ANTICIPATING EPIDEMIC TRANSITIONS WITH IMPERFECT DATA.

Anticipating epidemic transitions with imperfect data.

Epidemic transitions are an important feature of infectious disease systems.As the transmissibility of a pathogen increases, the dynamics of disease spread shifts from GPS limited stuttering chains of transmission to potentially large scale outbreaks.One proposed method to anticipate this transition are early-warning signals (EWS), summary statisti

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The Effect of Audit Committee Characteristics on the Relationship between Audit Report Timeliness and Auditor Task Complexity

This paper is aimed to review the effect of audit committee characteristics on the relationship between audit report timeliness and auditor task complexity in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE).After analyzing the theoretical foundations and research hypotheses through systematic sampling, 39 Oven Select Switch companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exc

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Toxicity of Flare and Crude Hydrocarbon Mixtures

The toxicity of whole, saturate, and aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures from flare pit and crude oil sources were evaluated using Lumbricus terrestris.Body burden analysis was used to analyze the intrinsic toxicity of the six hydrocarbon mixtures.The major fractions of the whole mixtures, the saturate, and aromatic fractions had different intrinsic toxi

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Colorectal Carcinoma Affected Patients Are Significantly Poor Responders Against the Oncogenic JC Polyomavirus

BackgroundMany investigations reported the association between human tumors and JCPyV, a polyomavirus with oncogenic potential.The association has been supported by studies that found JCPyV footprints in CRC and gliomas of different types.Indeed, JCPyV footprints including its nucleic acids and Tag oncoprotein have been revealed in CRC tissues.Meth

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