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Pareto law of the expenditure of a person in convenience stores

open access: yes, 2007
We study the statistical laws of the expenditure of a person in convenience stores by analysing around 100 million receipts. The density function of expenditure exhibits a fat tail that follows a power law.
Anderson   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Effective performance of the 2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology classification criteria for Antineutrophil‐Cytoplasmic‐Antibody‐Associated Vasculitis in Pediatric Patients: an ARChiVe Study

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective To assess the 2022‐ACR/EULAR classification criteria for ANCA‐associated vasculitis (AAV) in children with chronic small‐to‐medium vessel vasculitis. Methods A cohort of 574 patients, identified by physician's‐(MD)‐diagnosis in A‐Registry‐of‐Childhood‐Vasculitis, were classified by computation of registry data, as having granulomatosis with ...
David A. Cabral   +41 more
wiley   +1 more source

Typhoid-associated acute kidney injury masquerading as a relapse of Takayasu arteritis

open access: yesSaudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2017
Renal dysfunction is common in Takayasu arteritis. Uncommonly, renal failure in a case of Takayasu arteritis can be due to an unrelated disease, and if the disease is a rare complication, it is even more difficult to diagnose.
Revanasiddappa Manjunath   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of high-resolution foreign exchange data of USD-JPY for 13 years

open access: yes, 2002
We analyze high-resolution foreign exchange data consisting of 20 million data points of USD-JPY for 13 years to report firm statistical laws in distributions and correlations of exchange rate fluctuations.
Ghashghaie   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Prescribing competence: The pros and cons of different methods for assessment

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Evaluating a medical graduate’s competence in rational prescribing is challenging. With the aim to guide and inspire teachers, this narrative review explores different methods that can be used to assess prescribing competence. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and thus a mix of different assessment methods is needed throughout the ...
David J. Brinkman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bronchiectasis and hoarseness of voice in takayasu arteritis: a rare presentation

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2012
Background Takayasu arteritis is a large vessel vasculitis occurring in young females. We report a rare presentation of Takayasu arteritis in a Sri Lankan woman.
ND Perera Gamage   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aortic valve replacement surgery for a case of infantile Takayasu arteritis [PDF]

open access: yesKorean Journal of Pediatrics, 2012
Takayasu arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology primarily affecting the aorta and its major branches and usually occurring in the second or third decade of life.
Hye Won Kwon   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pareto index induced from the scale of companies

open access: yes, 2005
Employing profits data of Japanese companies in 2002 and 2003, we confirm that Pareto's law and the Pareto index are derived from the law of detailed balance and Gibrat's law. The last two laws are observed beyond the region where Pareto's law holds.
Amaral   +24 more
core   +1 more source

Takayasu arteritis

open access: yesDefinitions, 2020
A 31-year-old woman was admitted because of hypertension. She often had unexplained fever and had taken tranquilizers due to general malaise, with little effect, for a few months before admission.
Alexander McClanahan, Laura L. Hayes, MD
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Procalcitonin in Takayasu Arteritis [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Rheumatology, 2014
To the Editor: Procalcitonin (PCT) is an acute-phase protein, a precursor of the hormone calcitonin1. Microbial constituents and proinflammatory mediators such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and interferon-γ induce ubiquitous PCT expression during bacterial, parasitic, or fungal infections1,2.
Tombetti, Enrico   +8 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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