The new england journal of medicine 927 health policy report For more than four decades, beginning with an investigation chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1950s, debate has raged over the economics of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Critics point to monopolistic pricing and high profits; defenders emphasize the advances in medical therapy achieved by the industry. In this arti...

The business world has changed the way how people think and act on products and services. In this context, the most recent amendment of the scenarios of retail operations has been the use of technology in sales and distribution. The internet has revolutionized the way people communicate, and moreover as they purchase their goods and services. Thus, the e-commerce, specifically the relation busi...

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business activity. Since local governments are disproportionately funded through property and sales taxation, declinin...

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have provided improved means of serving data in business-to-business (B2B) communications. Usually, however, the flow of data from services is limited by the service provider, and different providers may limit to vastly different rates, leading to different quality of services (QoSs) for each. In some cases, the data from these various providers must be syn...

This publication updates and refines a previous study on the same subject (Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy, CTAHR Economic Issues publica­ tion EI-2, February 2000). That publication emphasized that estimates of agriculture’s contributions vary depend­ ing on what is defined as agriculture and on the method­ ology used to develop the estimates. As we define it here, agriculture i...

this research develops a two-level model based on hypotheses, which concern relationships among role ambiguity, role conflict, job involvement and salesperson performance at individual level and collective sale self efficacy, customer orientation and competitive climate at sale unit level in iranian food industry. data was drawn from 482 sales people in 30 companies , using a 51-item self-repor...

Motivated by frequently repeated activities of negotiating similar sales contracts and inadequate studies of business-tobusiness (B2B) negotiation processes, we formulate a meta-model of e-Negotiation based on a practical meta-model for eContract template and template variables to allow flexible support for a variety of negotiation processes. Based on our metamodels, we develop an effective imp...

In Zimbabwe, over 25% of adults are HIV positive [1]. To curtail the epidemic, the government started promoting condom use, especially in non-marital relationships. Since 1996, Population Services International (PSI) has implemented a USAID/British Department for International Development-funded condom social marketing program that distributes subsidized Protector Plus condoms, and promotes the...