Mod 24_1. This next question is about the percent of people’s income that they should pay in taxes to the federal government. Which one of the following opinions best agrees with your view? You can just tell me the number of the opinion you choose. One: People who make more money should pay a larger percent of their income in taxes to the government than people who make less money. Two: people ...

OBJECTIVE To undertake a cost-effectiveness analysis that compares pulse oximetry as an adjunct to clinical examination with clinical examination alone in newborn screening for congenital heart defects (CHDs). DESIGN Model-based economic evaluation using accuracy and cost data from a primary study supplemented from published sources taking an NHS perspective. SETTING Six large maternity uni...

Compound real options are combinations of real options, where an exercise of a real option opens another real option. Compound real options are commonly found in a number of industrial projects, but are especially relevant in, e.g., research and development (R&D) where the R&D projects give the real option to research further, or to start the implementation of the results. Valuation of compound...

The aggregate welfare measure for a change in the provision of a public good derived from a contingent valuation (CV) survey will be higher if the same elicited mean willingness to pay (WTP) is added up over individuals rather than households. A trivial fact, however, once respondents are part of multi-person households, it becomes almost impossible to elicit an “uncontaminated” WTP measure tha...

100 000 quinacrine nonsurgical female sterilizations have been completed over the past decade involving transcervical insertion of quinacrine (252 mg) as pellets by one, two or three monthly insertions. No deaths have been reported and serious complications are far fewer than for surgical sterilization. Sideeffects are mild and transient. Efficacy has improved from 3 pregnancy failures per 100 ...

editorial editorial l ong ago, in a political galaxy far away, i was educated at one of the world's elite universities. neither i, nor my middle-class parents, paid a penny in upfront fees for this privilege. in fact, the state—or more precisely my local municipality—paid me a substantial 'maintenance grant' every term which covered my room in college, living expenses, books and other study ess...

Die informationstechnische Infrastruktur sehr vieler Industriebetriebe ist durch die gleichzeitige Verwendung mehrerer spezialisierter Anwendungsprogramme, die auf die Lösung bestimmter Probleme zugeschnitten sind, geprägt [Abe90]. Besonders im Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) ist man auf solche Speziallösungen für einzelne Aufgabenbereiche wie z.B. PDM, PPS oder CAD, die in der Regel ke...