Improving maternal health is one of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Despite the efforts to promote maternal and neonatal care to achieve this goal, the use of delivery care remains below expectations in Burkina Faso. This situation raises the question of the quality of care offered in maternity wards. The aim of this study was to identify primary healthcare facility and ...

Perfect simulations or exact sampling are labels for a recently developed set of techniques designed to produce output whose distribution is guaranteed to follow a given probability law. These techniques are particularly useful in relation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo, and their range of applicability is rapidly growing (see Green and Murdoch (1999), Section 1.3, and Mira, Møller and Roberts (...

Product review sites such as TripAdvisor, Yelp or Amazon provide a single, non personalized ranking of products. The sparse review data makes personalizing recommendations difficult. Topic Profile Collaborative Filtering exploits review texts to identify user profiles as a basis for similarity. We show that careful use of the available data and separating users into classes can greatly improve ...

Penelitian ini membahas analisis faktor penyebab sisa material pekerjaan struktur pada proyek konstruksi menggunakan program SPSS. Sebelum melakukan analisis, dilakukan pengujian uji normalitas, validitas, dan hasil reliabilitas. Dari normalitas didapatkan bahwa Sig. < 0,05 sehingga penelitian statistika non parametrik yang metodenya adalah Rank Spearman Kendall. Pada semua variabel ditinjau...

climatic parameters in time and space scales of change are for many reasons of changes and how they should be based on observations using a statistical method to be determined. analysis of the most widely used statistical methods that assess potential climate change on hydrological time series, such series of precipitation, temperature and flow rate used. this study of 11 synoptic,rain gage and...

We study the social choice problem where a group of n voters report their preferences over alternatives and a voting rule is used to select an alternative. We show that when the preferences of voters are positively correlated according to the Kendall-Tau distance, the probability that any scoring rule is not ex post incentive compatible (EPIC) goes to zero exponentially fast with the number of ...

We consider the problem of approximate sorting of a data stream (in one pass) with limited internal storage where the goal is not to rearrange data but to output a permutation that reflects the ordering of the elements of the data stream as closely as possible. Our main objective is to study the relationship between the quality of the sorting and the amount of available storage. To measure qual...

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The modularized code encapsulating object interactions is characterized by class hierarchies. In the implementation of mobile agents, we have observed that the changes in agent interaction protocols lead to uncontrolled subclassing and consequently to disorder. This phenomenon is known as entropy. The additional subclassing, modification to protocols, restructuring of the class hierarchies, cha...