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Why are we still struggling to control the devastating effects of childhood tuberculosis? This disease has been with us since ancient times and yet, even with known effective prevention and treatment strategies, much of the world has unacceptable levels of childhood morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis. As expected, progress in identification and treatment has occurred primarily in high-...

In this note we explore a useful equivalence relation for the delay distribution in the G/M/1 queue under two different service disciplines: (i) PS (Processor Sharing); and (ii) ROS (Random Order of Service). We provide a direct probabilistic argument to show that the sojourn time under PS is equal (in distribution) to the waiting time under ROS of a customer arriving to a non-empty system. We ...

Islam has universal teachings, namely human values. Ali Shari'ati is one of the Islamic revolutionary thinkers who paid attention to humanism. According him, humanism a school philosophy that views groups aim achieve perfection in humans. emphasized humans are creatures have various values given by God. Humans most unique nature, because were created God as noblest creatures, their own freedom,...

Este artículo analiza los proyectos políticos frente a la modernidad occidental de dos pensadores islámicos más prominentes en segunda mitad del siglo XX Irán. La Revolución Islámica 1979 es habitualmente presentada como una revolución unicolor, orquestada y culminada por el Ayatolá Jomeini sus seguidores. Esta narrativa elude niega diversidad ideas, pensamientos que caracterizan Irán prerrevol...