‎In this paper‎, ‎indirect collocation approach based on compactly supported radial basis function (CSRBF) is applied for solving Volterra's population model. The method reduces the solution of this problem to the solution of a system of algebraic equations‎. ‎Volterra's model is a non-linear integro-differential equation where the integral term represents the effect of toxin‎. ‎To solve the pr...

OBJECTIVE Breakthrough cancer pain (BTCP) represents a considerable economic burden. A decision-analysis model was developed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of intranasal fentanyl spray (INFS) compared with oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC) and fentanyl buccal tablet (FBT) for the treatment of BTCP. METHODS The model was parameterized for Sweden to estimate the costs and benefits a...

background: water, sanitation and hygiene have a very important role in public health. poor sanitation is the cause of water contamination, which causes many types of diseases. the aim of this paper was to present the attributable death and disability adjusted life year (dalys) of untreated water and insanitary environments from 1990 to 2010 in iran.   methods: in the global burden of disease 2...

Age-related decline in processing speed has long been considered a key driver of cognitive aging. While the majority of empirical evidence for the processing speed hypothesis has been obtained from analyses of between-person age differences, longitudinal studies provide a direct test of within-person change. Using recent developments in longitudinal mediation analysis, we examine the speed-medi...

This paper defines a catalog of distribution primitives for Distributed User Interfaces. These primitives are classified into four categories and represents operations that the developers and/or the users can executes to distribute the UI. Author

The classical two person bargaining problem, as set forth by Nash in 1950, consists of a compact convex subset S of the plane, and a point s E S. A point (x^, X2) in S represents the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility available to each player as a result of some feasible agreement, and the set S represents the set of all feasible utility payoffs. The point s = (s^, Sj) represents the utility of th...

We study the problem of matching bidders to items where each bidder i has general, strictly monotonic utility functions ui,j(pj) expressing his utility of being matched to item j at price pj . For this setting we prove that a bidder optimal outcome always exists, even when the utility functions are non-linear and noncontinuous. We give sufficient conditions under which every mechanism that find...