This paper presents a Poisson control chart for monitoring time series of counts typically arising in the surveillance of infectious diseases. The in-control mean is assumed to be time-varying and linear on the log-scale with intercept and seasonal components. If a shift in the intercept occurs the system goes out-of-control. Novel is that the magnitude of the shift does not have to be specifie...

Electromagnetic information leak as a potential data security risk is more and more serious. Discussing the relationship between compromising emanations and Hamming distance is directed to preventing or reducing the electromagnetic information leakage. The paper presents the model of electromagnetic information leak, then the hierarchical protection strategy based on the model is proposed, that...

An intercept mission with nuclear explosives is the only practical mitigation option against the most probable impact threat of near-Earth objects (NEOs) with a short warning time (e.g., much less than 10 years). Although a less destructive, standoff nuclear explosion can be employed in such a last minute intercept mission, the momentum/energy transfer created by a shallow subsurface nuclear ex...

Explicit expressions for the non-singlet and singlet structure functions g1 at the small x-region are obtained. They include the total resummation of doublelogarithmic contributions and accounting for the running QCD coupling effects. We predict that asymptotically the singlet g1 ∼ x−∆S , with the intercept ∆S = 0.86, which is approximately twice larger than the non-singlet intercept ∆NS = 0.4....

Random intercept model and random intercept & random slope model carrying two-levels of hierarchy in the population are presented and compared with the traditional regression approach. The impact of students’ satisfaction on their grade point average (GPA) was explored with and without controlling teachers influence. The variation at level-1 can be controlled by introducing the higher levels of...

It follows from equation (1) that when l/u is plotted (usually as the ordinate) against l/s a straight line will be obtained with inhibitory action influencing either the slope or the ordinate intercept or both. Thus the type of inhibition may be defined on the basis of the effect of the inhibitory action upon the slope and intercept in the above plot. In the absence of an inhibitor (i = 0) equ...

Peak velocity and peak acceleration of disaccommodation step responses remain invariant of response magnitude for a constant starting position and they increase linearly with proximity of starting position. This suggests that disaccommodation response is initiated towards an initial (default) destination and is switched mid-flight to attain the desired final destination. The dioptric location o...

Using the FreeStyle blood glucose monitor that measures glucose in a 0.3 μl blood sample, blood from the fingertip and blood from the forearm were measured for glucose concentration. There was a difference in glucose concentration between these sites. A linear regression of glucose measurements from the arm versus those from the finger in blood samples from diabetic patients taken at random tim...