The authors examine the compatibility of price elasticity estimates obtained from store sales and panel purchase data. If the store and panel models are not comparable, comparison of the estimates could be confounded since differences could arise due to data and/or model related effects. To overcome this confound, analytically equivalent models are specified for store and panel data. This ensur...

The paper offers a secondary analysis from a grounded theory doctoral study that reconsiders its “grounded systemic design” (Mitchell, 2005, 2007). While theorists across multiple disciplines fiercely debate the ontological implications of Niklas Luhmann’s autopoietic systems theory (Deflem 1998; Graber and Teubner 1998; King and Thornhill 2003; Mingers 2002; Neves 2001; O’Byrne 2003; Verschrae...

Basic science and applied science instruction are compatible and essential for animal science professionals to succeed in their chosen career. Application of science is a continuum. Although production methods are constantly evolving, the science on which changes are made is fixed and fundamental. Only our understanding changes. We are educating students in preparation for a life-long learning ...

The cause of growth retardation in the inherited blood disorder b-thalassemia major (b-thal) has long been a subject of debate. This has become an issue in the last few years since children with b-thal are undergoing hypertransfusion and iron chelation therapy, and now living well into their thirties and forties. Therefore, in addition to growth retardation, many of the endocrinopathies such as...

prognosis (M1c). Of course the statistics are not to blame for this, but performing a second trial in another part of the world may decrease such bias due to differences in clinical practice and therefore inclusion policies. Also, with more effective drugs becoming available in several tumor types, the effect of a single novel drug will be more difficult to evaluate when overall survival is the...

Quantum models of mind associate consciousness to coherent superposition of states in the brain. Some authors consider consciousness to be the result of a kind of internal quantum measurement process in the brain. In this paper we discuss the ideas of Hameroff Penrose and Tegmark and their calculation for an estimate of decoherence time. We criticize the Hameroff Penrose model in the context of...