The goal of the work described in this paper is to predict the daily returns of the closing prices for the IBM stock. From the original data of IBM daily quotes a new data set was built using technical indicators as predictor variables. Using this new data set, two modelling approaches were tried: regression and classification. Early analysis and experiments suggested that this prediction probl...

Traditionally, static units of analysis such as administrative units are used when studying obesity. However, using these fixed contextual units ignores environmental influences experienced by individuals in areas beyond their residential neighborhood and may render the results unreliable. This problem has been articulated as the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP). This study investig...

Daily deaths of all causes in Tokyo residents from 1966 to 1972 were analyzed with relation to environmental conditions. As the analytical methods, daily deviation from 15-day moving average, simple correlation coefficients and stepwise regression procedure between daily deaths and environmental variables were employed. Seasonal variations of daily deaths, high in winter low in summer, and sign...

the hargreaves-samani (hs) equation, which estimates reference evapotranspiration (et0) using only temperature as input, should be most suitable for et0 prediction based on weather forecasting data. in the current study, the hs equation is calibrated with daily et0 by the penman-monteith equation, and is evaluated to check the possibility of predicting daily et0 based on weather forecast data. ...

OBJECTIVES Influence of meteorological variables on the transmission of bacillary dysentery (BD) is under investigated topic and effective forecasting models as public health tool are lacking. This paper aimed to quantify the relationship between meteorological variables and BD cases in Beijing and to establish an effective forecasting model. METHODS A time series analysis was conducted in th...

Introduction Leptospirosis has emerged as an important health problem in developing countries due to the growth of slum settlements worldwide, where poor sanitation favours rat-borne transmission. Large urban epidemics occur during seasonal periods of heavy rainfall. However, a detailed analysis has not been performed to determine how rainfall, as well as other climatic factors, specifically in...

Ambient and indoor temperature affects thermal comfort and human health. In a changing climate with a predicted change in temperature extremes, understanding indoor temperatures, both hot and cold, of different housing types is important. This study aimed to assess the hourly, daily and monthly variation in indoor temperatures in different housing types, namely formal houses, informal houses, f...