PURPOSE The borderline personality disorder is a common mental disorder. It is frequently associated with various mental co-morbidities and a fundamental loss of functioning. The borderline personality disorder causes high costs to society. The aim of this study was to perform a systematic literature review of existing economic evaluations of treatments for borderline personality disorder. MA...

An optimal control problem of an economic system with two criteria is considered in the paper. The Solow model of economic growth is used. Rate of consumption is a control variable, quality vector criterion is a discounted utility in the long-term and near-term. Pontryagin’s maximum principle is applied to the single criteria problem with weighted sum of two functionals. The existence of the so...

OBJECTIVE To provide a framework for addressing payers' criteria during the development of pharmaceuticals. METHODS A conceptual framework was presented to an international health economic expert panel for discussion. A structured literature search (from 2010 to May 2015), using the following databases in Ovid: Medline(®) and Medline(®) In-Process (PubMed), Embase (Ovid), EconLit (EBSCOhost) ...

in this paper the concept and the definition of the social and economic justice are evaluated considering the views of western and islamic thinkers and theorist and the focus is on the rationality. according to this evaluation, the criteria of economic justice in accordance with the islamic framework are extracted; which are: the equal availability of natural resources for everybody, the determ...

Nowadays, Spatial and social inequalities are universal and expanding phenomenon. Identification and spatial analysis of social, economic and ecological inequalities in metropolises is one of the essential and basic proceeding for planning and achieving urban sustainable development. The present research method is descriptive-analytical and using 13 sub criteria based on three main criteria of ...

undoubtly, land degradation causes apparent decrease of natural resources potential which are highly linked to desertification. different countries and also international organization have realized a great number of projects to combat desertification. unfortunately these projects have not reach to their goals. the experiences shows that the reason of these unsuccessful works is lack of consider...

This paper examines economic significance of the most important variables which explain home mortgage default, the voluntary default in particular, and discusses policy implications for the Chinese mortgage sector. It is suggested that to foster the residential market in the economic transition, policy makers should give more attention to standard underwriting criteria, early indicator, risk-sh...

The economic-driven evaluation of information technology (IT) has become an important instrument in the management of IT projects. Numerous approaches have been developed to quantify the costs of an IT investment and its assumed profit, to evaluate its impact on business process performance, and to analyze the role of IT regarding the achievement of enterprise objectives. This paper discusses a...