according to importance of cirrhosis of the liver and the lack of information about the economic burden of the disease, we performed this study to estimate the economic burden of liver cirrhosis in iran in 2011.the cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, has been used. both direct and indirect costs have been estimated using a prevalence approach and bottom-up method. the inp...

the main goal of this study was to investigate the way of affecting of water in production of cucumber. from aspect of econometrics, mutual relationships of production function and expenses have been analyzed in which translog cost function has been used. this function has been estimated using the conditional input demand functions, the shefard theorem, chemical fertilizer, animal fertilizer, l...

Abstract Suburbanization still remains the key urbanization process in world. Urban sprawl, as a specific manifestation of suburban morphology, belongs to urban phenomena that is very often studied but ambivalent. The ambivalence assessment results from problems weighing costs and benefits generated by sprawl. At same time, there gap international research on sprawl for households. Therefore, a...

BACKGROUND Residential care infrastructure, in terms of the characteristics of the organisation (such as proprietary status, size, and location) and the physical environment, have been found to directly influence resident outcomes. This review aimed to summarise the existing literature of economic evaluations of residential care infrastructure. METHODS A systematic review of English language ...