background: existence or non-existence of adverse selection in insurance market is one of the important cases that have always been considered by insurers. adverse selection is one of the consequences of asymmetric information. theory of adverse selection states that high-risk individuals demand the insurance service more than low risk individuals do. methods: the presence of adverse selection ...

objective: this paper explores the relationship between domestic violence against women inflicted by husbands, unwanted pregnancy and pregnancy termination of bangladeshi urban women. materials and methods: the study used the nationally representative 2007 bangladesh demographic and health survey (bdhs) data. the bdhs covered a representative sample of 10,996 ever married women from rural and u...

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential association between growth hormone GH/AluI and growth hormone receptor GHR/AluI polymorphisms with milk yield and reproductive performances in Holstein dairy cows in Iran. Blood samples of 150 Holstein cows were collected and their genomic DNA was extracted using Gene-Fanavaran DNA extracting kit. Fragments of the 428 bp of exon 5 growth ho...

Purpose – Strategic alliances have a variety of governance structures that can be broadly classified as joint ventures, minority equity alliances, and contractual alliances. This paper seeks to empirically examine the roles of four key determinants of governance structure choice, namely, joint R&D and joint marketing objectives, alliance management experience, and international partners. Design...

1. The Effect of Response Level Ordering on Parameter Estimate Interpretation 2. Odds Ratios 2.1 Binary Explanatory Variable Modeling the Event 2.2 Binary Explanatory Variable Modeling the Nonevent 2.3 Continuous Explanatory Variable 3. Predicted Probabilities 4. Predicted by Observed Classification Tables 4.1 Classification Using Predicted Probabilities 4.2 Classification Using Bias-adjusted P...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the choice between establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) or entering into a joint venture (JV) as made by Catalan manufacturing firms investing abroad. The validity of certain key transaction-cost hypotheses in this case is tested using binomial logistic regression. Results indicate that a Catalan manufacturing firm is more ...

background: few investigations have focused on the patients with lupus nephritis (ln) and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (npsle). this study was aimed to investigate the clinical features, mortality, and the predictors for mortality of this group of patients. patients and methods: medical records were retrospectively reviewed in sun yat-sen memorial hospital from 1996 to 2012. da...

binary logistic regression (blr) has been developed as non-linear models to establish quantitative structure- activity relationships (qsar) between structural descriptors and biochemical activity of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. using a training set consisted of 21 compounds with known ki values, the model was trained and tested to solve two-class problems as active or inactive on the basis of...