Findings Many participants were aware of their family history of diabetes and attracted by the availability of information and monitoring. Offering home or clinic-based interventions, communication in the participant’s chosen language(s) and excellent relationships between participants and dieticians contributed to retention. Adaptations in food choices were accommodated by participants, althou...

BACKGROUND Substance use in pregnancy is a major public health problem. It can have profound effects on pregnancy outcomes, and childhood health and development. Additionally, women who use substances have their own health-related issues. Although intervention is important, these women often have difficulty using traditional systems of care. The New Choices program is a centralized, multi-secto...

since takafol is regarded as a product with a structure formed by islamic contracts, its assessment and consideration of stakeholders’ interests as a guarantee of its stability in the insurance market are inevitable. on this basis, in this research, by a comprehensive analysis of the structure and various models of takafol at both general and family levels, we have tried to detect its vulnerabi...

It was recently discovered by Baik, Deift and Johansson [4] that the asymptotic distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence in a permutation chosen uniformly at random from Sn, properly centred and normalised, is the same as the asymptotic distribution of the largest eigenvalue of an n × n GUE random matrix, properly centred and normalised, as n → ∞. This distribution had e...

In a famous paper 8] Hammersley investigated the length L n of the longest increasing subsequence of a random n-permutation. Implicit in that paper is a certain one-dimensional continuous-space interacting particle process. By studying a hydrodynamical limit for Hammersley's process we show by fairly \soft" arguments that limn ?1=2 EL n = 2. This is a known result, but previous proofs (Vershik-...

We compute the limit distribution for the (centered and scaled) length of the longest increasing subsequence of random colored permutations. The limit distribution function is a power of that for usual random permutations computed recently by Baik, Deift, and Johansson (math.CO/9810105). In the two–colored case our method provides a different proof of a similar result by Tracy and Widom about t...