Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification.

BackgroundMedia reporting on communicable diseases has been demonstrated to affect the perception of the public.Communicable disease reporting related to foreign-born persons has not yet been evaluated.ObjectiveExamine how political leaning in the media affects reporting on tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born persons.MethodsHealthMap, a digital surve

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Estimation precision of degree of polarization in the presence of signal-dependent and additive Poisson noises

We address precision of estimation of the degree of polarization (DOP) from the Women’s Pants Jeans orthogonal state contrast image (OSCI) in the presence of both signal-dependent Poisson noise due to useful signal, and additive Poisson noise due to dark current and / or background light.We determine the Cramer Rao Lower Bound BATH SALT and deduc

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