The prevalence of overweight and obesity is growing rapidly in many countries. Education policies might be important for reducing this increase. This paper analyses the causal effect of education on the probability of being overweight by using longitudinal data of Australian identical twins. The data include self-reported and clinical measures of body size. Our cross-sectional estimates confirm...

Abstract We investigate and compare the effects of two different constraints on geometrical properties linking pairs polygons simple cubic lattice, using Monte Carlo methods. One constraint is to insist that centres mass are less than distance d apart, other radius gyration pair R . The second results in links quite spherically symmetric, especially at small values , while first gives much symm...

â â â â â â â â â â â  â  abstract â  the foreign exchange market (fx market) accounts for 40% of the total volume of the world’s e-commerce by its own. based on statistics, sometimes up to 90 per cent of the traders lose their total capital in this market just within six months to one year and leave this market. the probability of loss in the fx market can be estimated by probability theory....

We consider pairs of toral automorphisms (A,B) satisfying an invariant cone property. At each iteration, A acts with probability p is in (0,1) and B with probability 1-p. We prove exponential decay of correlations for a class of Hölder continuous observables.

We consider a probability based approach according to which the similarity of two values (in the same domain) is the probability of value pairs whose components are rather apart than the two values under consideration. Similarities across the attributes of the heterogeneous data are combined using Fisher transformation. Results of applying this approach to an image retrieval problem are also pr...

For zygosity diagnosis in the absence of genotypic data, or in the recruitment phase of a twin study where only single twins from same-sex pairs are being screened, or to provide a test for sample duplication leading to the false identification of a dizygotic pair as monozygotic, the appropriate analysis of respondents' answers to questions about zygosity is critical. Using data from a young ad...

: The aim of the study was to perform a genetic linkage analysis for eye color, for comparative data. Similarity in eye color of mono- and dizygotic twins was rated by the twins' mother, their father and/or the twins themselves. For 4,748 twin pairs the similarity in eye color was available on a three point scale ("not at all alike"-"somewhat alike"-"completely alike"), absolute eye color on in...

A novel strong physical unclonable function (PUF), called Probability-based PUF (Prob-PUF), is proposed using the stochastic process of trap emission in nano-scaled transistors. For first time, information probability used design. This new approach offers ideal immunity to machine learning (ML) attacks. Since Prob-PUF only stores a mathematical model, it naturally avoids dilemma between require...

The electrically coupled buccal ganglion neurons 4R and 4L of the snail, Helisoma, display predictable plasticity. The strength of the electronic synapse between them increases significantly following axotomy. Synaptic strength was assayed by measurements of electrical coupling coefficients and by assessment of dye coupling (passage of dye into the uninjected neuron) following injection of Luci...