This paper investigates whether advertising has a beneficial or deleterious impact on the demand for magazine subscriptions. If consumers consider advertising a ‘bad,’ publishers must subsidize consumers through lower subscription prices or additional editorial content. If advertising is a ‘good,’ then consumers are willing to pay because it adds value to the magazine bundle. We employ data des...

AIMS Implementation of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Danish municipalities has been analyzed using the Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Municipalities were chosen from among those who presented their health policies on websites according to the status of inclusion of HIA into health policy. METHODS Qualitative interviews were conducted in 6 municipalities (3 with HIA inducted in th...

A calculational procedure is formulated for extracting differential cross sections in the ejected energy from a time-dependent wave-packet method for the electron ionization of hydrogen. The procedure is applied to an s-wave model for electron-hydrogen scattering. In contrast to recent time-independent methods, the differential cross sections are found to be smooth and symmetric. @S1050-2947~97...

OBJECTIVES This paper aimed to employ subject matter experts (SMEs) to assess the extent to which the Korean version of the short-form of the OHIP (OHIP-14 K) is culturally valid and equivalent in Korean. METHODS We approached 17 bilingual Korean SMEs from which 10 independently rated the clarity, relevance, and cultural equivalence of the OHIP-14 K. SME's varied between 10 and 41 years of cl...

The first health impact assessment (HIA) performed on a high level local government policy in New Zealand was undertaken on the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy in 2005. This report describes its development and implementation and the results from the process evaluation including some recommendations made in the assessment. We concluded that HIA is a useful tool for local governm...

Helium nanodroplet isolation is used to produce van der Waals-bound quartet state alkali trimers ~Na3 and K3! selectively over the corresponding chemically bound doublet trimers. Frequency-resolved excitation and emission spectroscopy reveals the presence of nonadiabatic spin–flip processes in the electronically excited states. A total of four quartet to quartet electronic transitions are obser...

Background/introduction High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) surgery often requires hours of ablation in order to treat an entire tumor. Both perfluorocarbon gaseous microbubbles and vaporized liquid droplets are known enhancers of HIFU thermal ablation. Microbubbles, however, often lead to surface or skin lesions. Furthermore, they have a relatively short half-life in vivo (minutes) render...