HIGHLIGHTS Since the geopolitical developments of 1989, former centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe followed distinctively different pathways in national pharmaceutical expenditure evolution as compared to their free market Western European counterparts.Long term spending on pharmaceuticals expressed as percentage of total health expenditure was falling in free market economies as of 1...

The Occlusion Dose Monitor was first made by Allistair Fielder and Merrick Moseley in the early ninetees (Fielder et al., 1995) and miniaturized, following a suggestion by Paul van der Maas, the initiator of the RAMSES birth-cohort study on vision sceening (Groenewoud et al., 2010), by Cees Romijn and other electrotechnicians at the Academical Medical Center in Amsterdam in 1996 and 1997 (Simon...

Changes in the market conditions for fruit and vegetables have induced Dutch co-operative auctions to restructure their sales and marketing activities. Nine auctions merged into VTN and established the marketing organisation The Greenery International BV. VTN/The Greenery have encountered many problems in their first years of operation. Part of these problems can be explained by the lack of org...

Objective: There is an extensive corpus of knowledge about how misinformation may distort autobiographical memories. A diagnostic error can be conceptualised as a form of misinformation. Methods: The authors discuss the case of a 58-year-old woman who was given a misdiagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Results: The patient was deeply convinced that the diagnosis was correct, even when she was conf...

Choice is viewed as a derived, not a primitive, concept. Individual gambles are assigned subjective certainty equivalents (CE1); the choice set X has an associated reference level [RL(X)] based on the CEls of its members; the outcomes of each gamble are recoded as deviations from the RL(X); and new CEes are constructed. The gamble having the largest CE2 is chosen. The CEs are described by the r...

In the title compound, [Sn(C(6)H(5))(3)(C(10)H(13)OS)]·0.17C(6)H(6), the Sn(IV) atom exhibits a slightly distorted tetra-hedral coordination geometry built up by four C atoms, which are the three ipso-C atoms of the phenyl rings and the α-C atom of the deprotonated γ-O-functionalized propyl phenyl sulfide. The benzene mol-ecule lies about a threefold rotoinversion axis.

BOARD BNVKI: EDITORIAL BOARD: Joost Kok (chair) Floris Wiesman (Editor in Chief) Rineke Verbrugge (member) Jaap van den Herik Wiebe van der Hoek (member) Bart de Boer Yao-Hua Tan (member) Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng Floris Wiesman (member) Cees Witteveen Luc DeHaspe (member) Antal van den Bosch (section editor) Walter Daelemans (member) Joris Van Looveren (editor Belgium) Bas Zinsmeister (member) ...

The purpose of this paper is the following: firstly, to chart how much economic reform of CEE electricity industries has taken place to date; secondly, to discuss why progress has been so limited; and, thirdly, to consider the prospects over the next few years. In charting the economic progress to date, we will consider and discuss progress in electricity price unbundling and rebalancing; in ut...

Running head: GGCX functional study using a cell-based assay Jian-Ke Tie, Jorge D. A. Carneiro, Da-Yun Jin, Ciro D. Martinhago, Cees Vermeer, and Darrel W. Stafford Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Chromosome Genomic ...

In this paper we analyse the impact of financial liberalization and reforms on the banking performance in 17 countries from CEE for the period 2004-2008 using a two-stage empirical model that involves estimating bank performance in the first stage and assessing its determinants in the second one. From our analysis it results that banks from CEE countries with higher level of liberalization and ...