Will this pandemic be the catalyst to finally reform humanitarian responses?

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Cycle Time Prediction: When Will This Case Finally Be Finished?

A typical question for people dealing with administrative processes is: “When will my case be finished?”. In this paper, we show how this question can be answered, using historic information in the form of event logs of the systems supporting these administrative processes. Many information systems record information about activities performed for past cases in logs. Hence, to provide insights ...

Yes, Virginia, there will be healthcare reform.

More than 100 years ago, a young girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to Santa Claus. 1 A newspaper reporter, impressed by the girl's innocence, edi-torialized this quest to believe in a fantasy representing good in the world by penning the famous line, " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. " This story came to mind a few weeks ago, when I was having breakfast with my daughter-in-law ...

Targeting MET in Lung Cancer: Will Expectations Finally Be MET?

The hepatocyte growth factor receptor (MET) is a potential therapeutic target in a number of cancers, including NSCLC. In NSCLC, MET pathway activation is thought to occur through a diverse set of mechanisms that influence properties affecting cancer cell survival, growth, and invasiveness. Preclinical and clinical evidence suggests a role for MET activation as both a primary oncogenic driver i...

Will this paper ever be cited?

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...