The psychological impact of peer influence on its individual group members, can make them resist HIV/AIDS counselling and testing. This study investigated the correlate of peer influence and resistance to HIV/AIDS counselling and testing among students in tertiary institutions in Kano state, Nigeria. To achieve this, three null hypotheses were postulated and tested. CrossSectional Survey Design...

Background:Dialysis is a process for eliminating extra uremic fluids of patients with chronic renal failure. The present study aimed to determine the variables that influence the survival of dialysis patients using random survival forest model (RSFM) in low-dimensional data with low events per variable (EPV). Methods:In this historical cohort study, infor...

BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a worldwide prevalent condition that exhibits a large variety of signs and symptoms of esophageal or extra-esophageal nature and can be related to the esophagic adenocarcinoma. In the last few years, greater importance has been given to the influence of physical exercises on it. Some recent investigations, though showing conflicting results, point t...

In this research, residual strength and stress concentration factor of laminated composites with a circular open hole are studied analytically, numerically and experimentally. The numerical study was carried out using the finite element method. Moreover an analytical study was carried out with developing of point stress criterion. Mechanical testing was performed to determine the un-notched ten...

This paper proposes a framework based on Defeasible Logic (DL) to reason about normative modifications. We show how to express them in DL and how the logic deals with conflicts between temporalised normative modifications. Some comments will be given with regard to the phenomenon of retroactivity.

In this paper, a forward and backward (FB) fourth order PDEs is presented to denosing and enhancement image simultaneously. The new FB fourth order PDEs preserves the advantage of YK model and avoids leaving isolated black and white speckles. Moreover, the new model preserves fine details, sharp corners, curved structures and thin lines. Experiment results show the effectiveness of the proposed...

In this document we first provide the derivation for incremental learning of PSVM parameters, which is used to update every decision node in our online Obli-RaF. Next, we provide a detailed analysis of various parameters of the proposed tracker, and demonstrate the merits of our Obli-RaF. Finally, we provide more detailed results of our approach on the OTB51, OTB-100 datasets and VOT2016 under ...

We propose to exploit Decision Networks (DN) for the analysis of attack/defense scenarios. We show that DN extend both the modeling and the analysis capabilities of formalisms based on Attack Trees, which are the main reference model in such a context. Uncertainty can be addressed at every system level and a decisiontheoretic analysis of the risk and of the selection of the best countermeasures...