Physical Fitness Index (PFI), of fifty Residential (Sainik) School children (Mean +/- SD, 13.18 +/- 0.48 yrs) and forty four Non-Residential school children (Mean +/- SD, 13.15 +/- 0.66 yrs) of Bijapur, Karnataka, was assessed by Harvard Step Test. Their height (cm), weight (kg), chest circumference (cm), and mid arm circumference (cm) were recorded as physical anthropometry. Body Mass Index (B...

This paper examines risk-averse and risk-seeking investor preferences for oil spot and futures prices by using the mean-variance (MV) criterion and stochastic dominance (SD) approach. The MV findings cannot distinguish between the preferences of spot and futures markets. However, the SD tests show that spot dominates futures in the downside risk, while futures dominate spot in the upside profit...

Quality of life index (Quality Of Well-Being [QWB]) was used to calculate the costs per quality of well year (QWY) in total hip arthroplasty (THA) and compare it to other interventions. Ninety-eight primary and/or revision THA were reviewed. Patients had minimum 1-year follow-up. Quality of life index was used to calculate the costs per QWY in primary and revision THA. Preoperative QWB for prim...

SUMMARY Consider a regression problem in which there are many more explanatory variables than data points, i.e., p >> n. Essentially, without reducing the number of variables inference is impossible. So, we group the p explanatory variables into blocks by clustering, evaluate statistics on the blocks and then regress the response on these statistics under a penalized error criterion to obtain e...

In many computer-implemented signal-processing systems, it is necessary to perform numerical integrations. If the function to be integrated is a band-limited time signal represented by a set of samples, serious distortion can occur if the wrong integration technique is used. In particular, if the integration is used to calculate a Fourier transform, large error sidelobes will be introduced if S...

Phylogenetic methods are becoming part of the standard methodologies used in the analyses of biological sequence data, but several of the classical tools of phylogenetic inference were not designed with high throughput applications in mind. During our surveys, we haven't found software for the fast inference of neighbor joining trees from sequence alignments which could use biologically realist...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui adanya pengaruh hasil belajar IPA dengan menggunakan model pembelajaran kooperatif type Index Card Match pada siswa kelas IV SDN Jatiwaringin III Pondok Gede semester 2 tahun ajaran 2018-2019. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kuantitatif desain Posttest-Only Control Design. Sampling teknik sampling Non Probability yaitu jenuh. Pada uji val...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to present epidemiological parameters of caries prevalence in children and adolescents in index age groups on a national and regional level in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted during 2004 year for children aged 6 and 12, and during 2007 for adolescents aged 15. An oral health survey was performed on a total number o...

It has been suggested that the current dietary recommendations (low-fat-high-carbohydrate diet) may promote the intake of sugar and highly refined starches which could have adverse effects on the metabolic risk profile. We have investigated the short-term (6-d) nutritional and metabolic effects of an ad libitum low-glycaemic index-low-fat-high-protein diet (prepared according to the Montignac m...