kangaroo mother care (kmc) is effective care method that avoids aggressive routinely methods in neonatal wards. objective of this study was comparing kmc with conventional care (incubator) of premature infant in neonatal ward. this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial that has been done in 17 months. 40 premature neonates whose birth weight was less than 1500gr were enrolled in the ...

in this paper, a method for establishing a support criterion or poverty line is developed based on engel’s law and domestic nutritional values. the support criterion is differentiated across rural and urban areas. an important result is that for 1989, people who spend less than 108,000 rials annually lie inside the poverty line in urban areas. a further important result is that food should be g...

This paper presents an on-line coupled filter extension to the method of Tsatsanis et al. [1] for identification of randomly time-varying linear channels. The channel is modelled as a tapped-delay line filter, with tap coefficients described by an unknown auto-regressive (AR) process. We propose an augmented-state Kalman filter for tracking the channel taps and estimating the mean channel respo...

Providing a quantitative mean-squared-error analysis of adaptation algorithms is of great importance for determining their usefulness and for comparison with other algorithms. However, when the algorithm reutilizes previous data, such analysis becomes very involved as the independence assumption cannot be used. In this paper, a thorough mean-squared-error analysis of the binormalized data-reusi...

Stochastic (on-line) learning can be faster than batch learning. However, at late times, the learning rate must be annealed to remove the noise present in the stochastic weight updates. In this annealing phase, the convergence rate (in mean square) is at best proportional to l/T where T is the number of input presentations. An alternative is to increase the batch size to remove the noise. In th...

Abstract We present a new algorithm for precision radial velocity (pRV) measurements, line-by-line (LBL) approach designed to handle outlying spectral information in simple but efficient manner. The effectiveness of the LBL method is demonstrated on two data sets, one obtained with SPIRou Barnard’s star, and other High Accuracy Radial Planet Searcher (HARPS) Proxima Centauri. In near-infrared, ...