Calculations for a set of nuclear multifragmentation data are made using a Canonical and a Grand Canonical Model. The physics assumptions are identical but the Canonical Model has an exact number of particles, whereas, the Grand Canonical Model has a varying number of particles, hence, is less exact. Interesting differences are found. Typeset using REVTEX 1

A nice feature for a type of models for relations is the possibility to assign to each relation a unique, natural model. Such a model could be regarded as a canonical model for that relation. In this paper we will show that all relations without strict symmetry that can be modeled by positional models, have canonical positional models, but that for some other relations we have reasons to doubt ...

BACKGROUND Access to affordable and effective health care is a challenge in low- and middle- income countries. Out-of-pocket expenditure for health care is a major cause of impoverishment. One way to facilitate access and overcome catastrophic expenditure is through a health insurance mechanism, whereby risks are shared and financial inputs pooled by way of contributions. This study examined fa...

AIMS To assess the care received, compared to national guidelines, and to investigate factors associated with glycaemic control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes attending clinics in Northern Ireland. METHODS An audit of the care provided to all patients attending 11 paediatric diabetes clinics commenced in 2002. A research nurse interviewed 914 patients completing a questionna...

in financial distress studies selection of variable is commonly basedon the success of variables in variable sets employed in earlierbankruptcy studies, suggestions in the literature or an accompanyingdata reduction in a large set of variables. if seemingly different variablesets exhibit a strong relationship then heterogeneous variable setscapture common information. canonical correlation anal...

during the past decade, the world economic forum has published its annual reports in which the global competitiveness index is included. this paper aims to investigate the key factors for achieving an innovation-driven economy. in this paper, we used partial canonical correlation analysis (pcca) to examine the relationships between key pillars in “efficiency enhancers” and “business sophisticat...

Interactive visualisation has been one of the most exciting areas in HCI over recent years. The key term here is 'interactive', and in this paper we assert that virtually any static representation can become more powerful by the addition of simple interactive elements. This is demonstrated by adding interactivity to standard representations including stacked histograms, pie charts and scatter p...