Little is known about the economics of plaintiff-side law firms, which typically work on a contingency fee basis. We begin here to fill that gap. We report on the fees received by 124 plaintiff-side personal injury firms located in four states (Illinois, Texas, and two additional undisclosed states), and estimate the impact of various statutory fee caps on those firms. At all of the firms, case...

For a set of n points in the plane, this paper presents simple kinetic data structures (KDS’s) for solutions to some fundamental proximity problems, namely, the all nearest neighbors problem, the closest pair problem, and the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) problem. Also, the paper introduces KDS’s for maintenance of two well-studied sparse proximity graphs, the Yao graph and the Semi-Ya...

aim: this study is aimed to elicit the possible correlation between breast and colon cancer from molecular prospectiveby analyzing and comparing pathway-based biomarkers.background: breast and colon cancer are known to be frequent causes of morbidity and mortality in men and womenaround the world. there is some evidence that while the incident of breast cancer in young women is high, it is repo...

Background: Using transcriptomic data at initiation of therapy, we recently identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) that separated IL-17Ai response from non-response 1 . Integration cell-type-specific DEGs with protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and further comprehensive pathway enrichment analysis revealed Rho GTPase signaling exhibited a strong signal specific to particularly the ge...

The effects of chemical and organic fertilizers on saffron (Crocus sativus) were studied in a field experiment using a complete randomized block design with three replications at ferdowsi university of Mashhad. Fertilizers applied were N, P, K, NP, NK, PK, NPK, cow, sheep and chicken manure. The amount of chemical fertilizer applied were 50, 30, 30, 48, 48, 36, 66 kg/ha for N, P, K, NP, NK, PK,...

extended abstract 1. introduction from about the 1950s, extraordinary growth of cities and increase of urban population have led to excessive growth of settlements in cities (muhallab taha, 2001(. this growth caused an unprecedented rise in land prices (zaheri & pour- mohammadi, 2006). land is an essential element in urban expansion and development (vander molen, 2002). therefore, quality and q...

Though it is clear that it is impossible to store an unlimited amount of information in visual working memory (VWM), the limiting mechanisms remain elusive. While several models of VWM limitations exist, these typically characterize changes in performance as a function of the number of to-be-remembered items. Here, we examine whether changes in spatial attention could better account for VWM per...