilitate the monitoring of expression levels over thousands of biological units over time. Several experimental efforts have appeared aiming to unveiling pairwise interactions, with many graphical models be...

This thesis presents methods, techniques and tools for developing three-dimensional representations of tactical intelligence assessments. Techniques from GIScience are combined with crime mapping methods. The range of methods applied in this study provides spatiotemporal GIS analysis as well as 3D geovisualisation and GIS programming. The work presents methods to enhance digital three-dimension...

The principles behind the agile development methods and common practise within the Open Source community are vastly different. In recent years there has been a rise of interest in these, in order to detect and inform on areas of compatible shared practises. This paper argues that it is possible to quantify the level of agility displayed by Open Source projects. An indicator of agility, the Mean...

An integrated computational method which couples classical molecular dynamics simulations with density functional theory calculations is used to simulate the solid-state NMR spectra of amorphous CaSiO(3). Two CaSiO(3) glass models are obtained by shell-model molecular dynamics simulations, successively relaxed at the GGA-PBE level of theory. The calculation of the NMR parameters (chemical shiel...

Western models of public relations tend to dominate the discipline, but the efficiency of such models in light of global public relations and the richness of alternative – particularly South East Asian – approaches will be interrogated in this paper. There are few scholars who take a critical approach to public relations practice, or consider the significance and practice of public relations in...

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Control charts have been used effectively for years to monitor processes and detect abnormal behaviors. However, most control charts require a specific distribution to establish their control limits. The bootstrap method is a nonparametric technique that does not rely on the assumption of a parametric distribution of the observed data. Although the bootstrap technique has been used to develop u...

In many algorithms for background modeling, a distribution over feature values is modeled at each pixel. These models, however, do not account for the dependencies that may exist among nearby pixels. The joint domain-range kernel density estimate (KDE) model by Sheikh and Shah [7], which is not a pixel-wise model, represents the background and foreground processes by combining the three color d...

Čeští žáci dopadli v mezinárodním testování úrovně jejich dovedností a znalostí PISA 2009, do kterého se zapojilo 65 zemí z celého světa, opět hůř než v předchozích letech. Výsledky, které ministerstvo školství zveřejnilo na konci loňského roku ukázaly, že čeští žáci dosáhli v oblasti čtenářské gramotnosti, na niž byl v posledním testování kladen důraz, pouze podprůměrných výsledků. Zároveň se ...