BACKGROUND : Project success used to be measured solely in terms of efficiency metrics such as scope, cost and time; however, there are proposals that more attention should be paid to process-related performance factors ...

According to research children living with HIV experience elevated levels of depression, anxiety, ADHD and disruptive behavioural disorders. Although South Africa’s paediatric population that is infected with the human ...

Distribution-free control charts gained momentum in recent years as they are more efficient in detecting a shift when there is a lack of information regarding the underlying process distribution. However, a distribution-free ...

In this article, a subjective Bayesian approach is followed to derive estimators for the parameters of the normal model by assuming a gamma-mixture class of prior distributions, which includes the gamma and the noncentral ...

A well-designed clinical trial requires an appropriate sample size with adequate statistical power to address trial objectives. The statistical power is traditionally defined as the probability of rejecting the null ...

OBJECTIVE : The objective was to determine the preliminary psychometric performance of a new clinical feeding scale to diagnose oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD) in neonates. METHODS : Twenty neonates with a median gestational ...

Several studies have been conducted on decomposition patterns and rates of surface remains; however, much less are known about this process for buried remains. Understanding the process of decomposition in buried remains ...

In this paper a bivariate gamma type distribution emanating from the diagonal elements of an inverse Wishart type distribution is developed; which in turn originates from the complex matrix variate elliptical class. From ...

In this paper, we propose new results on a beta-Pareto class. This extension evolved by using newly proposed class of beta distributions as generator distributions (F (x)) within the generator-parent approach: H (x) = F ...

The inflammatory burden of the complex rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease affects several organ-systems, including rheological properties of blood and its formed elements. Red blood cells (RBCs) are constantly exposed to ...