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OBJECTIVE To describe the age-specific and lifetime incremental societal costs of autism in the United States. DESIGN Estimates of use and costs of direct medical and nonmedical care were obtained from a literature review and database analysis. A human capital approach was used to estimate lost productivity. These costs were projected across the life span, and discounted incremental age-speci...

One of the strategic decisions that can be made in supply chain is designing its network which has high impact on costs, and satisfaction level of customers. This paper focuses on designing a distribution network including determining the number and location of facilities, how to allocate the customers in network, and also determining the extent of carrying different products from different ori...

Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old survey, we estimate the stochastic process that determines both the distribution and dynamics of health care costs. We find that the data generating process for log health costs is well represented as the sum of a white noise process and a highly persistent AR(1) process. We also find that the ...

The consolidation of Distribution Centers (DCs) is a new trend in global logistics management, with a reduction in inventory costs often being cited as one of the main bene®ts. This paper uses an analytical modeling approach to study the impact on facility investment and inventory costs when several DCs are consolidated into a central DC. In particular, our model suggests that consolidation lea...

Earlier work by Waugh (2010) suggests that asymmetric market access costs across exporting countries are a major reason for differences in real per-capita income around the globe: 25% − 50% (depending on the measure) of world income inequality could be explained by cross-country trade cost asymmetries alone. We show that these results were driven by what we call model under-specification, an il...

The adverse effects of financial crises in terms of output losses or output growth below its potential can be treated like losses from catastrophic events which have a low likelihood but a large impact in the event that they occur. We therefore analyze GDP losses in terms of frequency (number of loss events per period) and severity (loss per occurrence). Crises’ frequency, severity, and the ass...

Growing integration of distributed energy resources (DER) presents the electric power sector with the potential for significant changes to technical operations, business models, and industry structure. New physical components, control and information architecture, markets, and policies are required as the power system transitions from one of centralized generation and passive load to a network ...

ÐData locality and workload balance are key factors for getting high performance out of data-parallel programs on multiprocessor architectures. Data-parallel languages such as High-Performance Fortran (HPF) thus offer means allowing a programmer both to specify data distributions, as well as to change them dynamically in order to maintain these properties. On the other hand, redistributions can...