BACKGROUND Education and wealth may have different associations with female obesity but this has not been investigated in detail outside high-income countries. This study examines the separate and inter-related associations of education and household wealth in relation to obesity in women in a representative sample of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS The seven largest nationa...

<span lang="EN-US">Gender and ethnicity classifications are a long-standing challenge in the face recognition’s field. They key-demographic traits of individuals applied real-world applications such as biometric demographic research, human-computer interaction (HCI), law enforcement online advertisements. Thus, many methods have been proposed to address gender or/and race achieved various...

65 Conventional wisdom suggests ethnic inequality predicts civil war onset. Stewart suggests that when individual selfesteem is bound up with ethnic identity, ethnic inequality produces grievances that lead to mobilization and civil war. However, recent cross-national studies have been inconclusive due to methodological problems (Fearon J & Laitin D, working paper presented at APSA 1999). Altho...

Customer relationship management (CRM) aims to build relations with the most profitable clients by performing customer segmentation and designing appropriate marketing tools. In addition, customer profitability accounting (CPA) recommends evaluating the CRM program through the combination of partial measures in a global cost–benefit function. Several statistical techniques have been applied for...

Objective To find lower and upper bounds of HIV prevalence in Malawi under mild and intuitive assumptions to assess the importance of the refusal issue in the estimation of HIV prevalence. Methods We derive bounds based on the following two key assumptions: (i) Among those who have never taken an HIV test before, those who refuse to take an HIV test (hereafter “refusers”) have at least as much ...

Age of the couples is one of the most basic and important information collected in almost all demographic and health surveys. This particular study makes an attempt in exploring the extent of age difference and the change over time among the couples in India. It also analyses the impact of other socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors in explaining the variation in age difference among...

hyperspectral sensors provide a large number of spectral bands. this massive and complex data structure of hyperspectral images presents a challenge to traditional data processing techniques. therefore, reducing the dimensionality of hyperspectral images without losing important information is a very important issue for the remote sensing community. we propose to use overlap-based feature weigh...