The widely adoption of the novel Internet services of the last decade, e.g., web 2.0 services, cloud services, and cloud computing, modified the structure of the whole Internet ecosystem. Contrary to the earlier disperse structure, where each service had its own server to be operated on, the infrastructures of the current cloud services are highly centralized; numerous services are run by a sin...

OBJECTIVE To provide guidance on selecting the most appropriate price index for adjusting health expenditures or costs for inflation. DATA SOURCES Major price index series produced by federal statistical agencies. STUDY DESIGN We compare the key characteristics of each index and develop suggestions on specific indexes to use in many common situations and general guidance in others. DATA C...

Research and development’s role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is crucial. More specifically, to achieve a sustainable environment, of environment-related research development expenditures, along with renewable energy development, also important. This study focuses on perspective environment via building knowledge-based economy. A economy more oriented, its undeniable ensuring d...

the authors examine the effects of government expenditure on economic growth in iran, using annual data for the period of 1973-2003. in this paper, they lookat the offects of human, physical capital, and government budget on gdp. in the model developed in this paper, accumulation of human capital is dependent on physical. human capital, and government budget as well. the result indicate that go...

OBJECTIVES As the Target Project of Tuscany Region is aimed to identify significant changes occurring during the time of the project compared to the previous years, we have analyzed antifracture drugs consumption in the years immediately preceding the start-up of the program. METHODS We have analyzed the regional administrative database to search for antifracture drugs delivered by the region...

model of the type used to forecast the effects on an industry of changes in the national economy is described. The components representing input data and the type of output from such a model are discussed. This paper is intended as a tutorial discussion of an advanced application in data processing. Input-output models are used to forecast various effects that can occur to an industry as it int...

Using a sample of monthly observations of both a 12-category group and a 203-category group of personal consumption expenditures, we furnish evidence that relative price variability is positively related to both the inflation rate and inflation variability. The relation is robust to oil-price shocks.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

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