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Background Primary healthcare is crucial for universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries. While research on ...

Abstract: In practical applications, sampled-data systems are often affected by unforeseen physical constraints that may cause deviations in the sampling interval from the expected value and result in ...

Objective: People often have their decisions influenced by rare outcomes, such as buying a lottery and believing they will win, or not buying a product because of a few negative reviews. Previous ...

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Future events are far from certain in the business world. This is especially true for smaller businesses, which tend to have more volatility than larger organizations, or newer businesses without a ...