Introduction This brief note presents an economic perspective on “me-too” drugs (sometimes also called “follow-on” drugs). Me-too drugs are products which largely duplicate the action of existing drugs. Several recent books (such as Angell (2004), Avorn (2004) and Goozner (2004)) have heaped criticism on the drug industry for the increasing extent to which investment appears to be focused on de...

OBJECTIVE Television, Internet and print media are saturated with advertisements for unhealthy food that use marketing tactics aimed to build long-term brand loyalty and 'relationships' with children. While research in this area has largely focused on television, the current study examines children's responses to relationship-building marketing communications found in popular children's magazin...

ing away from responsibility factor allows us to simplify the MMR model laid out in section 2. The value of the outcome x to the subject and counterfactual outcome y to the “other” can now be written as: V i (x, y) = u(x) + G i ( x y ) [5] for i=0,1 where G is the function relevant in the private and G 1 in the social environments. Using simplified version of MMR our hypotheses for the BOLD sig...

Query-specific summarization of multiple documents is a useful task in the current day context of the WWW, that is containing huge amount of information. When different summarizers have access to different sets of documents for a query, generating a summary of the summaries produced by the multiple summarizers becomes an interesting and useful task. In this paper, we propose an efficient soluti...

Michigan-Dearborn. Prof. Su dedicated much of his precious time in giving guidance and provide leadership for this work. He always kept a good track of the progress by arranging weekly and monthly group meetings. His helpful advices, corrections and guidance helped steered me in the right the direction and finished this work successfully. I would also like to thank my fellow lab colleagues. The...