background: carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders among computer users. computer users exhibit various wrist angles while typing. dynamic changes of wrist angle may cause different degrees of median nerve compression. the objective of this study was thus to investigate the effects of the combination of wrist flexion-extension with wrist deviation on me...

For robust detection performance, traditional control chart monitoring for biosurveillance is based on input data free of trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behaviour. Time series forecasting methods may be used to remove this behaviour by subtracting forecasts from observations to form residuals for algorithmic input. We describe three forecast methods and compare their predicti...

Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW (2013). On the weighting of the mean-absolute-deviation cost minimization model. Abstract The mean-absolute-deviation cost minimization model, which aims to minimize sum of the mean value and the absolute deviation (AD) of the total cost multiplied by a given non...

Semi-absolute deviation is a commonly used downside risk measure in the portfolio optimization problem. However, there is no literature on taking semi-absolute deviation as a risk measure in the framework of uncertainty theory. This paper fills the gap by means of defining semi-absolute deviation for uncertain variables and establishes the corresponding mean semi-absolute deviation models in un...

A vectorcardiographic method has been developed for determining the absolute size of myocardial infarcts in baboons resulting from coronary artery ligation. Spatial area (mvolt . msec) and voltage (mvolt) difference-vectors were obtained for 8 animals by measuring the voltage loss and temporal deviation from pre- to post-ligation McFee scalar leads. The difference vectors were then correlated w...

We investigate asymptotic properties of least-absolute-deviation or median quantile estimates of the location and scale functions in nonparametric regression models with dependent data from multiple subjects. Under a general dependence structure that allows for longitudinal data and some spatially correlated data, we establish uniform Bahadur representations for the proposed median quantile est...