constructed upon a height (by footing) or breaking in to the ground, in a building, making a close relation between earth and soil is of great importance. in addition, earth as a prior factor in creation of a shade and residence, plays a crucial role in architecture history. throughout the different area, earth is paid attention differently: as a source of cool (in china), a source of heat (cap...

We investigate the trading of mutual funds and pension plan sponsors on days of extreme market-wide price movements. We find that the institutions in our sample are net buyers (sellers) during extreme market declines (increases) and that these positions generate positive returns. Results are driven by institutions that were recently trading in the same direction as they are observed trading dur...

American capitalist medicine has produced a national healthcare system that is the most expensive – and producing worse outcomes for patients in world. For many patients, social inequities racial disparities embedded throughout US have only deepened intensified over last two decades, with very few realizing promises made by medical technological innovation. Healthcare policy makers are turning ...

T paper explores the benefits of letting customers escape from prepurchased service contracts by offering refunds for cancellations. We show that such a policy creates opportunities for multiple selling in a capacity-constrained service—i.e., collecting cancellation fees from advance buyers who cancel, and then reselling the freed slots. The better the alternative that motivates a cancellation,...

Karakitsos and coworkers, in this journal, reported further compelling evidence on the value of ultrasound in guiding internal jugular vein catheterization. In a large, prospective, randomized study of 900 patients, comparisons were made between patients in whom the procedure was performed using landmark-based techniques and those assigned to ultrasound guidance. The key benefits from use of ul...

For the past two decades the person-situation debate has dominated personality psychology and had important repercussions in clinical, social, and organizational psychology. This controversy strikes to the heart of each of these disciplines because it puts on trial the central assumption that internal dispositions have an important influence on behavior. According to emerging views of scientifi...

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