The purpose of this observational study with a convenience sample is to validate simple measurement the mid-upper arm circumference establish screening points using tape (MUAC) for childhood overweight and obesity between 9 12 years age, or from 4th grade 6th grade. Prior study, pilot validation MUAC measure versus anthropometric standard was carried out. total cut-offs 360 school students. res...

A robust prediction of auction theory is that reserve prices will be used in auctions. The optimal selling mechanism for the owner of a unique, indivisible item is to sell to the bidder with the highest valuation unless this valuation is below a cut-off level; and this cut-off valuation is strictly above the seller’s own valuation. Thus the monopolist imposes a distortion: with positive probabi...

Extended Abstract. Sampling is the process of selecting units (e.g., people, organizations) from a population of interest so that by studying the sample we may fairly generalize our results back to the population from which they were chosen. To draw a sample from the underlying population, a variety of sampling methods can be employed, individually or in combination. Cut-off sampling is a pr...

INTRODUCTION ARFI is a new technique that uses acoustic push pulse to generate tissue displacement resulting in shear wave propagation, can be used to measure elasticity of tissue. We aim to assess feasibility of ARFI as a non-invasive method to measure liver fibrosis compared to histological fibrosis scores and to compare our results with the published pooled-meta-analysis cut off values. MA...

U sing daily data, this study examined asymmetric pass-through of Iran’s oil price to banking stock index in Tehran Stock Exchange at different time horizons. Based on the results, the coefficient of long-run pass-through of oil price to banking stock index was estimated to be 0.63. Furthermore, based on the short-term ARDL-CECM models, the relationship between the positive component...

In many mixed integer programs there is some embedded problem structure which can be exploited, often by a decomposition. When the relaxation in each node of a branch-andbound tree is solved by column generation, one speaks of branch-and-price. Optionally, cutting planes can be added in order to strengthen the relaxation, and this is called branchprice-and-cut. We introduce the common concepts ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Several studies have raised the suspicion that the body mass index (BMI) cut-off for overweight as defined by the WHO may not adequately reflect the actual overweight status. The present study looked at the relationship between BMI and body fat per cent (BF %) / health risks (hypertension and type 2 diabetes) in male residents of Lucknow city, north India to evaluate the...