Abstract In our paper [18] we introduced a special kind of k-width junction tree, called k-th order t-cherry junction tree in order to approximate a joint probability distribution. The approximation is the best if the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the true joint probability distribution and the approximating one is minimal. Finding the best approximating k-width junction tree is NP-comple...

BACKGROUND This study aim to determine the association between height and cancer in the children aged 14 years at the time of diagnosis in Rasht, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, height of patients with a malignancy (≤14) at the time of diagnosis measured in the standard charts of United States National Center for the Health Statistics (NCHS). Data were reported by d...

OBJECTIVE To examine racial/ethnic disparities in medication adherence between Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and Whites. METHODS This retrospective data analysis included diabetes patients enrolled in a health plan in Hawaii (N = 43,445). For anti-diabetic, lipid-lowering, and anti-hypertensive medications, quantile regression was estimated at 25(th), 50(th), and 75(th) quantiles to ex...

BACKGROUND Preterm infants are at risk for neonatal morbidity, transiently reduced thyroid hormone (TH) levels, and impaired visual abilities. To determine the interrelationship between these factors, we measured TH levels in the period ex utero and compared their visual abilities with those of term infants at 6 months (corrected) of age. METHODS The preterm group consisted of 62 infants stra...

The aim of the study was to review the operative experiences of emergency hysterectomy for life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) performed over a 12-year period at Fujian Provincial Maternity and Children's Hospital; to examine the incidence and risk factors for emergency obstetric hysterectomy; and to evaluate the curative effectiveness and safety of subtotal hysterectomy for life-threa...

Some topics related to Standard Model Higgs boson physics at the Large Hadron Collider are reviewed. Emphasis is put on an overview of QCD corrections to Higgs boson decay and production processes. CERN-TH/95-77 March 1995 Invited talk presented at the XXXth Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs 1800, March 19-26, 1995; to appear in the proceedings of the conference Electronic mail addresses: grauden...

We describe how to construct solutions to 11-dimensional supergravity corresponding to M5-branes wrapped on holomorphic 2-cycles embedded in C. These solutions preserve N = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. In the near-horizon limit they are expected to be dual to N = 1 large N gauge theories in four dimensions by Maldacena’s duality. USITP-00-19 DTP/00/111 hep-th/0012194 email: brinne@physto...