The main reasons why people live longer according to the medical profession, in order of importance, are things like genetics, medical history and medical care, and perhaps one’s lifestyle and living conditions. People in poor nations, for example, often die of accidents, freezing temperatures and simple infections that could be prevented with simple medical care. In this regard, these measures...

The Theoretical Basis of Electrocardiology, edited by C.V. Nelson and D.B. Geselowitz, attempts to bridge the gap between understanding of basic electrophysiology and the electrical representation of this activity on the body surface. In view of the increasing research importance and potential clinical usefulness of analyzing all the electrical information available at the body surface, their b...

We examine the ARCH-GARCH models for the forecasting of the bond price time series provided by VUB bank and make comparisons the forecast accuracy with the class of RBF neural network models. A limited statistical or computer science theory exists on how to design the architecture of RBF networks for some specific nonlinear time series, which allows for exhaustive study of the underlying dynami...