From the time immemorial coconut bunches were harvested at two monthly intervals. In general two such bunches are harvested at a given harvest. However on the average a coconut bunch matures more or less every month. If these could be harvested at monthly intervals without any adverse effect on the nuts there will be several benefits. These are availability of nuts over the months, savings on m...

Auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models have been widely used to calculate monthly time series data formed by interannual variations of monthly data or inter-monthly variation. However, the influence brought about by inter-monthly variations within each year is often ignored. An improved ARIMA model is developed in this study accounting for both the interannual and inter-monthl...

Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated even...

Objectives: To investigate the monthly number of prescribed medication (NPM) patterns among different elderly populations and the factors associated with monthly NPM changes. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted using the databases obtained from National Health Insurance Research Databases and a 2000-bed academic medical center in Taiwan (i.e., single-center cohort). We compar...

Accurate modeling and forecasting monthly electricity consumption are the keys to optimizing energy management and planning. This paper examines the seasonal characteristics of electricity consumption in Hong Kong—a subtropical city with 7 million people. Using the data from January 1970 to December 2014, two novel nonlinear seasonal models for electricity consumption in the residential and com...

THE Bureau of Economic Analysis has adopted a new method for the interpolation of quarterly and monthly estimates in the national accounts. The new method uses a variant of the Denton procedure. National statistical agencies routinely face the task of compiling a large number of quarterly and monthly estimates using relatively complete annual data and less complete quarterly and monthly informa...

BACKGROUND Long-acting injectable formulations of antipsychotics are treatment alternatives to oral agents. AIMS To assess the efficacy of aripiprazole once-monthly compared with oral aripiprazole for maintenance treatment of schizophrenia. METHOD A 38-week, double-blind, active-controlled, non-inferiority study; randomisation (2:2:1) to aripiprazole once-monthly 400 mg, oral aripiprazole (...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a chronic disease that requires long-term management with antipsychotics; however, an important barrier to the success of long-term treatment is drug noncompliance, which increases the risk of recurrence and hospitalization. Second-generation long-acting injectable antipsychotics have improved drug adherence, and the pharmacological effects of the drugs, and therefor...

Monthly composites of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Indices (NDVI), derived from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVILRR), were transformed linearly into monthly evaporation rates and compared with detailed hydrologic-model simulation results for five watersheds across the United States. Model-simulated monthly evapora...

accurate forecasting of streamflows has been one of the most important issues as it plays a key role in allotment of water resources. river flow simulations to determine the future river flows are important and practical. given the importance of flow in the coming years, in this research three stations: haji qooshan, ghare shoor and tamar in gorganrood cachment were simulated in 2002-2011. to s...