Introduction Antimicrobial stewardship efforts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) largely focus on qualified ...

Grand Junction is about to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a resident survey that is unlikely to produce trustworthy results. The city plans to mail the survey to 5,400 residents while also ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

Abstract: Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are promising methods for solving high-dimensional expensive problems. The basic idea of SAEAs is the integration of nature-inspired ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Dividends by the Numbers series tracked the US stock market's dividend metadata, which provided a simple, near real-time method of measuring the relative health of the US economy. We've opted to focus ...

Background: In this paper, the basic elements related to the selection of participants for a health research are discussed. Sample representativeness, sample frame, types of sampling, as well as the ...

This paper outlines the design features, data collection methods and analytic strategies of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey, a prospective study of more than 2000 ...

Abstract: Computer clusters with the shared-nothing architecture are the major computing platforms for big data processing and analysis. In cluster computing, data partitioning and sampling are two ...

This work presents a generalized approach for analytical method optimization that branches the gap between techniques historically employed and accurate modern optimization techniques suitable for ...

Landslides, recognized as a significant global natural disaster, necessitate an exploration of the impact of various resolution types in sampling strategies on Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (LSM) ...