Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

The Bank of Japan lifted interest rates to their highest level in three decades, signalling further tightening ahead. The shift is reviving concerns over rising global bond yields and the risk of ...

Abstract: With its inherent causal reasoning and superior capacity for handling uncertainty, the belief rule base (BRB) has been widely applied in complex systems modeling. As a generalization of ...

Abstract: Understanding the errors and uncertainties is important for the applications of oceanic remote sensing data products. In this study, an error modeling ...

After a few tumultuous years for the economy, mortgage shoppers could finally see some stability in 2026. With the Bank of Canada signalling it’s settled into a prolonged rate hold, there isn’t any ...

The Bank of Canada may be holding interest rates for the foreseeable future, but last week’s bond market volatility has shaken up fixed mortgage rates as 2025 comes to a close. The Canada five-year ...

Rhode Island officials on Tuesday released new images and video of a person of interest as the search continued for the shooter who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Police have released a photo of a person of interest in the horrifying and random chemical attack that severely burned a woman in a Savannah park on Dec. 10. The Federal Bureau of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A person of interest detained after a Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine will be released after law enforcement authorities determined there ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its influential interest rate for the third time this year, pointing to a job market that Chairman Jerome Powell said may be weaker than it appears. The cut of a ...

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle ...

The Bank of Canada is scheduled to make its next decision about interest rates on Dec. 10, which will be its last chance this year to move the rates up, cut them, or hold them steady. Most economists ...