Spatial crime analysis relies not only on accurate geocoding but also the achievement of a high level of geocoding success. Geocoding is the task of converting locations, such as the addresses of burglary victims, into grid coordinates and is a task performed regularly by many crime analysts. Data sources include police offence and incident databases where the quality of geographical references...

A significant problem with most field dental units is that their suction is too weak to effectively remove debris from the mouth. The purpose of this study was to determine the minimum clinically acceptable suction level for routine dentistry. A vacuum pump was connected to a high-volume dental evacuation line in a simulated clinical setting and different suction airflow rates were evaluated by...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to examine secular trends and determinants of changes in complementary feeding indicators in Nigeria. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Data on 79 953 children aged 6-23 months were obtained from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) for the period spanning 2003-2013. The surveys used a stratified two-stage cluster sample of eligible mothers aged 15-49 yea...

The chemical policies of the 1970s were limited by the assumptions that lie at their foundation and focused narrowly on only the most hazardous chemicals. The effective management of chemicals requires policies that focus on the entire body of chemicals and the production systems that make them. The future will require comprehensive chemicals policies that work within a systems framework to pha...

The present study analyzes the results of 2001 survey of 81 CFOs of bt-500 companies and her most valuable PSUs in India to find out the determinants of the dividend policy decisions of the corporate India. It uses factor analytic framework on the CFOs' responses to capture the determinants of the dividend policy of corporate India. Most of the firms have target dividend payout ratio and divide...

this notion by saying client (i, r) has a minimally acceptable adaptivity parameter ai,r, which can be interpreted as a client’s individual QoS requirement. To emphasize this distinction between provider and client definitions of minimally acceptable stream resolutions, consider the example of a content provider offering a certain media stream with adaptivity a and maximum subscription level s....

This thesis is concerned with an agent in a financial market who wishes to trade between day t = 0 and day t = τ . The agent starts with a specific objective in mind, which defines a class of acceptable (random) financial positions at the end of day τ . He wants to determine an initial amount and a self-financing trading strategy which will turn the discounted terminal value of his portfolio ac...