It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional

“It never rains it pours!”

The most effective therapy for end stage liver disease is transplantation. Immunosuppression and surgical techniques have improved the long term survival of patients following liver transplantation; this had led to an increase in demand for organs (1). The liver has remarkable regenerative properties and because of this it is possible to transplant part of a liver into an individual. This can b...

“it never rains it pours!”

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NCER Working Paper Series It never rains but it pours: Modelling the persistence of spikes in electricity

During periods of market stress, electricity prices can rise dramatically. This paper treats these abnormal episodes or price spikes as count events and attempts to build a model of the spiking process. In contrast to the existing literature, which either ignores temporal dependence in the spiking process or attempts to model the dependence solely in terms of deterministic variables (like seaso...

When it rains, it pours: future climate extremes and health.

BACKGROUND The accelerating accumulation of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere is changing global environmental conditions in unprecedented and potentially irreversible ways. Climate change poses a host of challenges to the health of populations through complex direct and indirect mechanisms. The direct effects include an increased frequency of heat waves, rising sea levels that threate...

The European Convention on Human Rights and National Constitutional Reordering