It remains unclear which children and adolescents with resected nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma (NRSTS) benefit from radiation therapy, as well as the optimal dose, volume, and timing of radiotherapy when used with primary surgical resection. This paper reviews the sparse literature from clinical trials and retrospective studies of resected pediatric NRSTS to discern local recurrence ra...

This work builds a ridesharing model that compares the successful matching rate and detour cost of ridesharing with three types of social connections (i.e., friends) in a small-world network: direct friends, direct or indirect friends, and anyone. How much is trust: The cost and benefit of ridesharing with friends Yaoli Wang1, Nicole Ronald1,2, Ronny Kutadinata1, Stephan Winter1 1 Department of...

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...