The yearly admissions of tetanus, both neonatal and post-neonatal, in the last 11 years from 1983 to 1993 as well as the total pediatric admissions in the corresponding years in the Pediatric Department of LNJPN Hospital were found out from the hospital records. The contribution of tetanus to Pediatric hospitalizations was worked out by expressing the tetanus admissions as a percentage of the t...

Kendall Rank Correlation Let (X1, Y1), · · · , (Xn, Yn) be a bivariate random sample of size n. The Pearson correlation coefficient provides an optimal measure of the degree of association between the X’s and the Y ’s when the sample is drawn from a bivariate normal distribution. The Pearson correlation coefficient is reasonably robust for many other distributions as well. The Kendall correlati...

Here we give some insight for our definition of the family of graph difference operators (5) and (6), based on the idea of piecewise polynomials over graphs. In the univariate case, sparsity of β under the difference operator D implies a specific kth order piecewise polynomial structure for the components of β [6, 8]. Since the components of β correspond to (real-valued) input locations x = (x1...

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and the alarm based on the number and rate of vector species. To monitor vectors that could be coming from overseas, various vectors (mosquitoes, cockroaches, rodents etc) are collected at the National Quarantine Station (19 sites) located at harbors and airports. And in 2009, to effectively cope with climate change, 3 vector surveillance centers were established in Honam, Yeongnam and Jeju are...

An account is given of a variety of linear filters which can be used for extracting trends from economic time series and for generating de-trended series. A family of rational square-wave filters is described which enable designated frequency ranges to be selected or rejected. Their use is advocated in preference to other filters which are commonly used in quantitative economic analysis.

This paper is concerned with the optimality of a trend following trading rule. The underlying market is modeled as a bull-bear switching market in which the drift of the stock price switches between two states: the uptrend (bull market) and the downtrend (bear market). Such switching process is modelled as a hidden Markov chain. This is a continuation of our earlier study reported in Dai et al....

As social media continues to grow, the zeitgeist of society is increasingly found not in the headlines of traditional media institutions, but in the activity of ordinary individuals. The identification of trending topics utilizes social media (such as Twitter) to provide an overview of the topics and issues that are currently popular within the online community. In this paper, we outline method...

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OBJECTIVE To investigate factors influencing the increase in cesarean section CS rates, and to implement control measures. METHODS This retrospective analysis reviewed the birth registry of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We compared the frequency of different indications for CS between January 2007 and December 2008. The num...