Abstract The phenomenon of bifurcation in disease transmission models has been observed in a number of epidemiological models.The consequence of bifurcation is that the classical requirement of the reproduction number being less than unity becomes only a necessary, but not EVERYONE LOTION MINT sufficient, for disease elimination.This paper addresse
Skeletal bone age assessment based on hand x-ray is widely used in many fields.There is an urgent need for automated method to alleviate manual labor and address the problem of intra- and inter-observer variability.Most existing methods modeled the task as regression or multiclass classification problems.However, the regression method over-simplifi
Most parents lie to their children.They do it for fun, as a method of behaviour control, and to protect children from what they consider to be dangerous truths.At the same time, most parents bring their children up with the message that honesty is a virtue and that lying is usually wrong.How should our practice and our preaching be reconciled? In t