The index case or patient zero is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population, or the first documented patient included in an...
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work by economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller, whose team calculated the home price index back to 1890. Case and Shiller's index is normalized to a value...
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Case mix index (CMI) within health care and medicine, is a relative value assigned to a diagnosis-related group of patients in a medical care environment...
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allowing dynamic content to be used as the index page (e.g. index.cgi, index.pl, index.php, index.shtml, index.jsp, default.asp) even though it may be more...
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The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative...
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store the upper-case versions of the last_name field in the index. Another option sometimes supported is the use of partial index, where index entries are...
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The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed...
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during the 1976 epidemic in Zaïre. She was incorrectly identified as the index case by several sources, but a World Health Organization commission report...
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is identified as having a communicable disease (often called the index case). This case may be reported to public health or managed by the primary health...
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Gaëtan Dugas (redirect from Case O57)
and bisexual men, to indicate his role in a particular cluster of 40 AIDS cases in the United States. He was named "Patient O" with "O" standing for "Out-of-California"...
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In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is the ratio of the apparent speed of light in the air or vacuum to the speed...
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patient zero in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Patient zero, or the index case, is the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population...
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scale, growing exponentially). An index of 0 corresponds to zero UV radiation, as is essentially the case at night. An index of 10 corresponds roughly to midday...
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Robert Rayford (category Index cases)
European AIDS case Index case History of HIV/AIDS Timeline of early AIDS cases Timeline of HIV/AIDS "Headline: AIDS / History / Rayford Case". Vanderbilt...
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This article is a chronological list of United States criminal case law articles on Wikipedia that discuss the Fourth Amendment constitutional provision...
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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: Index of Forbidden Books) was a changing list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the...
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VIX (redirect from Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index)
market price to its valuation formula. In the case of VIX, the option prices used are the S&P 500 index option prices. The VIX takes as inputs the market...
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Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie" /ˈfʊtsi/, is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of...
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as Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index and was updated to Henley Passport Index in January 2018. The index annually ranks 199 passports of the world...
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A diversity index is a method of measuring how many different types (e.g. species) there are in a dataset (e.g. a community). Diversity indices are statistical...
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Ebola in Nigeria (section Index case)
2013 in the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou Prefecture, Guinea, was the index case of the Ebola virus disease epidemic. His mother, sister, and grandmother...
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The Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position...
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Dow Jones Industrial Average (redirect from Dow Jones index)
Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ˈdaʊ/), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States...
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The Hang Seng Index (HSI) is a market-capitalisation-weighted stock market index in Hong Kong adjusted for free float. It tracks and records daily changes...
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theorem and Riemann–Roch theorem, as special cases, and has applications to theoretical physics. The index problem for elliptic differential operators...
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Search engine indexing is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates...
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singer Teni Réttur (transl. Case), an Icelandic drama series CASE, a fictional robot in Interstellar (film) CASE 30, an index of the Cairo & Alexandria...
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Poincaré–Hopf theorem (redirect from Poincaré-Hopf index formula)
Poincaré–Hopf theorem (also known as the Poincaré–Hopf index formula, Poincaré–Hopf index theorem, or Hopf index theorem) is an important theorem that is used...
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A price index (plural: "price indices" or "price indexes") is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class...
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2^{2}+0.2^{2}=0.20} . The Herfindahl Index (HHI) ranges from 1/N (in case of perfect competition) to 1 (in case of monopoly), where N is the number of...
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