Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a leading complication in childbirth. PPD is a form of clinical depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, typically after childbirth. Although depression is thought to be most commonly experienced by new mothers and fathers soon after the birth, some women and men experience depression during pregnancy. Postpart...

The use of psychoactive prescription drugs (PPDs) by young people is part of a broader worldwide trend towards the consumption of pharmaceuticals to improve social, emotional, and sexual performance. Few studies have examined how young people use PPDs in developing countries, where off-label use is likely to be greater due to weaker market controls. This study presents our findings on PPD use a...

Toward the close of an elaborate statistical treatment of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Pearl' discusses the relation between the explosiveness I and the destructiveness D of the epidemic, between which he finds a high correlation rID = 0.709 and a regression equation D = 2.74 + 0.10651. The explosiveness is defined2 as the ratio I = (P M)/T where P is the death rate (on an annual basis) from...

EEG records of photosensitive epileptic patients with repeated EEG recordings at different seasons of the year, were examined for the occurrence of photoparoxysmal response to photic stimulation (photoparoxysmal discharges (PPD]. Recordings in summer showed a lower incidence of PPD compared with recordings in other seasons. Recordings in winter showed a higher incidence of PPD compared with rec...

This study was a prospective screening study for PPD and anergy skin test reactivity in 304 HIV-positive individuals. A PPD positivity rate of 4.1% and an anergy rate of 50.5% were observed. The Hawaii HIV population has a relatively low prevalence of latent TB compared with the high prevalence of TB in the Hawaii population at large.

We demonstrate a method which allows the stochastic modelling of quantum systems for which the generalised Fokker-Planck equation in the phase space contains derivatives of higher than second order. This generalises quantum stochastics far beyond the quantum-optical paradigm of three and four-wave mixing problems to which these techniques have so far only been applicable. To verify our method, ...

Accurate estimation of output quantiles is crucial in many use cases, where it desired to model the range possibility. Modeling target distribution at arbitrary quantile levels and input attribute are important offer a comprehensive picture data, requires function be expressive enough. The describing using critical for regression. Although various parametric forms distributions (that specifies)...

We discuss the application of the proportional hazard premium calculation principle in the parametric and non parametric framework. In the parametric approach, we propose a method to calculate the premium of a compound risk when the severity distribution is subexponential. In the non parametric approach, the use of the empirical distribution to calculate the premium using the proportional hazar...

As each set of microarray data is affected by variations in experimental conditions, appropriate normalization processes are required. Various approaches towards such normalization have been proposed and generally involve adjustments to every pair of the data sets, often between the simultaneously hybridizing R and G probes. Chen et al. [1] introduced a model in which each the signal ratio betw...