Both EU and USA are dominant apparel importers in the world. In 2006, the value of world’s apparel exports to them amounted to US$ 212 billion, which represented 80% of the world’s total apperel exports. Specifically, the apparel imports of the top five members of EU; namely, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain, amounted to US$ 91 billion, accounting for 71% of the regoin’s total ...

A common study to investigate gene-environment interaction is designed to be longitudinal and population-based. Data arising from longitudinal association studies often contain missing responses. Naive analysis without taking missingness into account may produce invalid inference, especially when the missing data mechanism depends on the response process. To address this issue in the ana...

Multiple-list capture–recapture data can be used to estimate the size of a population. In this manuscript two problems are studied and solved using a common solution. The first problem is that the lists refer to different but overlapping populations. An example is that lists refer to different but overlapping regions, different but overlapping periods in time, or different but overlapping age g...

The population is estimated at between 4.1 and 5.4 million. The last census was undertaken in 1989 but due to difficulties in data collection, population movements and casualties related to the civil unrest, emigration and uncertainties about the population growth rate, the population estimates vary. This major variation means that caution must be used when interpreting other statistics using a...

Populating an ontology with a vast amount of data and ensuring the quality of the integration process by means of human supervision seem to be mutually exclusive goals that nevertheless arise as requirements when building practical applications. In our case, we were confronted with the practical problem of populating the EFGT Net, a large-scale ontology that enables thematic reasoning in differ...