This paper incorporates a rich set of physical water quality attributes, as well as site and household characteristics, into a model of recreational lake usage in Iowa. Our analysis shows individuals are responsive to physical water quality measures. Willingness-to-pay estimates are reported based on improvements in these measures.

In today's healthcare system, there is an imbalance between what patients expect of caregivers' care and their perception of the care they get. How is it possible to reduce this imbalance? The aim of this paper was to describe attributes associated with meaningful encounters in the Swedish healthcare system based on patients' and caregivers' written narratives and to note the differences and si...

In This Issue In This Issue Rabs make their way to mitochondria he large family of Rab GTPases has various functions, including the assembly of proteins required for endocytosis and membrane trafficking. Now, a new function for a Rab is emerging. On page 659, Alto et al. describe a Rab that affects mitochon-drial fission. This GTPase, Rab32, also has an unusual binding partner, the cAMP-depende...

Recreation and leisure are of paramount importance in human life. This article makes a comparison different recreational areas categories. The main focus this research is the current situation Russian amusement theme parks market. A European parks, their attributes, qualities, popularity revenue given. uses data gathering, analysis synthesis to illustrate insufficiencies park development Federa...

Abstract. Environmental data are the key to defining and addressing water quality quantity challenges at catchment scale. Here, we present first large-sample set for 1386 German catchments covering a large range of hydroclimatic, topographic, geologic, land use, anthropogenic settings. QUADICA (water QUAlity, DIscharge Catchment Attributes studies in Germany) combines with data, meteorological ...

Previous studies in the issue of inventory models with imperfect quality assumed the defectives could be sold in a batch by the end of the inspection process and the manufacturing systems were push systems. However, the above assumptions may not be true in the pull system in which buyer is powerful. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a new inventory model for items with imperfect quality and ...

Innovation management is a priority type of implemented in highly competitive markets. Despite the relative stability content and structure innovation management, it can be various variants subject to evolution depending on state andtrends environment. Timely identification prerequisites for adjusting an important condition ensuring competitiveness enterprises, regions country as whole. The hyp...

The paper interprets the concept “operator in separable complex Hilbert space” (particalry, “Hermitian operator” as “quantity” is defined “classical” quantum mechanics) by that of “quantum information”. As far wave function characteristic probability (density) distribution for all possible values a certain quantity to be measured, definition mechanics means any unitary change distribution. It c...

Like many other quality attributes, food safety tends to degrade after harvest, but unlike losses in quantity and are not readily observable by market actors. This implies the absence of incentives address specifically. To extent that is correlated with valued may affect price indirectly, partially correcting this information failure. We analyze aflatoxin, a carcinogenic fungal contaminant, vis...