Successful mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns have brought several countries near the point of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) elimination. A diagnostic tool is needed to determine when the prevalence levels have decreased to a point that MDA campaigns can be discontinu...

stsatrisk is a wrapper for sts graph that adds a table to a survival plot with at-risk information, making it easy to create graphs that follow the list of recommendations given by Pocock et al. (2002) for KaplanÐMeier plots. We use stsatrisk to create plots in the desi...

It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that there is an intrinsic micro-macro interface in the Islamic political economic order. That is to say that macroeconomic relations of output, income, price stabilisation, employment, economic growth and distribution are not independent...

Abstract Exposure to temperatures above ambient compromises normal physiological processes and adversely affects aquatic organisms. Nonetheless, non-lethal heat shock (NLHS) protects aquatic organisms against abiotic and biotic stress, perhaps due in part to the accumul...

International audience; High salt intake is a major risk factor of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) related to salt intake in the general population is a key component of salt reduction strategies. The objectiv...

Random coefficient autoregressive model, RCA(p), has been discussed widely as a suitable model for nonlinear time series. The conditional least squares and likelihood parameter estimation of RCA(p) model has also been discussed in [3]. The statistical inference of RCA(1...

Abstract Concentrations, sources and interactions between black carbon (BC) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in 42 sediment samples collected from riverine, coastal and shelf areas in Peninsular Malaysia. The concentrations of BC measured by...

Abstract Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), a condition occurring in some children of mothers who have consumed alcohol during pregnancy, is characterized by physical deformities and learning and memory deficits. The chick hippocampus, whose functions are controlled by inter...