Transforming scientific evidence into better consumer choices

Transforming scientific evidence into better consumer choices

Translational research using evidence-based and comparative effectiveness research continues to evolve, becoming a useful tool in improving informed consent and decision-making in the clinical setting. While in development, emerging technologies, including cellular and molecular biology, are leading to establishing evidence-based dental practices. One emerging technology, which conjoins bench p...

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Transforming Rhetorical Document Profile into Tailored Summary of Scientific Paper

Since abstract of scientific paper is author biased, readers’ required information may not be included in the abstract. Tailored summary may help them to get a summary based on their information needs. This research is the first one that implements tailored summary system for scientific paper. Tailored summary applies information extraction that transforms a scientific paper into Rhetorical Doc...

Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels

Information provision is a key element of government energy-efficiency policy, but the information that is provided is often too coarse to allow consumers to make efficient decisions. An important example is the ubiquitous yellow “EnergyGuide” label, which is required by law to be displayed on all major appliances sold in the United States. These labels report energy cost information based on a...

Temi Di Discussione Do Better Institutions Mitigate Agency Problems? Evidence from Corporate Finance Choices Do Better Institutions Mitigate Agency Problems? Evidence from Corporate Finance Choices

This paper examines how firm characteristics, the legal system and financial development affect corporate finance decisions using a novel and unexplored data set containing balance sheet information for listed and unlisted companies. Contrary to the previous literature, by using data on unlisted companies of small dimension, the paper shows that institutions play an important role in determinin...