Method A prospective, cross-sectional, quantitative study, with comparison groups, carried out between June-August 2012 included 207 users of the Family Health Unit Finch Low, divided into three groups according to Results of glycated hemoglobin, analyzed by standard American Diabetes Association. The sample was divided into three groups as users were diabetic treated in the unit (group A=53); ...

Small-scale and large-scale variations of signal amplitude for wideband data collected at two office buildings have been investigated. The data base includes 12000 impulse response estimates which were obtained by inverse Fourier transforming of the channel's frequency response profiles. Extensive curve fitting for the distribution of individual multipath components' amplitudes using elaborate ...

Automated vehicle counting technology has been in use for many years, but developments in automated pedestrian counting technology have been limited. Pedestrians are more difficult to detect, track and count because their paths are much less constrained. In this paper, we present an advanced pedestrian counting system using a stereo camera and a laser scanner. A mapping algorithm has been devel...

The normality of the log-returns for the price of the stocks is one of the most important assumptions in mathematical finance. Usually is assumed that the price dynamics of the stocks are driven by geometric Brownian motion and, in that case, the log-return of the prices are independent and normally distributed. For instance, for the Black-Scholes model and for the Black-Scholes pricing formula...

Recently. ic-X analysis with the “D” value was developed by Ault to detect a minor population of malignant B cells in peripheral blood. This analysis is based on the KolmogorovSmirnov test, and the D value is calculated by a flowcytometer and a computer. We have recently devised a more sensitive parameter for the sc-X analysis than the D value called the .-curve (&c); the #{244}c applies the sa...

We explore the utility of individually selected modulation spectral features for speech and speaker characterization in general, and specifically to prediction of the perceived speaker personality profile. We suggest a method of construction of a sparse feature space and a method of finding the approximately best feature subset for attributing a specific characteristic of speech or speaker. The...

Estimation of Maximum Flood Discharge (MFD) for a given return period is important for planning, design and management of hydraulic structures for the project. This can be achieved through Flood Frequency Analysis (FFA) by fitting of probability distributions to the recorded Annual Maximum Discharge (AMD) data. In this paper, Gamma and Extreme Value family of probability distributions are adopt...

We have assessed the significance of Tully & Verheijen’s (1997) bimodal Ursa Major Cluster spiral galaxy near-infrared surface brightness distribution, focussing on whether this bimodality is simply an artifact of small number statistics. A KolmogorovSmirnov style of significance test shows that the total distribution is fairly represented by a single-peaked distribution, but that their isolate...

Generic side-channel distinguishers aim at revealing the correct key embedded in cryptographic modules even when few assumptions can be made about their physical leakages. In this context, KolmogorovSmirnov Analysis (KSA) and Partial Kolmogorov-Smirnov analysis (PKS) were proposed respectively. Although both KSA and PKS are based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, they really differ a lot from ea...

Existing goodness-of-fit tests for survival data are either exclusively graphical in nature or only test specific model assumptions, such as the proportional hazards assumption. We describe a flexible, parameter-free goodnessof-fit test that provides a simple numerical assessment of a model’s suitability regardless of the structure of the underlying model. Intuitively, the goodnessof-fit test u...