BACKGROUND Persistent suboptimal glycemic control is invariably associated with onset and progression of acute and chronic diabetic complications in diabetic patients. In Uganda, studies documenting the magnitude and predictors of suboptimal glycemic control in adult ambulatory diabetic patients are limited. This study aimed at determining the frequency and predictors of suboptimal glycemic con...

Host plant switching is common among phytophagous insects. Once optimal food sources have been depleted, immature insects may resort to use of suboptimal hosts in order to complete their development. Such host switching may have dramatic consequences for insect fitness. Here we investigate the effects of host switching in larvae of the viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, an invasive landsc...

This study proposes a novel suboptimal embedding algorithm for binary messages based on a lowweight search embedding (LWSE) strategy. The suboptimal LWSE strategy involves using algorithm to perform an embedding procedure by using a parity check matrix. The optimal embedding algorithm, which is based on the maximun likelihood (ML) algorithm, aims to locate the coset leader and minimize embeddin...

This paper presents the central finite-dimensional H∞ filter for nonlinear polynomial systems, that is suboptimal for a given threshold γ with respect to a modified BolzaMeyer quadratic criterion including the attenuation control term with the opposite sign. In contrast to the previously obtained results, the paper reduces the original H∞ filtering problem to the corresponding optimal H2 filter...

Geriatric depression has been associated with cognitive impairments, but whether suboptimal effort contributes to these deficits is unknown. This study investigated differences in cognitive functioning between depressed and nondepressed elderly veterans, before and after excluding patients who provided suboptimal effort on testing at a memory disorders clinic. Patients diagnosed with a depressi...

In this article we present a parametric branch and bound algorithm for computation of optimal and suboptimal solutions to parametric mixed-integer quadratic programs and parametric mixed-integer linear programs. The algorithm returns an optimal or suboptimal parametric solution with the level of suboptimality requested by the user. An interesting application of the proposed parametric branch an...