"Healthcare costs continue to rise and are approaching a crisis." This oft-repeated refrain appears in both popular and professional media and commentaries. However, the cost-containment discussion ...

There is a considerable body of research demonstrating value signals in the brain while participants engage in a variety of decision-making tasks, particularly in the medial orbitofrontal and adjacent ...

Long-term survival in small-cell lung cancer: posttreatment characteristics in patients surviving 5 to 18+ years--an analysis of 1,714 consecutive patients. Effect of low-dose prophylactic dopamine on ...

The notion of the univariate divided differences is generalized to the multivariate case. This generalization is based on a pointwise evaluation of a certain multivariate function. Several properties ...

Dasatinib (D) in combination with weekly (w) paclitaxel (P) for patients (pts) with metastatic breast carcinoma (MBC): A phase I/II study. Background: In the absence of curative treatment for the ...

This paper considers some univariate and multivariate operational risk models, in which the loss severities are modeled by some weakly tail dependent and heavy-tailed positive random variables, and ...