Modeling real estate prices in the context of hedonic models often involves fitting a Generalized Additive Model, where only the mean of a (lognormal) distribution is regressed on a set of variables without taking other parameters of the distribution into account.Thus far, the application of regression models that model the full conditional distrib

Cybersecurity continues to be a significant problem for all industries involved in digital activities, and it is specified as the cyclical surge in security occurrences.Considering more Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being employed in the medical field, homes, transportation, offices, and other locations, malicious attacks are arising more re

The churches in Rwanda: Disappointments and challenges -and lessons for South Africa.The author, one of a team of South Africans invited to Rwanda to advise the newly appointed Unity and Reconciliation Commission, gives an overview of the political developments that led to the bloody genocide (February-April 1994) during which more than a million R

Summary:.Up to 36.7% of symptomatic read more COVID-19 patients will have telogen effluvium (TE), which refers to diffuse scalp alopecia.With the continuing global pandemic, a review of literature reports unpredictable and incomplete recovery with conventional treatment like minoxidil.The pathogenesis of COVID-19-induced TE may be more severe than

Abstract Thermal-stress events have changed the structure, biodiversity, and functioning of coral reefs.But how these disturbances affect the dynamics of individual coral colonies remains unclear.By tracking the fate of 1069 individual Acropora and massive Porites coral colonies for up to 5 years, spanning three bleaching events, we reveal striking