Acknowledgment Whose hand and tongue is capable To fulfil the obligations of thanks to Him? – Sa'di I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me in the completion of this work. Especially I am highly indebted to my advisor, Atish Dabholkar, for his guidance and stimulating suggestions throughout the work. I would also like to thank all my collaborators, Ashoke Sen, Norihiro I...

Using data from Ireland’s national longitudinal study of children, this paper employs a capabilities approach to disability understand how individual characteristics as well home and school environmental factors at age 9 relate academic socio-emotional outcomes students with special educational needs (SEN) 17. Results suggest that young people SEN register both lower average scores make less pr...

Least squares regression of y on x assumes that the x variate is measured without error, and minimizes the sum of squared vertical distance between the data points y and the fitted regression line. Regression of x on y minimizes the horizontal distances. Adcock [1] in 1878 suggested minimizing the sum of squared horizontal + vertical distances to the predicted values. However the idea of Adcock...

The presence of charge promotes the propensity of a rotating black hole to support the propagation of electromagnetic plane waves with negative phase velocity (NPV) in its ergosphere, whether the Kerr–Newman or the Kerr–Sen metric descriptions of spacetime are considered. Striking differences in the NPV characteristics for the Kerr–Newman and Kerr–Sen metrics emerge from numerical studies, part...

Institute of Hypertension, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen 8 University, Guangzhou, China 510080 9 Department of Orthopedics, The 5 Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 10 Zhuhai, China 519000 11 Department of Medicine, Division of Hypertension and Renal Diseases, 12 University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA 80010 13 Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and ...