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BACKGROUND The use of NSAID medications is a well-established effective therapy for both acute and chronic nonspecific neck and back pain. Extreme complications, including gastric ulcers, bleeding, myocardial infarction, and even deaths, are associated with their use. An alternative treatment with fewer side effects that also reduces the inflammatory response and thereby reduces pain is believe...

Industries such as Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Hospitality and Technology are currently experiencing high attrition rates. You, as a HR manger or senior management executive, may know some apparent causes for attrition in your company. And you also know the high costs of attrition and the negative impact it has on customer facing scenarios. But how often have you felt that if you had known...

We analyze the risk-taking behavior of political candidates who are uncertain about the values voters assign to various policy platforms. We show that the majoritarian and proportional electoral systems lead to different outcomes. The proportional system penalizes risky platforms more than the winner-take-all system. Since candidates choose “safer” platforms, in the proportional system voters f...

Abstract Crystal structures connected by continuous phase transitions are linked through mathematical relations between crystallographic groups and their subgroups. In the present study, we introduce group-subgroup machine learning (GS-ML) show that including materials with small unit cells in training set decreases out-of-sample prediction errors for large cells. GS-ML incurs least cost to rea...

Real-world problems are becoming highly complex and therefore have to be solved with combinatorial optimization (CO) techniques. Motivated by the strong increase in publications on CO, 8393 articles from this research field subjected a bibliometric analysis. The corpus of literature is examined using mathematical methods novel algorithm for keyword In addition most relevant countries, organizat...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, health care providers take responsibility for a defined patient popu­lation, coordinate their care across settings, and are held jointly accountable for the quality and cost of care. This issue brief reports on results from a survey that assesses hospitals' readiness to participate in ACOs. Results sho...