Background Despite the instrumental role of vaccines, public confidence is declining, and anti-vaccine movements have increased worldwide. With goal informing policy decisions development interventions, we explore concerns challenges related to vaccine uptake (of childhood, maternal, COVID-19 vaccines) among parents or caregivers under-two children pregnant women in urban rural communities Phil...

SETI@home observes a 2.5 MHz bandwidth centered on 1420 MHz near the 21-cm line using a short line feed at Arecibo which provides a 6 beam. This feed sits on Carriage House 1, which means that during normal astronomical observations with the new Gregorian dome the feed scans across the sky at twice the sidereal rate. We are using the SETI@home receiver to obtain about 4 4 106 spectra per year w...

Our country’s system for financing health care cannot be fundamentally reformed without significant compromise by all affected interest groups. Providers must yield on cost containment; consumers must accept restrictions in benefits; personal injury lawyers must tolerate tort reform; employers must pay either higher employee compensation or taxes; and private insurers must change the way they d...

Two competing approaches to setting risk-based capital (RBC) parameters are the traditional probability of ruin approach and the more recent expected policyholder deficit (EPD) ratio approach. The probability of ruin approach develops capital standards based on a fixed maximum probability of insolvency regardless of risk. The EPD ratio approach allows tradeoffs between the risk of insolvency an...

This is a guide to coordinate systems, representations, and geometric relationships between them, for components of the Rochester Robotics Laboratory. The main entities at issue are the joint angles, location variables, and coordinate systems of the Puma, the camera angles and coordinate systems associated with the head, the spatial location of three-dimensional points, and the kinematic and in...

The literature on the nature and representation of time is full of disputes and contradictory theories. This is surprising since the nature of time does not cause any worry for people in their everyday coping with the world. What this suggests is that there is some form of common sense knowledge about time that is rich enough to enable people to deal with the world, and that is universal enough...

Value at risk is a convenient and popular risk measurement tool. It represents the maximum potential loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets given a specific time horizon and a confidence interval. Principally value at risk is used in finance for risk management, financial reporting and capital requirement. In direct real estate, the calculation of this risk measurement is still rare e...

____________________________ The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the College of Business Administration at the University of Rhode Island. We would like to thank Tian Xiao at NAIC for useful comments and Xuanjuan Chen, doctoral student at University of Rhode Island, for computational assistance. We also thank participants at the 2003 Western Risk and Insurance Conference. ...

This present study aims to determine the performance of using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, coupled with urban canopy models (UCMs), in simulating 2 m air temperature relative humidity Metro Manila. The simulation was performed during a high heat event on 22–29 April 2018, which coincided dry season Philippines. four model options that were used this include, bulk (no urban), SL...

The success or failure of artificial insemination (AI) depends on the quality semen used. This study was conducted to investigate effect breed, age, collection period, and ejaculate number collected from 15 breeding bulls available at centre with different ages (4 Friesian, 4 Ayrshire, 3 Jersey, 2 Simmental Boran breeds) maintained National Artificial Insemination Center (NAIC), Arusha, Tanzani...