Vincent Joshua

• Babcock University

Objectives: We used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 study results to explore the burden of high body mass index (BMI) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Methods: We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children (2-19 years) and adults (≥20 years) in 1980 and 2015. The burden of disease related to high BMI was...

Purpose: The shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) has been extensively evaluated for its psychometric properties using classical test theory (CTT). The purpose of this study was to evaluate its structural validity using Rasch model analysis. Methods: Responses to the SPADI from 1030 patients referred for physiotherapy with shoulder pain an...

GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Obesity Collaborators

E‐Table 1: Prevalence of overweight and obesity, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UI) among adults aged 20 years or older (Global Burden of Disease 2015 study, Eastern Mediterranean countries, 1980 and 2015) E‐Table 2: Prevalence of overweight and obesity, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UI), among children aged 2–19 years (Global Burden of Disease...

Summary Background 18% of the world’s population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates...

QUANTIFY API USAGE Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other, the purpose of this study is quantify or measure API Usage in software applications . As any other piece of productized software, the modern API has its own software development lifecycle (SDLC) of designing, te...

A bstract When a neighborhood declines, the poor get poorer, crime rises, and those who can leave the area. The tax base shrinks, so the rates paid by those least able to pay increase. The prevailing system of a low tax on land values leads to land speculation and private land banking, assuring that the landowner can hold out for a very high price...

Increased levels of bacterial resistance to antibiotics noted in recent decades poses a significant obstacle to the effective treatment and prevention of disease. Although overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine is partially responsible, environmental exposure to heavy metals may also contribute to antibiotic resistance, even in the abse...

Ignoring security threats can have serious consequences; therefore host machines in network must continually be monitored for intrusions since they are the final endpoint of any network. As a result, this paper presents an Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IIDPS), which monitors a single host system from three different layers;...