This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...

If Xi is a log-normal r.v., show product of all Xi is also a log-normal r.v. $$ \label{eq:Z-lognorm-para} \mu = \sum_{i=1}^n \mu_i \quad \text{and} \quad \sigma^2 = \sum_{i=1}^n \sigma_i^2 ; . $$ ...

Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

Abstract: This paper presents the derivation for per-tier outage probability of a randomly deployed femtocell network over an existing macrocell network. The channel characteristics of macro user and ...

I have estimated an RC model and then attempted to run a simulation using the results by changing some values in a dummy variable from 0 to 1. I encountered a similar problem to issue #119 where the ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of close formula approximation for pricing European mortgage options. Under the assumption of logistic duration and normal mortgage rates the underlying ...

DISM is a useful utility. In addition to repairing corrupted system image files, you can also use the DISM tool for other purposes, like installing, uninstalling, updating, and configuring Windows ...

As vaccines roll out around the world, the question on everybody’s mind, is what does the journey back to “normal” look like? A new normal won’t return at the flip of a switch. We need to understand ...