APPROXIMATION OF THE COX SURVIVAL REGRESSION MODEL BY MCMC BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL POISSON MODELLING OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDHOOD MORTALITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract The need for more pragmatic approaches to achieve sustainable development goal on childhood mortality reduction necessitated this study.Simultaneous study of the influence of where the children live and the censoring nature of children survival data is scarce.We identified the compositional and contextual factors associated with under-five

The development of a control system for the dive plane control of non-linear biorobotic autonomous underwater vehicles, equipped with pectoral-like fins, is the subject of this paper.Marine Vehicle Lights animals use pectoral fins for swimming smoothly.The fins are assumed to be oscillating with a combined pitch and heave motion and therefore produ

Reliability and cost are two important targets for distributed storage systems.For many years, numerous schemes have been proposed to improve the reliability or cost of distributed storage systems, and they can be divided into three categories: (1) Health data redundancy schemes; (2) data placement schemes; and (3) data repair schemes.However, it i

The migration of Pacific salmon is an important part of functioning freshwater ecosystems, but as populations have decreased and ecological conditions have changed, so have migration patterns.Understanding how the environment, and human impacts, change salmon migration behavior requires observing migration at small temporal and spatial scales acros

Character education must be grounded in basic human character that comes from universal moral values (absolute) sourced from revealed religion which is also called the golden rule.Character education can have a definite purpose when grounded in the values of the base character.According to psychologists some basic values of the ALPHA LIPOIC ACID ch