cultural development in which the behaviors of not only privatebut also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogenous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been ci...

cultural development in which the behaviors of not only privatebut also public-sector suppliers of scientific knowledge and technology are treated as endogenous rather than exogenous to the economic system. The model also incorporates the economic response of institutions to new economic opportunities as a component of the economic system. [The SCI® and SSCI® indicate that this book has been ci...

Decision makers in the American states tend to emulate policy innovations adopted in other states that they regard as legitimate points of comparison As a result of this decision rule, regional clusters of states have emerged whose policies closely resemble each other (The Science Citation Index® (SCI®) arid the Social Sciences Citation Indes® (SSCI®) indicate that this paper has been cited in ...

Background: Long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with prednisolone (PRED) is associated with bone mineral density (BMD) loss. This study aimed to determine the status of BMD in non-compliant women who used PRED alone for RA. Methods: Non-adherent RA taking < 7.5 mg daily PRED without DMARDs for > 6 months, and RA patients taking methotrexate +PRED (RA control) were compared with ag...