Methods Data for this study was obtained from the web-based data of ISSC in 62 primary schools in two counties of Jiangxi province, China from April 1th, 2012 to June 30st, 2012. The ZIMM was used to explore: 1)the temporal and spatial variability regarding occurrence and intensity of absenteeism simultaneously, and 2) the heterogeneity among the reporting primary schools by introducing random ...

F. Pientka,1,2,* M. Gradhand,3,4 D. V. Fedorov,2,4 I. Mertig,2,4 and B. L. Györffy3 1Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 2Institute of Physics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Germany 3H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH, United Kingdom 4Max Planck Institut...

We prove an h-principle with boundary condition for a certain class of sheaves Ψ: Emb d −→ Top. The techniques used in the proof come from the study of the homotopy type of the cobordism categories, and they are of simplicial and categorical nature. Applying the main result of this paper we recover the homotopy equivalence BCk,d ≃ Ω d−1Th(γ⊥ k,d) of [2] and [3].

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

BACKGROUND Burns are among the most common injuries affecting a great number of people worldwide annually. In Iran, especially in its western region and in Kermanshah province, burns have a relatively high incidence. The present study was aimed at investigating epidemiological characteristics in Western Iran. METHODS Within a cross-sectional study, the data on all patients attending the Burns...

Article history: Received 5 January 2014 Received in revised format 8 March 2014 Accepted 11 March 2014 Available online 12 March 2014 Measuring the relative efficiency of banking industry has been a popular subject among both practitioners and academicians. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied for different purposes. This paper presents an empirical investigation to measure ...