The philosophy and effect of Anarchy is that of a boundless and striking one. Anarchy in society bears the ability to tear at the seams of its structure and bring humanity down to its very basic needs. Anarchy dissolves political power and government, and can leave authority or even hegemony in the hands of the dominant human. It is true to be said, (as I quote Eric Schmidt, former chief execut...

Abstract. The evaluation of structured credit products like baskets and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) most often relies on the simulation of correlated default times for the underlying pool of credit instruments. Given the distribution of a default time vector one can find the distribution of the corresponding (cumulative) default quote path for a portfolio. In this note we show that t...

Background and aims: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge worldwide, with adverse consequences of kidney failure, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and premature death. Chronic kidney disease leads to the end stage of renal disease (ESRD), if late/not diagnosed. Competing risk modeling is a major issue in Epidemiology research. In Epidemiology study, sometimes inappropriate met...

aim : this study aims to investigate some clinical and pathologic factors associated with the prognosis of patients with colon and rectum cancers separately. background : colorectal cancer is the most common cancer of the digestive system and also the fourth cause of cancer-related deaths around the world. different studies indicate that survival of patients with colorectal cancer has improved ...

Abstract This paper provides a guide to high-frequency option trade and quote data disseminated by the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA). We present comprehensive overview of U.S. market, including details on market regulation trading processes for all 16 constituent exchanges. review existing literature that utilizes options data, summarizes general structure OPRA dataset, presents thor...