BACKGROUND We estimated the chronic rejection of kidney transplant using an eternal Weibull regression. METHODS In this historical cohort study, we enrolled all patients with chronic renal failure who were admitted to Shahid Labbafinejad medical center (Tehran, Iran) from 1984 to 2003. Using Matlab 7.0, we considered the eternal proportion theta, as a logistic-type function of the covariates ...

Abstract On the rise over past 20 years has been ‘moderate supernaturalism’, view that while a meaningful life is possible in world without God or soul, much greater meaning would be only with them. William Lane Craig can read as providing an important argument for version of this view, according to which and soul could our lives have eternal, opposed temporally limited, significance since we t...

the problem of pleasure is one of the long life, great, effective and much as disputable during the human history. and a variety of philosophical-ethical schools, and also religions, divine and non-divine have paid attention - affirmatively or negatively - to it since a long time ago. although, avicenna has been affected in his definition of the pleasure by scholars of the past, but he had not ...

Stylistic composition is a creative musical activity, in which students as well as renowned composers write according to the style of another composer or period. We describe and evaluate two computational models of stylistic composition, called Racchman-Oct2010 and Racchmaninof-Oct2010. The former is a constrained Markov model and the latter embeds this model in an analogy-based design system. ...