This paper presents six Resilience and Sustainability (RST) contribution agreements finalized with contributors between December 2022 March 2023 including an existing agreement that was amended restated. The concluded provide for contributions in a total amount of about SDR 9.5 billion across the three RST accounts – loan account, deposit reserve account. new members add critical resources supp...

We present a hierarchical extension of the Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) model for open population capture-recapture data. In addition to recaptures of marked animals, we model first captures of animals and losses on capture. The parameter set includes capture probabilities, survival rates, and birth rates. The survival rates and birth rates are treated as a random sample from a bivariate distribut...

Anil N Makam ([email protected]) Holly J Lanham ([email protected]) Kim Batchelor ([email protected]) Lipika Samal ([email protected]) Brett Moran ([email protected]) Temple Howell-Stampley ([email protected]) Lynne Kirk ([email protected]) Manjula Cherukuri ([email protected]) Noel Santini ([email protected]) Luci ...

Little attention has been paid to the use of multi-sample batch-marking studies, as it is generally assumed that an individual's capture history is necessary for fully efficient estimates. However, recently, Huggins et al. (2010) present a pseudo-likelihood for a multi-sample batch-marking study where they used estimating equations to solve for survival and capture probabilities and then derive...

A comparison is made between the automated reagin test (ART) using Technicon AutoAnalyzer equipment and the reagin screen test (RST) introduced by Lederle using a new antigen formulation. Treponemal haemagglutination tests (TPHA) were done simultaneously as second screen tests. The absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody test (FTA-ABS) was used in all seropositive cases. Altogether 1154 sera w...

population and density estimate of black rat in mangrove forests was conducted by two independent procedures, including seber-jolly and catch-effort methods. a selected trapping area with 15 hectares was studied. first, 60 cage traps for seber-jolly and then 80 cage traps for catch-effort method installed in the trapping area. we used color earrings and numerical rings for marking the captured ...

A 40-year-old HIV-positive man was evaluated for fatigue, weakness, fever, and cough. He was not taking any medications. His blood count showed normocytic anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia (hemoglobin 85.0 g/L, mean corpuscular volume 99 fL, white blood cell count 1.9 109/L, platelets 50 109/L). His CD4 count was 0.05 109/L. Other laboratory tests showed normal B12, folate, thyroid, and ...