Cent ans d’éternité

Stepr¯ Ans' Problems

Cholinomimetic Agents – ANS Pharmacology

99 Cent : Price Points in

It has been argued that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site and find results confirming this theory. We can show that price points (special prices ending in 9 or 0...

The 45-cent Harvey Cushing stamp.

DeMatteo RP, Fong Y, Kemeny N, Blumgart LH, Saltz LB: Lack of evidence for increased operative morbidity after hepatectomy with perioperative use of bevacizumab: A matched case-control study. Ann Surg Oncol 2007; 14:759–65 33. Reddy SK, Morse MA, Hurwitz HI, Bendell JC, Gan TJ, Hill SE, Clary BM: Addition of bevacizumab to irinotecanand oxaliplatin-based preoperative chemotherapy regimens does ...

A one-cent room-temperature magnetoelectric sensor.

To the Editor – We face, after over two decades of not-so-benign neglect, a serious deficit of alternative-energy (AE)-oriented basic science researchers. Indeed, a major problem in meeting the global energy challenge may well be the paucity of top scientists pursuing AE-related research problems. This deficit has the potential to self-proliferate, because a limited core of experienced research...