Abstract Background This paper critically discusses the use and merits of global indices, in particular, Global Health Security Index (GHSI; Cameron et al. https://www.ghsindex.org/#l-section--map ) times an imminent crisis, such as current pandemic. index ranked 195 countries according to their expected preparedness case a pandemic or other biological threat. The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covi...

the vertex-edge wiener index of a simple connected graph g is defined as the sum of distances between vertices and edges of g. two possible distances d_1(u,e|g) and d_2(u,e|g) between a vertex u and an edge e of g were considered in the literature and according to them, the corresponding vertex-edge wiener indices w_{ve_1}(g) and w_{ve_2}(g) were introduced. in this paper, we present exact form...

This work investigates the effects of voltage and reactive power constraints on composite system reliability indices. Four indices have been used to assess the sensitivity of load curtailments to voltage and reactive power constraints. Further, expressions to evaluate the sensitivity of the severity indices with respect to the voltage and reactive power constraints have been developed. Extensiv...

The preparation of two-component polymer composite nanoparticles encapsulating both Si quantum dots (SiQDs) and Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) by a single step miniemulsion polymerization of divinylbenzene is described. This simple and robust method affords well-defined polymer composite nanoparticles with mean diameters in a range of 100–200 nm and with narrow polydispersity indices as determined by...

During 1996–2006 the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland, MTT Agrifood Research Finland and the Finnish Geodetic Institute carried out a joint remote sensing satellite research project. It evaluated the applicability of composite multispectral SAR and optical satellite data for cereal yield estimations in the annual crop inventory program. Three Vegetation Indices models (VGI, Infra...

Real world applications make heavy use of composite keys to reference entities. Indices over multiple columns are therefore mandatory to achieve response time goals of applications. We describe and evaluate the Composite Group-Key Index for fast tuple retrieval via composite keys from the compressed partition of in-memory column-stores with a main/delta architecture. Composite Group-Keys work d...

BACKGROUND The objective of screening programs is to discover life threatening diseases in as many patients as early as possible and to increase the chance of survival. To be able to compare aspects of health care quality, methods are needed for benchmarking that allow comparisons on various health care levels (regional, national, and international). OBJECTIVES Applications and extensions of ...

An image can be characterized by its fractal parameters, and hence, the fractal parameters can be used as the image signature to retrieve the images. In this paper, based on the principle that fractal transform is completely determined by luminance offset and contrast scaling, we first propose histogram of luminance offset as a statistical index, and we further propose three composite indices b...