AIMS To date there has been limited analysis of the economic costs and benefits associated with cannabis legalisation. This study redresses this gap. A cost benefit analysis of two cannabis policy options the status quo (where cannabis use is illegal) and a legalised-regulated option was conducted. METHOD A cost benefit analysis was used to value the costs and benefits of the two policies in ...

Der Bedarf an überbetrieblicher Kooperation bei Unternehmen wächst zunehmend. Technologische und marktbedingte Entwicklungen drängen zur Kooperation mit Partnern, wobei sich die Integrationsreife vieler Organisationen immer noch auf einem niedrigen Niveau befindet. Nutzenpotenziale von überbetrieblicher Integration werden kaum von den beteiligten Partnern innerhalb eines Integrationsszenarios g...

Brackish water lake is home of peculiar organisms, as its salinity is middle of those of sea and fresh water. Its salinity changes sensitively with sea level, river flow rate and lake topography. Hinuma Lake is one of brackish water lakes in Japan and connects with the Pacific Ocean through a tributary and a major river. Therefore the inflow process of salt water to the lake is very complex. Th...

Computerunterstützte Systeme sind heute aus dem medizinischen Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken, auch wenn ihr Nutzen in aller Regel nicht in prospektiv-randomisierten Untersuchungen beschrieben wurde. Während in der industriellen Arbeitswelt computerunterstützte robotische Systeme auf Grund ihrer Präzision und Ausdauer uneingeschränkt akzeptiert werden, gibt es im medizinischen Bereich heftige Dis...

Conceptual Structures is a field of research which shares abstract concepts and interests with recent work on knowledge representation for the Semantic Web. However, while the latter is an area of research and development which is rapidly expanding in recent years, the former fails to participate in these developments on a large scale. In this paper, we attempt to stimulate the Conceptual Struc...

The classical choice theory assumes that an individual’s choice does not depend on irrelevant alternatives or the way that alternatives are labeled; such as an endowment or a default. However, phenomena such as the “Status Quo Bias” and “Attraction Effect” which apparently imply violation of rationality, have been widely observed. Even though they exhibit similar pattern of choices, the relatio...