Main causes of crisis distribution in the modern world are considered article. While COVID- 19 pandemic is spreading, problem and related crises have become main issues that attract attention both governments community. Rising unemployment, gender disparities, income inequality wealth some side effects coronavirus pandemic. The has exacerbated on all dividing lines society pushed back achieveme...

‎Several modifications of the Laplace distribution have been introduced and applied in various fields up to this day‎. ‎In this paper‎,  ‎we introduce a modified symmetric version of the classical Laplace distribution‎.  ‎We provide a comprehensive theoretical description of this distribution‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎we derive the formulas for th...

In both humans and experimental animals, the ability to perceive contours that are vertically or horizontally oriented is superior to the perception of oblique angles. There is, however, no consensus about the developmental origins or functional basis of this phenomenon. Here, we report the analysis of a large library of digitized scenes using image processing with orientation-sensitive filters...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Alzheimer's disease (AD) shares certain etiological features with autoimmunity. Prevalence of autoimmunity varies between populations in accordance with variation in environmental microbial diversity. Exposure to microorganisms may improve individuals' immunoregulation in ways that protect against autoimmunity, and we suggest that this may also be the case for AD. Here...

A b s t r a c t This paper takes a retrospective look at FedEx, a third party logistics intermediary that sought to capitalize on the rise of electronic commerce. By integrating virtual-world information technology and electronic commerce capabilities with real-world physical delivery of products through its air and ground transportation network, FedEx sought to exploit the new opportunities em...