This project is based on a 25000$ competition by the Hearst Magazines posted on www.kdnuggets.com . The goal of this project is to predict the sales of 10 different magazine titles published by the Hearst Magazines at each newsstand location across United States, to optimize the overall contribution of the newsstand locations. To predict the magazines’ sales volume, Hearst magazines has provide...

This paper presents a new method for the estimation and characterization of the expected teletraffic in mobile communication networks. The method considers the teletraffic from the network viewpoint. The traffic estimation is based on the geographic traffic model, which obeys the geographical and demographical factors for the demand for mobile communication services. For the spatial teletraffic...

OBJECTIVE To examine multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence, rate of immunomodulatory treatment and frequency of Borrelia burgordorferi (Bb) antibodies in Vest-Agder, Norway. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients in the period 1996-2006 who met the Poser criteria for definitive or probable MS were included. Clinical and demographical data, and presence of Bb antibodies were registered. RESULTS A total...

Education is great meat to brought social change. A teacher has crucial role in imparting education. The quality of good Professionally competent teachers depends on some factor where the degree of level of adjustment present in the school environment. The present study is carried out in Government Primary Schools of district Jhajjar to know the gender, demographical and educational impact on t...

Early marriage, less awareness of family life education, low socio economic condition and burden of large families in rural area are the contributory factors to high teenage pregnancy and its complications. A rural health centre based cross sectionals study was under taken over six month period among teenage (10-19 years) in the rural Kathmandu Valley. The study sample comprises (15-19 years ol...

Charity organizations often have limited resources and thus rely on individual contributions of money and time. The existing literature is divided on whether charitable giving and volunteering are complements or substitutes. This paper aims to clarify the relationship between giving time and giving money using 2012 General Social Survey results and to explore whether certain demographical attri...

This study examines whether behavioral and demographical factors such as previous web use experience, type of web portal used, age, and gender influence user satisfaction with web portals, and whether user satisfaction influences usage of portals. A total of 340 undergrad and graduate students participated in a survey on their usage and satisfaction with different portals. The results show that...

Antibodies named TcCRA "Trypanosoma cruzi Cross Reactive Antibodies" were detected in 47% of blood donors from French population unexposed to the parasite. In order to evaluate the passive or active transmissibility of TcCRA and further characterize its role and etiology, we have conducted a study in a cohort of 47 patients who underwent allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations (allo...

A selective literature review of publications on life review generated ideas on implementation, theory, research, and therapy. The review begins by differentiating life review from reminiscence, and summarizing ways to conduct a life review. A dozen theories that have been influenced by the life review technique are presented, with a focus placed on Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development....

Ancestry information at the individual level can be a valuable resource for personalized medicine, medical, demographical and history research, as well as for tracing back personal history. We report a new method for quantitatively determining personal genetic ancestry based on genome-wide data. Numerical ancestry component scores are assigned to individuals based on comparisons with reference ...