A general formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation for stochastic hybrid systems is presented, within the framework of Generalized Stochastic Hybrid Systems (GSHS). The FPK equation describes the time evolution of the probability law of the hybrid state. Our derivation is based on the concept of mean jump intensity, which is related to both the usual stochastic intensity (in t...

Objective: Turkey’s Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has started a funding program (CoHE 100/2000 Scholarship Program) since the Spring semester 2017 to support selected PhD students throughout Turkey. However, this some fundamental contradictions with regulations both Dokuz Eylul University Graduate School Health Sciences (DEU-GSHS) and requirements ORPHEUS (Organization in Biomedicine Europ...

AIM Gastrointestinal spontaneous hematomas (GSHs) represent 5-10% of patients with acute abdomen. Conservative treatment is the most common approach but the bowel perforation can be a fatal complication. In patients with spontaneous rectal wall hematoma, high comorbidity and abdominal signs of acute abdomen but without radiological signs of intestinal perforation, an early exploratory laparotom...

In this chapter we set up a mathematical structure, called Markov string, to obtaining a very general class of models for stochastic hybrid systems. Markov Strings are, in fact, a class of Markov processes, obtained by a mixing mechanism of stochastic processes, introduced by Meyer. We prove that Markov strings are strong Markov processes with the cadlag property. We then show how a very genera...

This study examined the association between parental involvement and mental well being among the 6721 school going adolescents aged 13 to 15 years who participated in Indias nationally representative Global School based Student Health Survey (GSHS) in 2007. Parental involvement (homework checking, parental understanding of their childrens problems, and parental knowledge of their childrens fre...

In this paper we define a bisimulation concept for some very general models for stochastic hybrid systems (general stochastic hybrid systems). The definition of bisimulation builds on the ideas of Edalat and of Larsen and Skou and of Joyal, Nielsen and Winskel. The main result is that this bisimulation for GSHS is indeed an equivalence relation. The secondary result is that this bisimulation re...

We examined the prevalence and evaluated associated risk protective factors of adolescent school truancy through sex-stratified models by analysing 7562 data from Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) three South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan. The was 26.6%. highest found in Bangladesh (37%), followed Pakistan (24.7%) Afghanistan (14.7%). Male adolescents had a 2...

BACKGROUND Using the Chinese version of the Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS), this article describes the prevalence of being bullied among a nationally representative sample of Chinese students in grades 6-10 and explores the relationships between being bullied and selected indicators of psychosocial adjustment. METHODS A total of 9015 students in middle schools in Beijing, Hangzhou, ...

BACKGROUND Among school- attending adolescents, victimization from bullying is associated with anxiety, depression and poor academic performance. There are limited reports on victimization from bullying in Zambia; we therefore conducted this study to determine the prevalence and correlates for victimization from bullying among adolescents in grades 7 to 10 in the country in order to add informa...

OBJECTIVES Injuries account for a substantial proportion of the burden of disease in adolescents globally. This paper describes injury rates and associated exposures, and risk behaviors in Oman's 2010 Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS). METHODS This study used complex samples analysis to examine nationally-representative data from 1 606 students in grades eight, nine, and 10 who...