background: describing trend in tuberculosis (tb) over time can play an important role to assess the disease control strategies and predict the future morbidity and mortality. this study aimed to determine the incidence trend of smear‑positive pulmonary tuberculosis (sppt) in sub‑age and sex groups during the years of 1995–2012. methods: this retrospective cohort study was performed in 2015 by ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.08.009 1047-3203/ 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. q This paper has been recommended for acceptance by M.T. Sun. ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +86 028 61830064. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Q. Wu), [email protected] (H. Li), [email protected] (F. Meng), [email protected] (K.N. Ngan), eezsy @uestc.edu.cn (S. Zhu). Qingbo Wu a,⇑, Hongli...

This paper assesses the impacts of decoupled government transfers on production decisions of a sample of Kansas farms. Our empirical analysis is based upon a reduced-form application of the dual model of investment under uncertainty developed by Sckokai (2005), which is extended to a consideration of irregularities in the capital stock adjustment cost function. To do so we adopt the threshold r...

Using panel data we investigate the relationship between income inequality and economic development. We employ a threshold regression model that allows for endogenous income thresholds and find strong evidence of a two-regime split in our sample.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.