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Thrombophilie bei jungen Menschen

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a rare disease that is being increasingly diagnosed and recognized in paediatrics in the past decade, usually as a secondary complication of primary severe underlying diseases. Apart from acquired thrombophilic risk factors, such as lupus anticoagulants, inherited thrombophilias (IT) have been established as risk factors for venous thromboembolic events in adults...

Bedürfnislandschaft älterer Menschen in Österreich

Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts mit dem ÖIAT und B-NK wurden in einer Cultural Probe Studie die Bedürfnisse älterer, zuhause lebender Menschen (60+) in Österreich erforscht. Die Testpersonen dokumentierten ihre Wünsche, Bedürfnisse und Ärgernisse und lieferten zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die Entwicklung von mobilen Apps für SeniorInnen. Die dominierenden Themen waren hierbei Unterstützu...

Robert Wo Crandall

In recent years, it has become increasingly fashionable to attribute a myriad 0f our economic and social difficulties to excessive government regulation. If we are to believe the rhetoric, government regulation is partly or largely to blame for soaring inflation, lagging growth in GNP, declining productivity growth, the decline in the value of the dollar, and even general reductions in the anim...

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Poor (Wo)man’s Bootstrap∗

The bootstrap is a convenient tool for estimating standard errors of the parameters of complicated econometric models. Unfortunately, the fact that these models are complicated often makes the bootstrap extremely slow or even practically infeasible. This paper proposes an alternative to the bootstrap which is only based on estimation of one-dimensional parameters. The paper contains no difficul...