The mean height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) of children under five is an important indicator of the health status of a population. HAZ values are frequently aggregated and reported at the national level, potentially obscuring important within-country variation. We evaluated aggregation and interpolation methods to provide sub-national estimates over space and time, using survey data from Nigeria in 1...

the charts of 27 patients with kawasaki disease (kd) admitted to nemazee hospital in shiraz from january 1991 to october 1998 were reviewed to identify the results of mean peroxidase index (mpxi) values, a measure of neutrophil staining intensity, obtained by the technicon hi analyzer (technicon instruments corp., tarrytown, ny) within the first 10 days of the illness 2 separate groups of patie...

In this paper, an algorithm based on the collocation and homotopy analysis methods, for solving initial-boundary value problems, is introduced. The application of this algorithm is based on the approximation and interpolation of the dependent variables by using suitable functions or polynomials according to their values in the collocation points corresponding to a suitable discretization of the...