Knowledge of factors that affect the under-five year child mortality is important because it pertains to policy and programs. Causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area help decision makers to assess programmatic needs and prioritize interventions. This paper investigates the causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area in Banglade...

To revise / revisit basic control schemes covered in the second year control course (Process Control I). Schemes to be discussed are: • Feedback control • Feedforward Control • Cascade Control • Ratio Control For each scheme a typical process example is used to highlight the application of the methodology. On completion of this section of the course you should have an awareness of a common proc...

The simultaneous unavailability of several technical components within large-scale engineering systems can lead to high stress, rendering them prone to cascading events. In order to gain qualitative insights into the failure propagation mechanisms resulting from independent outages, we adopt a minimalistic model representing the components and their interdependencies by an undirected, unweighte...

BACKGROUND The Cox model has been the mainstay of survival analysis in the critically ill and time-dependent covariates have infrequently been incorporated into survival analysis. OBJECTIVES To model 28-day survival of patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and compare the utility of Cox and accelerated failure time (AFT) models. METHODS Prospe...