AIM Stress relief is commonly provided as a reason for smoking. However, it is plausible that the cost of smoking may create financial stress, particularly among the poor. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between smoking and financial stress. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of households from private dwellings conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), using a s...

The IEEE working group is currently standardizing a new media access control MAC protocol for the emerging Hybrid Fiber Coax HFC networks Crucial for the success of will be its ability to support Quality of Service QoS for delay and throughput sensitive applications such as multimedia Two methods are presented in this thesis to provide QoS e cient interoperability with Asynchronous Transfer Mod...

Using cable modems that operate at several hundred times the speed of conventional telephone modems, many cable operators are beginning to offer World Wide Web access and other data services to residential subscribers. Initial experiences indicate that real-world Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) networks are susceptible to a variety of radio-frequency impairments that significantly reduce the benefit...

The hypersonic effect is a phenomenon in which sounds containing significant quantities of non-stationary high-frequency components (HFCs) above the human audible range (max. 20 kHz) activate the midbrain and diencephalon and evoke various physiological, psychological and behavioral responses. Yet important issues remain unverified, especially the relationship existing between the frequency of ...

A análise das provas do Enade 2017 dos cursos de licenciatura em ciências e matemática permitiu uma reflexão sobre quais temas abordagens da história filosofia ciência (HFC) são importantes na formação docente, ponto vista Inep. Após a seleção itens envolvendo conteúdos HFC, encontramos evidências que avaliação desses foi fragmentada, dificultando o diálogo entre os eixos científico, pedagógico...

Economic games such as the Ultimatum Game (UG) and Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) are widely used paradigms for studying fairness and cooperation. Monetary versions of these games involve two players splitting an arbitrary sum of money. In real life, however, people's propensity to engage in cooperative behavior depends on their effort and contribution; factors that are well known to affect perception...

This paper studies the economic impact of the current global economic downturn on the household sector. Household budgets can be negatively affected by declines in nominal wages and increases in unemployment. We empirically test this effect for the Czech economy. As a result of the lack of individual data on the Czech household finances, micro data are simulated. Our analysis clearly points out...

BACKGROUND Healthcare financing should be equitable. Fairness in financial contribution and protection against financial risk is based on the notion that every household should pay a fair share. Health policy makers have long been concerned with protecting people from the possibility that ill health will lead to catastrophic financial payments and subsequent impoverishment. A number of studies ...

This paper considers an optimal life insurance for a household subject to mortality risk. The household receives wage income continuously, which could be terminated by unexpected premature loss of earning power. In order to hedge the risk of losing income stream, the household enters a life insurance contract. The household may also invest their wealth into a financial market. Therefore, the pr...