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Background: Anaemia is defined as a clinical abnormality characterized by reduction in haemoglobin concentration below the normal for age, sex, physiological condition and altitude from the sea level of a person. It can be of different types, the commonest being iron deficiency anaemia which affects mostly pregnant and lactating females and growing children in the developing world. The present ...

Though the reputation of eugenics has been tarnished by history, eugenics per se is not necessarily a bad thing. Many advocate a liberal new eugenics--where individuals are free to choose whether or not to employ genetic technologies for reproductive purposes. Though genetic interventions aimed at the prevention of severe genetic disorders may be morally and socially acceptable, reproductive li...

We propose a new type of short to moderate block-length, linear error-correcting codes, called moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. The number of one’s of the parity-check matrix of the codes presented is typically higher than the number of one’s of the parity-check matrix of low-density paritycheck (LDPC) codes. But, still lower than those of the parity-check matrix of classical block c...

At the end of the last century, Brenner and Hall [1] argued that the fractionation sensitivity of prostate cancer was different from most tumors and normal tissues, with the opportunity to increase the therapeutic ratio by treating this cancer with hypofractionation (fewer, larger daily fractions). Nearly two decades later, the use of moderate hypofractionation for prostate cancer has become an...

We establish logarithmicasymptotics of moderate deviations for the processes of queue length and waiting times in single server queues and open queueing networks in critical loading. Our results complement earlier heavy-traac approximation results.

Let (Xn)n≥1 be a sequence of random variables on a probability space (Ω, ,P) and p ≥ 1 a fixed real number. We say that (Xn)n≥1 is Lp-bounded if it has finite pth moments, that is, ‖Xn‖p ≤ C for some C > 0 and any n ≥ 1. Let ε > 0; finding the rate of convergence of the moderate deviations probabilities P[|∑k=1Xk| > εan] with an = (n logn)1/2 or (n loglogn)1/2 is known in the literature as Davi...

1 MODERATE HOLISM AND THE INSTABILITY THESIS* Mental or semantic holism can be roughly characterized as the doctrine that the meanings of one’s sentence or the contents of one’s beliefs are a function of (are determined by) their relations to all of one’s other sentences and beliefs. Holistic theories of meaning and content are typically criticized for (among other things) leaving the ideas of ...

It is well known that direct training of deep neural networks will generally lead to poor results. A major progress in recent years is the invention of various pretraining methods to initialize network parameters and it was shown that such methods lead to good prediction performance. However, the reason for the success of pretraining has not been fully understood, although it was argued that re...

Introduction Obesity-related glomerulopathy is an established secondary glomerular disease that may occur in obese individuals with a body mass index (BMI) of ≥30 kg/m2. However, patients with moderate obesity (BMI ≤ 30 kg/m2) may also develop this disease. Methods A total of 20 patients with grade 1 obesity (25 ≤ BMI < 30 kg/m2) with persistent proteinuria, without evidence of other renal di...