Insights Offered by Economic Analyses

Insights Offered by Economic Analyses

Economic analyses may be used to describe the costs of health care programs and to ensure that value is obtained for the money spent. This issue of Diabetes Care includes three economic analyses. The first describes the incremental costs of diabetes over a lifetime and highlights how interventions to prevent diabetes may reduce lifetime costs (1). The second demonstrates that although an expens...

New Possibilities Offered by IPv6

The new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [1] has many simplifications and new features compared to the older Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) [2]. The new header is very simple. A fixed format is assigned to all headers. Some new fields were added to the header. Flow ID indicates that the packet belongs to a certain flow. A flow is identified by the source address, destination address, and ...

New insights offered by a computational model of deep brain stimulation.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a standard neurosurgical procedure used to treat motor symptoms in about 5% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Despite the indisputable success of this procedure, the biological mechanisms underlying the clinical benefits of DBS have not yet been fully elucidated. The paper starts with a brief review on the use of DBS to treat PD symptoms. The second sect...

Tau Peptides Offered by Bachem

Economic Insights from Internet Auctions

457 1 Bajari: Duke University and NBER. Hortacsu: University of Chicago and NBER. We thank the editor, two anonymous referees, Ginger Jin, Axel Ockenfels, David Reiley, Paul Resnick, and Alvin Roth for their very detailed and insightful comments on various drafts of this document. We thank the National Science Foundation for partial research support, grants SES-0012106 (Bajari) and SES-0242031 ...