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If you would like to submit art for consideration for the cover of The Permanente Journal, please use the following guidelines… Send us a high-quality color photograph of your art no smaller than 4x5 and no larger than 8x10. Portrait orientation is preferred. On the Cover/ " Spring " by Wuhao (Taki) Tu, MD. Dr. Tu is a retired nephrologist-internist. He worked for The Permanente Medical Group f...

Influence of coastal vegetation on the 2004 tsunami wave impact in west Aceh.

In a tsunami event human casualties and infrastructure damage are determined predominantly by seaquake intensity and offshore properties. On land, wave energy is attenuated by gravitation (elevation) and friction (land cover). Tree belts have been promoted as "bioshields" against wave impact. However, given the lack of quantitative evidence of their performance in such extreme events, tree belt...

Stock Market Fraud Detection, A Probabilistic Approach

In order to have a fair market condition, it is crucial that regulators continuously monitor the stock market for possible fraud and market manipulation. There are many types of fraudulent activities defined in this context. In our paper we will be focusing on "front running". According to Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, front running is a form of insider information and thus is very ...

Citation advantage of Open Access articles likely explained by quality differential and media effects

In a study of articles published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Gunther Eysenbach discovered a significant citation advantage for those articles made freely-available upon publication (Eysenbach 2006). While the author attempted to control for confounding factors that may have explained the citation differential, the study was unable to control for characteristics of th...

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