Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Health Po...

(Pp. 210. $2.75.). Boston, Mass.: House of Edinboro. 1953. THIS is a crusading novel by a former U.S. Army engineer and is concerned with a problem perhaps not so important here as in the United States, but one which the reviewer has encountered once. Laid in a technical college in Pasadena in 1930, it is concerned with a description of what happens when a self-appointed minister counsels again...

The future economic and agricultural sustainability of semiarid western Nebraska will largely depend on more efficient utilization the declining groundwater resources. scope this research was to evaluate maize hybrid yield, water productivity (WP; i.e. grain yield produced per unit consumed), irrigation (IWP; increase in applied) across a range climatic conditions (i.e. drought, normal, wet) tr...

Background & objectives: The disposal of hazardous waste in the environment, which is usually done by burying it in a special landfill, requires a set of environmental standards and special economic, social and managerial considerations. Improper landfills can have negative health, economic, and environmental effects. In this regard, the present study seeks to find a suitable landfill for speci...

Three vote-share equations are estimated and analyzed in this paper, one for presidential elections, one for on-term House elections, and one for midterm House elections. The sample period is 1916–2006. Considering the three equations together allows one to test whether the same economic variables affect each and to examine various serial correlation and coattail possibilities. The resulting th...