"Healthcare costs continue to rise and are approaching a crisis." This oft-repeated refrain appears in both popular and professional media and commentaries. However, the cost-containment discussion ...

There is a considerable body of research demonstrating value signals in the brain while participants engage in a variety of decision-making tasks, particularly in the medial orbitofrontal and adjacent ...

Long-term survival in small-cell lung cancer: posttreatment characteristics in patients surviving 5 to 18+ years--an analysis of 1,714 consecutive patients. Effect of low-dose prophylactic dopamine on ...

The notion of the univariate divided differences is generalized to the multivariate case. This generalization is based on a pointwise evaluation of a certain multivariate function. Several properties ...

This paper considers some univariate and multivariate operational risk models, in which the loss severities are modeled by some weakly tail dependent and heavy-tailed positive random variables, and ...

Dasatinib (D) in combination with weekly (w) paclitaxel (P) for patients (pts) with metastatic breast carcinoma (MBC): A phase I/II study. Background: In the absence of curative treatment for the ...