More Pumps Better?

Oxygen – less is better , more is better ? ?

Altitude training has been employed as a tool for enhancing performance by athletes since the 1964 Mexico Olympics. The cost and impracticality of going to altitude regularly has led to the development of altitude simulation at sea level by creating low oxygen (‘hypoxia’) environments. ‘Altitude’ or ‘hypoxic’ training facilities are now springing up all around the country. The evidence supporti...

Sometimes, more is better.

(See the article by El Sahly et al, on pages 703–12.) Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality with an estimated 36 000 attributable deaths in the United States annually [1]. Human immunodefi-ciency virus (HIV) infection, specifically , advanced disease (CD4 count ,200 cells/lL), has been associated with excess morbidity and mortality [2]. With the use of combination antiretroviral ...

Is More Entrepreneurship better?

We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs (Coase, 1937, and subsequent literature) is difficult to relate to these well-established dynamics. Our approach focuses on changing incentiv...

Better business, more money.

When it comes to investing in a practice management (PM) system, practice managers want to see gains in efficiency and fatter bottom lines. Even if they choose a PM system that’s coupled with an electronic medical record (EMR), their primary goal is to boost their practices’ efficiency through more accurate and speedier billing, resulting in faster reimbursements from payers. To achieve these g...

Is more better?