In the manufacturing processes, quantities like the proportion of defective units in a production lot may not be precisely known and most of the times the practitioners have to compromise with some imprecise (approximate) values. Prior knowledge of such quantities is required to evaluate the quality of a produced lot. In this paper, the properties of single sampling plan under situations involv...

Olive trees have been traditionally cultivated in dry conditions as it is a crop very well adapted to Mediterranean dry lands. Foliar fertilization is a widespread application method used by olive growers to correct frequent deficient levels of potassium in olive trees under rainfed conditions. Monopotassium Phosphate (MKP) is an economic and easily available fertilizer and a fast source of P a...

OBJECTIVES To (1) determine intrarater and test-retest reliability of the Five times sit-to-stand test (FTSTS) in Parkinson's disease (PD), (2) characterize FTSTS performance in PD at different disease stages, (3) determine predictors of FTSTS performance in PD, and (4) determine the utility of the FTSTS for discriminating between fallers and nonfallers with PD, identifying an appropriate cutof...

Methods City of San Diego Emergency Medical System runsheets of patients with chest pain from January 2003 to April 2008 were analyzed. The scene times and transport times were compared before (from January 2003 to December 2005) and after (from January 2006 to April 2008) implementation of the PH ECG. Among patients with a PH ECG, median scene times and transport times were compared in patient...

In this paper, we propose different strategies for simplifying filters, used as feature extractors, to be learnt in convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) in order to modify the hypothesis space, and to speed-up learning and processing times. We study two kinds of filters that are known to be computationally efficient in feed-forward processing: fused convolution/sub-sampling filters, and sep...

We give a new proof that the completion of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller space is Gromov-hyperbolic if the surface is a five-times punctured sphere or a twice-punctured torus. Our methods make use of the synthetic geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric.

The surplus process of an insurance portfolio is defined as the wealth obtained by the premium payments minus the reimboursements made at the times of claims or accidents. In this paper we address the problem of estimating derivatives of ruin probabilities with respect to the rate of accidents. We study two approaches, one via a regenerative storage process and the other via importance sampling...

A study was conducted in Missoula, Montana to compare local pollen counts from 1978 with those measured nearly 30 years later in 2006 using two different measurement techniques (Durham gravimetric sampler and a Burkard volumetric sampler). Trends in peak pollen times measured during the spring, summer and autumn, respectively, were compared between the two years by Pearson's correlation and fre...

introduction: some snails play an important role in the transmission of helminthes, mainly trematodes of medical and veterinary importance. there seems to be no information on the freshwater snails of gahar lake in lorestan province of iran. the present study aimed to identify medically important snails of this lake. methods: samples were collected from ten localities around gahar lake in april...