BACKGROUND Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is characterized by chronically inflamed airways, and inflammation even increases during pulmonary exacerbations. These adverse events have an important influence on the well-being, quality of life, and lung function of patients with CF. Prediction of exacerbations by inflammatory markers in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) combined with early treatment may preven...

BACKGROUND In asthma management guidelines the primary goal of treatment is asthma control. To date, asthma control, guided by symptoms and lung function, is not optimal in many children and adults. Direct monitoring of airway inflammation in exhaled breath may improve asthma control and reduce the number of exacerbations. AIM 1) To study the use of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and ...

This investigation deals with a mathematical model for a distribution transformer including saturation effect. To this end, the equations related to a three phase transformer are specified and the effect of an inter-turn fault is included. Naturally by applying an inter-turn fault the inductance and resistance matrix will change. Thus, unknown quantities of inductances and resistances for compl...

Finite mixtures are widely used in applications to model data coming from different populations. Let X be the latent random variable whose value is the label of the population the observation comes from, and let Y be the observed random variable. With finitely many populations, X takes values in {1, . . . , k} for some fixed integer k, and conditionally to X = j, Y has distribution μj. Here, μ1...

many commonly used statistical methods require that the population distribution be nearly normal. unfortunately, in some papers the one-sample kolmogorov-smirnov test has been used for testing normality while the assumptions of applying this test are not satisfied. to conduct this test, it is assumed that the population distribution is fully specified. in practical situation where the mean and ...

This article introduces a new Bayesian approach to the analysis of right-censored survival data. The hazard rate of interest is modeled as a product of conditionally independent stochastic processes corresponding to (1) a baseline hazard function and (2) a regression function representing the temporal influence of the covariates. These processes jump at times that form a time-homogeneous Poisso...