DETERMINANTS OF TRANSITIONS IN WATER AND SANITATION SERVICES IN TWO URBAN SLUMS OF NAIROBI: A MULTI-STATE MODELING APPROACH

Determinants of transitions in water and sanitation services in two urban slums of Nairobi: A multi-state modeling approach

Access to improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services at the household level remains a good strategy to improve the health and well-being of individuals.Informal settlements, such as urban slums, are at risk of the spread of diseases due to the relative lack of access to safe, clean drinking water and basic sanitation, as well as poor h

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Optimal Test Plan of Step Stress Partially Accelerated Life Testing for Alpha Power Inverse Weibull Distribution under Adaptive Progressive Hybrid Censored Data and Different Loss Functions

Accelerated life tests are used to explore the lifetime of extremely reliable items by subjecting them to elevated stress levels from stressors to cause early failures, such as temperature, voltage, pressure, and so on.The alpha power inverse Weibull (APIW) distribution is of great significance and practical applications due to its appealing charac

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Design and operation of a distributed health data network

Introduction Several large health data networks such as FDA 730 sunken lake road Sentinel, PCORnet, and the Canadian Network of Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) facilitate multi-site research using real-world electronic health data such administrative claims data, electronic health record data and registries.Experience in operation of mut

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AEKF-SLAM: A New Algorithm for Robotic Underwater Navigation

In this work, we focus on key topics related to underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) applications.Moreover, a detailed review of major studies in the literature and our proposed solutions for addressing the problem are presented.The main goal of this paper is the enhancement of the accuracy and robustness of the SLAM-based naviga

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