The costs of healthcare have long been a concern in the United States. It is well known that these costs vary geographically, but attempts to explain this variation have been met with limited and varied success. This is partly attributable to the fact that data available have restricted analyses to assessing the issue to using Medicare cost per beneficiary. In June, 2013, the Center for Medicar...

T he past four decades have witnessed an exponential increase in the number and sophistication of electronic systems in vehicles. Today, the cost of electronics in luxury vehicles can amount to more than 23 percent of the total manufacturing cost. Analysts estimate that more than 80 percent of all automotive innovation now stems from electronics. To gain an appreciation of the sea change in the...

A farmed population of rainbow trout under selection for over six generations from the Norwegian Salmon Breeding Company, Ltd. was investigated for levels of inbreeding and occurrence of inbreeding depression for body weight. The average percent inbreeding levels and percent of individuals with inbreeding greater than zero (in parenthesis) were 2.9 (59.3), 2.8 (49.8), 8.5 (87.1), 8.0 (82.8) and...

Jeffrey Williamson (2002) points out that “the world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries and one bust. The first global century ended with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti-global backlash” (1). The percent of the world population living in extreme poverty ($1 a day, inflation adjusted), meanwhile...

The work studied weight losses of harvested strawberries provided with protective edible coating. Coatings were produced by dipping strawberries in 50 % (w/w) starch-protein hydrolysate of Amaranth flour. Tests investigated influence of added glycerol (10 or 30 %) and dialdehyde starch (1 or 4 %) on barrier properties. A protective film was produced on the strawberries after drying 5 min. at 23...

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” The world community–led by the IMACS and PRINTO groups–has developed robust core criteria to measure disease activity and damage for Juvenile Dermatomyositis studies. These measures are tremendously useful in clinical practice, and not just for research. More problematic has been determining clinically meaningful change. The current definitions of chan...

We have observed the presence of membrane junctions formed between the plasma membrane and cortical endoplasmic reticulum of mature, unactivated eggs of xenopus laevis. The parallel, paired membranes of the junction are separated by a 10-mn gap within which electron-dense material is present. This material occurs in patches with an average center-to-center distance of approximately 30 nm. These...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This master's thesis examines among the hedge funds managed by a sole manager, whether differences in perfomance and risk between ones managed by female (female funds) and ones managed by male managers (male funds) exists. For simplicity, in this study such differences are refered as the ”gender effects” of hedge fund managers. I also explore whether the gender effect on p...

On 27 January 1993, twin baby boys and their mother made it onto the front page of Daily Mirror's supplement, Mirror Woman, which headlined story: ‘World Exclusive. An amazing operation saved lives twins Gary James in womb.’ They were born, on 25 September 1992, after spontaneous rupture membranes at 34 weeks gestation. Their had presented with severe twin–twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), mini...