background: owing to the growing importance of medicines in treatment of diseases, as well as their role as alternatives for expensive and often unsafe procedures; economic examination of factors associated with their demand is necessary. hence, this study aimed at exploring factors affecting the demand of specialty medicines.   methods: in this descriptive-analytic study, data was collected fr...

background and aim: metal ceramic restorations are widely used in crowns. the marginal fitness of these artificial crowns is prone to alteration during the firing cycle of porcelain. gold electroformed metal-ceramic restorations have been introduced as alternatives to conventional metal-ceramic restorations. however little is known about the relationship between procelain firing procedures and ...

Firm-level, revenue-based productivity measures are ubiquitous in studies of firm dynamics and aggregate outcomes. One common measure is increasingly interpreted as reflecting “distortions” since distortions’ absence, equalization marginal revenue products should yield no dispersion this measure. Another but distinct the residual firm-level function, which reflects “fundamentals.” Using micro-l...

The Cantwell Formation of the central Alaska Range provides a robust archive high-latitude, Late Cretaceous depositional systems and paleo-floral/faunal assemblages. Our stratigraphic analysis defines two mappable members. lower member (1500–2000 m thick) represents vegetated alluvial fan braided fluvial that transition up-section to fluvial–estuarine drained into an inland continental seaway. ...

background: this in vitro study investigated the marginal fit of two porcelain laminate veneers to help the selection of more accurate veneers in discolored teeth. materials and methods: thirty impressions of metal master die created from the prepared labial surface of an acrylic maxillary central incisor were made and poured with type iv stone. the dies were distributed into test groups (n = 1...

This paper, based on a field investigation in rural West Bengal, aims to identify possible ways which can enhance the farm income of marginal farmers. It is observed that micro-credit system under joint liability credit contract play dominant role during time disbursement institutional credit, but availability and size this mainly depend operational holdings households. also provided through sy...

This paper is concerned with combined inference for point processes on the real line observed in a broken interval. For such processes, the classic history-based approach cannot be used. Instead, we adapt tools from sequential spatial point processes. For a range of models, the marginal and conditional distributions are derived. We discuss likelihood based inference as well as parameter estimat...