Tajik Child Health: All Hands on Deck

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A Better Way to Deal the Cards

Most of the work on card shuffling assumes that all the cards in a deck are distinct, and that in a well-shuffled deck all orderings need to be equally likely. We consider the case of decks with repeated cards and decks which are dealt into hands, as in bridge and poker. We derive asymptotic formulas for the randomness of the resulting games. Results include the influence of where a poker deck ...

On a Problem in Shuffling

Suppose we take a deck of n cards, shuffle it in the usual way k times, and then deal the cards all out, again in the usual way, giving n j cards to each of j hands. We consider the following question: suppose we always start with a fresh deck, with cards in a fixed order; how large must k be, for given j and n, so that every possible set of j hands can be dealt? The special case j=n, in which ...

Assessment of microbial contamination on the food contact surface and food-handlers' hands in Fardis city of Alborz province

Background and Objective: The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate the microbial contamination of food-handlers' hands and food contact surfaces in food preparation and distribution centers. Materials and Methods: This study was performed in 2019 in Fardis city of Alborz province. In this study, 100 samples of food contact surfaces and 48 samples of staff hands were collected f...

The mortality and morbidity of deep sea fishermen sailing from Grimsby in one year.

Moore, S. R. W. (1969). Brit. J. industr. Med., 26, 25-46. The mortality and morbidity of deep sea fishermen sailing from Grimsby in one year. The injuries, illnesses, and deaths of Grimsby deep sea fishermen in the year 1963 have been studied using the trawler log-book as the basic source of information. Additional information has been obtained from other sources. The numbers of man-days saile...