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...

Men sometimes withdraw support for gender equality movements when their higher gender status is threatened. Here, we expand the focus of this phenomenon by examining it cross-culturally, to test if both individual- and country-level variables predict men's collective ac...

Abstract For a graph G , the signless Laplacian matrix Q ( G ) is defined as Q ( G ) = D ( G ) + A ( G ) , where A ( G ) is the adjacency matrix of G and D ( G ) the diagonal matrix whose main entries are the degrees of the vertices in G . The Q -spectrum of G is that o...

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...

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...

We study the determinants of a firm's decision to issue one of the four available ADR programs (Level I, Level II, Level III, and Rule 144A). We find that the firm's attributes (size, income, asset growth, leverage, privatization, ownership structure, and country-of-ori...

In this paper, the effect of different pulse and system parameters on the killing efficiency of PEF treatment was investigated. Escherichia Coli bacteria inoculated in apple juice was treated. The results showed that an electric field higher than 4 kV/mm is required to ...

We investigate all possible combinations of re-ordering of read and write instructions and their effects on the correctness of programs that are designed for sequential consistency. With certain combinations of re-orderings, any program that accesses shared memory throu...

In the last decade, several approaches concerning private data release for data mining have been proposed. Data mashup, on the other hand, has recently emerged as a mechanism for integrating data from several data providers. Fusing both techniques to generate mashup dat...