“it never rains it pours!”

“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...

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...

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: Real-time Situational Awareness for Two Weather Emergencies in Connecticut

Introduction On August 28, 2011 Tropical Storm Irene made landfall in Connecticut. On October 29, 2011 Connecticut was impacted by Winter Storm Alfred. Both of these storms included high winds and heavy precipitation which resulted in prolonged power outages, disruption of public drinking water systems, property damage, and widespread debris throughout the state. The HEDSS System was utilized t...

Comment : When it Rains , It Pours : Procyclical Capital flows and Macroeconomic Policies

Abdominal Trauma: Never Underestimate It

Introduction. We present a case of a sports injury. The initial presentation and clinical examination belied serious intra-abdominal injuries. Case Presentation. A 16-year-old male patient came to emergency department after a sports-related blunt abdominal injury. Though on clinical examination the injury did not seem to be serious, FAST revealed an obscured splenorenal window. The CT scan reve...