This thesis assesses the methods used in economic evaluation, the relationship of economic evaluation to decision-making and investigates the possible limitations of economic evaluation as it is currently used to support policies aimed at maximising population health gain. It then evaluates alternative methods of analysing data from economic evaluations to better inform policy decisions. The hy...

soil characteristics is very important in water erosion processes. the present investigation was conducted in gully lands of ardebil province, iran, to assess the role of soil texture and structure on aggregate stability using wet sieve method. to achieve the study purposes, mean weighted diameter of aggregates was calculated, and its relationships with lime and clay percentages, sodium absorpt...

Ranking-aware queries have been gaining much attention recently in many applications such as search engines and data streams. They are, however, not only restricted to such applications but are also very useful in OLAP applications. In this paper, we introduce aggregation ranking queries in OLAP data cubes motivated by an online advertisement tracking data warehouse application. These queries a...

The sources of aggregate productivity growth are explored using detailed data for four-digit U.S. manufacturing industries during 1958-96 and a decomposition formula which allows to quantify the contribution of structural change. Labor productivity as well as total factor productivity are considered and the aggregation is performed with either value-added or employment shares. It is shown that ...

Frequent sequential pattern mining with constraints is the task of discovering patterns by incorporating the user defined constraints into the mining process, thus not only improving mining efficiency but also making the discovered patterns to better meet user requirements. Though many studies have been done, few have been carried out on the ‘‘tough aggregate constraints’’ due to the diffIculty...

Katz et al. provided a generic transform to construct aggregate message authentication codes and imposed a lower bound on the length of one aggregate MAC tag. The lower bound shows that the required tag length is at least linear with the number of messages when fast verification such as constant or logarithmic computation overhead is required. Aggregate message authentication codes are useful i...

Aggregate timber supply by ownership was investigated for a small region by applying stand-level harvest choice models to a representative sample of stands and then aggregating to regional totals using the area-frame of the forest survey. Timber harvest choices were estimated as probit models for three ownership categories in coastal plain southern pine stands of North Carolina using individual...

 Non-cooperative joint replenishment under asymmetric information Evren Korpeoglu, Kemal Guler, Alper Sen HP Laboratories HPL-2013-9 inventory competition; Joint replenishment; Economic order quantity model; asymmetric information; We consider jointly replenishing n ex-ante identical firms that operate under an EOQ like setting using a non-cooperative game under asymmetric information. In this...