Recent studies demonstrate increasing rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) as well disproportionate frequencies amongst racial minorities, with black women consistently having the highest proportion SMM. Area deprivation index (ADI), a nationally used composite measure neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, is associated multimorbidity including adverse pregnancy outcomes. We sought to ex...

We compute the index of the inclusions of type III1/2 factors arising from endomorphisms of the Cuntz algebra O2 associated to the rank-two permutation matrices. MSC 2000: 46L37, 46L05

The financial crisis has fueled interest in alternatives to traditional asset classes that might be less affected by large market gyrations and, thus, provide for a less volatile development of a portfolio. One attempt at selecting stocks that are less prone to extreme risks, is obeyance of Islamic Sharia rules. In this light, we investigate the statistical properties of the Dow Jones Islamic S...

A pairwise clustering approach is applied to the analysis of the Dow Jones index companies, in order to identify similar temporal behavior of the traded stock prices. To this end, the chaotic map clustering algorithm is used, where a map is associated to each company and the correlation coefficients of the financial time series are associated to the coupling strengths between maps. The simulati...

This paper discusses the use of fuzzy logic and modeling as a decision making support for long-term investment decisions on financial markets. A simple model is proposed to calculate recommendations for the investors. This research required thorough analysis of historical data that lead to discovery of interesting dependencies between the Dow Jones index, currency pairs, oil price and the VIX v...

For each k ≥ 2, we exhibit infinite families of prime k-component links with Jones polynomial equal to that of the k-component unlink.

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The El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) maintained its warm state through the austral spring of 2002, however the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) remained only weakly negative, with values of –7.6, –7.4 and –6.0 for September, October and November respectively. This resulted in a seasonal mean SOI of –7.0, an increase of 1.5 since the winter season (Jones 2003). The SOI for spring (arguably)...