Climate change is now evident on a global scale. In some regions, the phenomenon especially amplified, generating different consequences for man and environment. Sicily one of Mediterranean biggest in terms area, where climatic variations produce significant effects. this study, temperature trends monthly time scales are examined frame 1925–2015. The cluster analysis technique (Ward’s method) w...

We investigate here how to treat numerically the Kendall functional equation occuring in the theory of branching processes and queueing theory. We discuss this question in the context of priority queueing systems with switchover times. In numerical analysis of such systems one deals with functional equations of the Kendall type and efficient numerical treatment of these is necessary in order to...

Endpoints related to tumor progression are commonly used in clinical trials of novel therapeutic agents for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Whether improved tumor control translates into improved overall survival (OS), however, is uncertain. We assessed associations between tumor progression endpoints and OS in observational cohorts of patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors treated with som...

Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch To cite this article: Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch (2009) Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4:6, 500-510, DOI: 10.1080/1743...

Dry lands are traditionally used and managed by a pastoralist, characterized variable precipitation, climate variability water scarcity. Change in rainfall trend variability’s lead to severe production deficit decline the balance between pasture livestock on which pastoral livelihood depends on. The study was undertaken assess trends of Borana area using monthly record for period 1987-2016 Yabe...

We propose new positive definite kernels for permutations. First we introduce a weighted version of the Kendall kernel, which allows to weight unequally the contributions of different item pairs in the permutations depending on their ranks. Like the Kendall kernel, we show that the weighted version is invariant to relabeling of items and can be computed efficiently in O(n ln(n)) operations, whe...