A new coronavirus, MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus) which is related to the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak 10 years ago, has been discovered in Saudi Arabia and observed in several other countries since 2012. A mathematical model is constructed in order to theorize possible patterns of the spread of this emerging disease which seems to require an extended conta...

The question how aquatic populations persist in rivers when individuals are constantly lost due to downstream drift has been termed the "drift paradox." Recent modeling approaches have revealed diffusion-mediated persistence as a solution. We study logistically growing populations with and without a benthic stage and consider spatially varying growth rates. We use idealized hydrodynamic equatio...

Meta-analysis is a standard statistical method used to combine the conclusions of individual studies that are related and the results of single study alone can not answered to deal with issues. The data are summarized by one or more outcome measure estimates along with their standard errors. The multivariate model and the variations between studies are not considered in most articles. Here we d...

This paper sheds some light on the problems associated with random effects gravity approaches. Arguments for the superiority of a fixed effects model are given both along intuitive and econometric lines based on a Hausman test.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

This paper uses data drawn from the English Football League to model separate hazard rates for club managers for the 2001/2, 2002/3 and 2003/4 seasons. On average over the three seasons, approximately one-third of managers involuntarily exited employment status with their club. We model the hazard using a standard logistic model exploiting information on the spell at risk rather than the indivi...

let $g$ be a finite group‎. ‎we say that $g$ has emph{spread} r if for any set of distinct non-trivial elements of $g$ $x:={x_1,ldots‎, ‎x_r}subset g^{#}$ there exists an element $yin g$ with the property that $langle x_i,yrangle=g$ for every $1leq ileq r$‎. ‎we say $g$ has emph{exact spread} $r$ if $g$ has spread $r$ but not $r+1$‎. ‎the spreads of finite simple groups and their decorations ha...

This paper studies the interplay between social distancing and spread of COVID-19 disease—a global pandemic that has affected most world’s population. Our goals are to (1) observe correlation strictness policies disease (2) determine optimal adoption level policies. The earliest instances virus were found in China, reached United States with devastating consequences. Other countries severely by...