Blood donor selection contributes to the safety of both the donor and the recipient. The objective of this study was to identify the number and causes of blood pre-donation deferrals at the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM). A retrospective study was carried out to retrieve data regarding deferred blood donors at the HUSM in the year 2006. A total of 4,138 blood donors donated blood at ...

Web resources are increasingly interactive, resulting in resources that are increasingly difficult to archive. The archival difficulty is based on the use of client-side technologies (e.g., JavaScript) to change the client-side state of a representation after it has initially loaded. We refer to these representations as deferred representations. We can better archive deferred representations us...

In this paper, we construct a dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous households and analyze the macroeconomic, budgetary, and welfare effects of introducing tax-deferred retirement saving accounts similar to the U.S. 401(k) plans. We solve the model for equilibrium transition path to show both the long-run and short-run effects under several different finan...

Methods Hospital casemix data published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (DPC [Diagnosis Procedure Combination] survey data) is used to construct a database of acute-care hospitals. Hospitals are then geo-coded, using their addresses, to calculate drive-times to a geographic mesh. The resulting hospital-to-mesh drive-time table is used to analyze accessibility to services in each re...

The primary objective of this study is to extend the concept strongly I-deferred Ces?ro summability and ?-deferred I-statistical convergence on amenable semigroups. Furthermore, under few conditions, we also establish some inclusion-based results. After that, introduce I*-statistical convergent, I-statistically pre-Cauchy, I*-statistically pre-Cauchy functions in semigroups prove results based ...

This paper provides the first experimental test of Edward Lazear’s (1979) model of deferred compensation. We examine the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ effort supply in a multi-period environment. If firms can ex ante commit to a wage schedule with deferred compensation, workers should respond by supplying sufficient effort to avoid dismissal. We contrast this full-commitm...