background: the annual statistics of drug and poison information centers (dpics) have critical role in public health planning. the objective of this study was to provide annual epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to iran’s dpics during 2014-2015. methods: this was a descriptive retrospective study by reviewing reported phone calls of iranian dpics to central ...

WPaxos is a multileader Paxos protocol that provides low-latency and high-throughput consensus across widearea network (WAN) deployments. Unlike statically partitioned multiple Paxos deployments, WPaxos perpetually adapts to the changing access locality through object stealing. Multiple concurrent leaders coinciding in different zones steal ownership of objects from each other using phase-1 of ...

We use daily data from Lombardy, the Italian region most affected by COVID-19 outbreak, to calibrate a SIR model on each municipality. Municipalities with higher initial number of cases feature lower rate diffusion, not attributable herd immunity: there is robust and strongly significant negative correlation between estimated basic reproduction (R0) outbreak size. This represents novel evidence...

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In September 2012, the Dutch Supreme Court upheld a judgment of Hague Appeal that eviction from basic shelter mother and her minor children, who did not have legal residence in Netherlands, was unlawful. This ruling instigated by radically new interpretation European Social Charter’s personal scope caused major shift policy. article provides case study into reasoning adopted Court. It argues th...

drug and poison information centers have a critical role in fulfillment of rational drug use programs. the loghman-hakim drug and poison information center (lhdpic) has been established in 2006. the main mission of this center is to provide accurate, unbiased and upto- date information on medications and poisons for the health care team and the public. this center has received more than 9000 te...

background: poisoning is one of the main causes of visits to emergency departments and hospitals in iran. drug and poison information centers (dpic) are reliable sources to guide poisoned patients and provide information about pharmaceutical agents. this study was designed to analyze recorded phone calls to iran dpics during 2011-2012. methods: this was a retrospective study on phone calls to d...

A new approach to support the development of distributed software systems is outlined. As far as static aspects are concerned, standard object-oriented design methods are used. Dynamic aspects like status of services or resource handling in objects and methods, however, play the key role in distributed systems. The main contribution of the approach is a method which puts the focus on these aspe...