successful clearance of hepatitis b virus (hbv) is a promising event in which host's immune system will attempt to get rid of the virus. the immunological events of hbsag seroclearance have attracted great attention in both natural history investigations and therapeutic trials. recent genome-wide association studies (gwas) has confirmed polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (hla)-dp locu...

The issuance of multiple-event catastrophe bonds (MECBs) has the potential to increase in next few years. This is due increasing trend frequency global catastrophes, which makes single-event (SECBs) less relevant. However, there are obstacles issuing MECBs since pricing framework still little studied. Therefore, this study aims develop such a new framework. model uniquely involves three variabl...

peritoneal dialysis is an established form of renal replacement therapy used in many patients with end-stage renal disease. the key to a successful chronic peritoneal dialysis is a permanent and safe access to the peritoneal cavity. this study was conducted in order to evaluate the catheter survival and its related factors in imam khomeini hospital. a total of 80 catheters were inserted into 69...

This paper may be considered as a practical reference for those who wish to add (now sufficiently matured) Agent Based modeling to their analysis toolkit and may or may not have some System Dynamics or Discrete Event modeling background. We focus on systems that contain large numbers of active objects (people, business units, animals, vehicles, or even things like projects, stocks, products, et...

Logging and post-mortem analysis of workkow executions are important tasks of a workkow management system. In this paper, we show how both tasks are addressed in EvE, a prototypical distributed system implementing event-driven workkow execution. Essentially, both tasks beneet from the concept of an event history as it is present in active database systems. By using event-based workkow execution...

I congratulate Clauset and Woodard (2013) on a very interesting article. The authors analyze a global terrorism dataset with the aim of quantifying the probability of historical and future catastrophic terrorism events. Using power law, stretched exponential, and log-normal tail probability models for the severity of events (# deaths), the authors make a convincing argument that a 9/11 sized ev...