Brazilian Hansen's disease detection rate rose during the 80s and 90s of the 20th century. The Brazilian health system reform happened during the same period. Detection rate is a function of the real incidence of cases and the diagnostic agility of the health system. Coverage of BCG immunization in infants was used as a proxy variable for primary healthcare coverage. A log-normal regression mod...

Rapid development and population growth have resulted in an ever-increasing level of water pollution in Malaysia. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess water quality of Selangor River in Malaysia. The data collected under the river water quality monitoring program by the Department of environment from 2005 to 2015 were used for statistical analyses. The local water quality indices were ...

Continuous global time series of vegetation indices, which are available since early 1980s, are of great value to detect changes in vegetation status at large spatial scales. Most change detection methods, however, assume a fixed change trajectory – defined by the start and end of the time series – and a linear or monotonic trend. Here, we apply a change detection method which detects abrupt ch...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a pandemic disease. It is the second leading cause of death from infectious diseases after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the world.The main objective of this paper was to determine and compare the epidemiology of TB incidence rate and its trend changes during 1990-2010 in six WHO regions regarding age, gender and income levels. METHODS The Average Annua...

BACKGROUND Sensors detect the rate and direction of glucose trend. They need to be accurate and reproducible as could be evidenced by strong agreement between multiple sensors. We evaluated this relationship through simultaneously worn glucose sensors using several methods of slope analysis. METHODS Ten type 1 diabetic, insulin pump-treated subjects were studied while simultaneously wearing t...

The most important impacts of climate change relate to temperature and precipitation. Precipitation is particularly important, because changes in precipitation patterns may lead to floods or droughts in different areas. Also, precipitation is a major factor in agriculture and in recent years interest has increased in learning about precipitation variability for periods of months to annual and s...

The notion of trends in social networks has emerged as an important problem attracting the attention of researchers as well as the industry. Although, recent work has studied trends from various perspectives such as its temporal and geospatial properties, the structural properties of the network that creates such trends are ignored in trend detection. In this work, we propose two novel structur...