This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production of apples in the German ‘Alte Land’ region. The estimated cost of climate change on apple-growing in the ...

Poster Master Thesis: “Verification of Implant Supported Fixed Presentations: Dental Prostheses: Evaluation of Gap Distance and Polymerization Time” -University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, March 2013 Publications: Tsai, AC, Morel, CF, Scharer, G, Yang, M, Lerner-Ellis, JP, Rosenblatt, DS, Thomas, JA: Late-onset combined homocystinuria and methylmalonic aciduria (cblC) and neuro...

A rare case of peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) is reported. A 68-year-old woman complaining of lumbago was admitted to our hospital. Diagnosis was made based on pathological findings characterized by Homer Wright-type rosettes. Ultrastructural examination showed the presence of neurosecretory granules and short cytoplasmic processes, which were highly suggestive of neural diff...

Pulmonary chondroid hamartomas (PCH) are biphasic benign tu mors that contain both mesenchymal and epithelial populations. In this report we describe two PCH in which clonal translocations at chromo some band 6p21 were demonstrated in mesenchymal cells. One of these had a unique translocation, t(6;14Xp21;q24), that was also found in one of two PCH karyotyped previously. The t(6;14) has not been...

A boy with trigonocephaly, cleft palate, multiple minor anomalies, flexion deformities of elbows, cryptorchidism, and severe muscular hypotonia had an unbalanced karyotype with duplication of the distal 17q and deletion of the tip of 2p. This was derived from a reciprocal translocation in the father, 46,XY,t(2;17)(p25;q24). The propositus had some findings observed in patients with distal dup(1...

A multi-attribute, stated-preference approach is used to value low and high impact actions on four major landscape components addressed by the Rural Environment Protection Scheme in Ireland. Several methodological issues are addressed: the use of prior beliefs on the relative magnitudes of parameters, standardized description of different levels of landscape improvements via image manipulation ...

We specify a system of equations that fully reflects the supply and demand sides of the market for agricultural open space at equilibrium. Although simple, the system is exceedingly flexible and allows for household and parcel heterogeneity. We derive an empirical model directly from the structural equations and contrast this using a simulated landscape with the econometric specification most o...