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Self - Sabotage ∗
We analyze the incentives of a vertically-integrated producer (VIP) to engage in “self-sabotage”. Self-sabotage occurs when a VIP intentionally increases its upstream costs and/or reduces the quality of its upstream product. We identify conditions under which self-sabotage is profitable for the VIP even though it raises symmetrically the cost of the upstream product to all downstream producers ...
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متن کاملThe Burgeoning HIV/HCV Syndemic in the Urban Northeast: HCV, HIV, and HIV/HCV Coinfection in an Urban Setting
INTRODUCTION Despite recommendations for generation-based HCV and once lifetime HIV screening, thousands of individuals in the U.S. still remain untested and undiagnosed. This cross-sectional study examines the correlates of HCV and HIV monoinfection and HIV/HCV coinfection in an urban Northeast setting. METHODS Utilizing an electronic database from a mobile medical clinic in New Haven, CT fr...
متن کاملEffect of HCV on lipids profile of HIV patients
Abstract Background: There is a high prevalence of HCV-HIV co-infection. In this group of patients increase of insulin resistance and lipodystrophy has been discovered but still sufficient data about the lipid profile has not been performed. In this research we tried compare the lipid profile changes between HIV-HCV patients with HIV and HCV mono infected patients that came to Imam Khomeini c...
متن کاملVI. HIV Treatment in HIV/HCV Coinfection
There are many unresolved questions regarding treatment of HIV in people coinfected with HIV and HCV. There are no United States treatment guidelines created specifically for HIV/HCV coinfection. This creates confusion among coinfected people and their clinicians, and variations in patient care. The optimal sequencing of treatment for HIV and HCV is unclear. Treating HIV first may prevent HCV d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science-Business eXchange
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1945-3477
DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2008.273