background different strategies for addressing the challenge of prioritizing elective patients efficiently and fairly have been introduced in norway. in the time period studied, there were three possible outcomes for elective patients that had been through the process of priority setting: (i) high priority with assigned individual maximum waiting time; (ii) low priority without a maximum waiti...

For all integers $k,d$ such that $k \geq 3$ and $k/2\leq d \leq k-1$, let $n$ be a sufficiently large integer (which may not divisible by $k$), $s\le \lfloor n/k\rfloor-1$. We show if $H$ is $k$-uniform hypergraph on vertices with $\delta_{d}(H)>\binom{n-d}{k-d}-\binom{n-d-s+1}{k-d}$, then contains matching of size $s$. This improves recent result Lu, Yu, Yuan also answers question Kühn, Osthus...

I propose the purpose our concept of actual causation serves is minimizing various cost in intervention practice. Actual causation has three features: non-redundant sufficiency, continuity and abnormality; these features correspond to the minimization of exploitative cost, exploratory cost and risk cost in intervention practice. Incorporating these three features, a definition of actual causati...

Executive Summary This paper presents NIC and iSCSI performance results comparing Chelsio’s T580-CR and Intel’s latest XL710 “Fortville” server adapter running at 40Gbps. The results demonstrate that Chelsio’s NIC provides consistently superior results, lower CPU utilization, higher throughput and drastically lower latency, with outstanding small I/O performance. The T580 notably delivers line ...

This paper is concerned with the null distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic for testing the equality of variances of q nonnormal populations. It is known that the null distribution of this statistic converges to w q 1 under normality. We extend this result by obtaining an asymptotic expansion under general conditions. Numerical accuracies are studied for some approximations of the perc...