The brain is probably the most interesting example of a complex network having 1/f variability as determined through the analysis of EEG time series and magnetoencephalogram recordings. Herein we develop a theory of 1/f noise of human cognition to explain the recent experimental observations...

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...

The increasing use of results from probabilistic risk assessments in the decision-making process makes it ever more important to eliminate simplifications in probabilistic models that might lead to conservative results. One area in which conservative simplifications are often made is modeling...