Custom-made beast of burden

Custom Made Mold Brachytherapy

Beast of Burden? Comments on the NIH Genetic Testing Registry.

The Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) is a voluntary registry of genetic tests initiated and created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Field et al, 2011). Given the proliferation of tests for many genetic conditions, the NIH recognized that a centralized public database for information about these tests was needed. NIH launched the GTR project ‘‘to advance public health and research in t...

A custom-made head pointer for children.

Severely physically disabled adults and children may be able to use a head pointer to access an augmentative communication system or to participate in activities. This paper describes how to make and fit a thermoplastic head pointer and how to train a child to use it.

Two-stage pricing for custom-made products

A commonly observed two-stage pricing strategy for a custom-made product involves a prepurchase entry fee for a potential consumer and a purchase price if he decides to buy the product. We solve and compare two settings: In the first, the firm does not commit in advance to the second-stage price and in the second, the firm does. We show that without a commitment mechanism, the two price points ...

Custom-made healthcare – An experimental investigation

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