By using a stochastic frontier framework, the mutual effect of input use on production risk and inefficiency is investigated. Disentangling this mutual effect proves important for empirical reasons, at least when applied to west Tennessee cotton systems grown after various cover crops. The most striking result is that the stochastic frontier model, when compared with a typical Just-Pope model, ...

The FC/TC cooperative programme was designed to support the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), formerly North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in accordance with the DOTS strategy (directly observed treatment, short-course) recommended by the WHO. The elements of the Financial Cooperation (FC) included the procurement ...

To investigate the effects of illicit heroin abuse on the endocrine system a study was carried out in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) where heroin addiction is prevalent. Sixty-eight subjects were included in this study. Thirty-three were untreated heroin addicts visiting "drug abuse treatment centres" in Peshawar and 35 age matched normal males. Urine samples of all addicts showed the pres...

The medical records of all patients attending the Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (IRNUM), Peshawar during 1990 and to 1994 were analysed to determine the frequency of most common cancers. There were 13,359 adults with biopsy proven cancers of these 10,371 belonged to the North West Frontier province (NWFP) and remaining 2,988 were Afghan refugees. In NWFP there were 55% males an...

now that it does attack them, even those living in the districts in which they have been born, who, therefore, cannot be classed with the men referred to by Dr. Bryden in the " Report bringing up the statistical history of the European army in India and the native army and jail population of Bengal to 1876." In Sec. IIat page 72 he says '? In these cases (i. e. 2!) cases returned as Enteric fev...

Ten elite wheat inbred lines / cultivars were tested for grain yield stability at five different locations under the rainfed conditions in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. These inbred lines were exposed to different soil types, soil fertility, moisture levels and temperatures. GxE interaction mean squares were highly significant for grain yield. The overall mean grain yield perfor...