since the beginning of the arab spring, scholars in different fields around the world have studied it, exploiting various approaches. one of these approaches is the cultural change in which survival and self-expression values are analysed. this approach is discussed in the present paper. given that collective actions in every country are in line with its cultural values and cultural changes, th...

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esophageal cancer is a lethal disease with poor survival rate. it is necessary to determine the extension, and the stage of the tumor to predict the outcome of patients. of the two common pathologic types, squamous cell carcinoma is still the most common form, and adenocarcinoma is the leading one. early diagnosis and radical treatment of esophageal cancer, regardless of tumor spreading, increa...

this study aimed at applying both growth and survival approaches to compare three native strains of lactobacilli, belonging to lactobacillus plantarum, lactobacillus rhamnosus and lactobacillus acidophilus species, with two commercial probiotic strains in their tolerance to acid and bile. the association between the data obtained from the methods was studied.  the results of the different metho...

The seemingly unrelated Poisson (SUP) model (King (1989a), see also Aptech (1994)) is a model for bior multi-variate counted outcomes. Correlation between equations is introduced through a convolution structure with a common additive factor. Previous economic applications include the joint analysis of voluntary and involuntary labour mobility (Jung and Winkelmann, 1993) and the number of recrea...