Academic Articles & Research Papers

Group representations in probability and statistics

The Relationship of Youth Family Values with Hedonism and Eudemonia

Introduction. A notable trend in modern society is the transformation of family institution, which has long been considered the most important social and personal value. The change of attitudes of young people towards marriage in Russia is ...

AGRICULTURE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHALLENGES – THE PROBLEM OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Changes in seasonal weather cycles, a growing number of extreme phenomena, an upward trend in temperature and changes in the distribution of rainfall, significantly affect the functioning and effectiveness of agriculture. However, agricultu...

SOMATOTYPE AND BODY COMPOSITION OF ELITE BRAZILIAN GYMNASTS

The main objective of this study was to analyze the somatotype and body composition of elite athletes in Brazilian artistic gymnastics, belonging to the junior and senior categories. Forty-six athletes were assessed, whereby 21 were from Ma...

Prevalence and factors associated with diabetic retinopathy among diabetic patients at Arbaminch General Hospital, Ethiopia: Cross sectional study.

BackgroundCurrently 93 million people are estimated as living with diabetic retinopathy worldwide. The prevalence and risk factors of diabetic retinopathy in developed countries have been well documented; but in Ethiopia, data on prevalence...

Relative risk of suicide following exposure to recent stressors, Victoria, Australia

Abstract Objective: This study aimed to identify stressors over‐represented in the 12 months prior to death among 553 Victorian adults who died by suicide. Methods: Age‐ and sex‐specific suicide rates and relative risks of suicide were calc...

The Architecture of an Automatic eHealth Platform With Mobile Client for Cerebrovascular Disease Detection

BackgroundIn recent years, cerebrovascular disease has been the leading cause of death and adult disability in the world. This study describes an efficient approach to detect cerebrovascular disease. ObjectiveIn order to improve...

A need for specialized education in pediatric radiography in Nigeria

Introduction: Pediatrics is a vast field with many facets. The importance of having dedicated specialists trained in the treatment and care of pediatric patients has long been recognized. It is necessary to determine if the profession of ra...

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics in Seychelles patients diagnosed with dementia

Background: dementia has now become a major cause of death, leading to disability and dependence. Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiological variables in patients with dementia in Seychelles, from July 2018 to August 2019. Me...

Adaptive Sampling of the Electrocardiogram Based on Generalized Perceptual Features

A non-uniform distribution of diagnostic information in the electrocardiogram (ECG) has been commonly accepted and is the background to several compression, denoising and watermarking methods. Gaze tracking is a widely recognized method for...

Therapeutic Efficacy of Orally Delivered Doxorubicin Nanoparticles in Rat Tongue Cancer Induced by 4-Nitroquinoline 1-Oxide

Purpose: Oral cancer is one of the most significant cancers in the world, and squamous cell carcinoma makes up about 94% of oral malignancies. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of doxorubicin plus methotrexate - loa...

Confidence intervals for the common coefficient of variation of rainfall in Thailand

The log-normal distribution is often used to analyze environmental data like daily rainfall amounts. The rainfall is of interest in Thailand because high variable climates can lead to periodic water stress and scarcity. The mean, standard d...

From the Statistics of Data to the Statistics of Knowledge

Increasingly, datasets are so large they must be summarized in some fashion so that the resulting summary dataset is of a more manageable size, while still retaining as much knowledge inherent to the entire dataset as possible. One conseque...

Statistics – An introduction

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that is used to help people to understand the information that is contained in large amounts of data such as numbers. The numbers and other facts that are collected for various purposes are called data....

Statistics, Not Experts

The legal system should rely much more than it now does on statistical evidence. It should be cautious about the judgments of experts, who make predictable cognitive errors. Like everyone else, experts have a tendency to blunder about risk,...

Prevalence and risk factors of acute kidney injury in polytrauma patients at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute, Tanzania

Background: Polytrauma can lead to multi-organ dysfunction in addition to the local injuries. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most common causes and contributors to the high morbidity and mortality. Prevalence of acute kidney injury...

Peculiarities of urban youth interests’ realization in social conflicts

The article is devoted to the problem of urban youth interest’s realization in the sphere of social conflicts, which is a critical situation determined on the one hand, by the overall logic of socio-cultural development, and, on the other, ...

Application of Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in Water and Soil Conservation of Loess Plateau

Comparing to the traditional monitoring and evaluation,the participatory monitoring and evaluation is more preponderant obviously,which is more and more widely used at home.The concept of the participatory monitoring and evaluation is descr...

¡Salvemos a Freud!: Juan Marín, Pablo Neruda, la Alianza de Intelectuales y las vicisitudes de un intento de asilo político al creador del psicoanálisis en Chile (1938)

This paper recovers the efforts made by the Alliance of Intellectuals for the Defense of Culture (A.I. CH) and the Medical Society of Valparaiso to offer political asylum in Chile to Sigmund Freud. These groups leds by Pablo Neruda and Juan...

Influence of proxy data uncertainty on data assimilation for the past climate

Data assimilation (DA) is an emerging topic in palaeoclimatology and one of the key challenges in this field. Assimilating proxy-based continental mean temperature reconstructions into the MPI-ESM model showed a lack of information propagat...