introduction drastic model is an index and overlapping model that has been designed for producing vulnerability scores for different points by combining several thematic layers. overlapping distinguished methods are themost applicable methods for evaluatingvulnerability of aquifers because they are cheap, they can directly reach a defined goal, the used data in the methods are accessible or can...

The market for self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), with all its blood glucose (BG) meters and test strips, has experienced a constant increase in sales for a number of years with a good margin. If you attended the 2012 European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in Berlin, you would have gained the impression that this is a truly prosperous business. At least 20 companies from a...

The mechanisms wh(eeby, dietary sodium restriction leads to decreased arterial blood pressure is obscure. Previously reported studies of patients with arterial hypertension showed a lessened pressor response to norepinephrine after sodium restriction. In the present investigations, reduction in pressor response to norepinephrine during the low sodium period was observed only occasionally; sodiu...

Individual voles were tested on successive days under increasing, decreasing, or randomly changing arena size. Locomotor behavior was adjusted to arena size by (i) preserving the same level of activity, (ii) taking longer but less frequent trips in smaller arenas in contrast to taking more frequent yet shorter trips in the larger arenas, and (iii) moving in the entire space available for explor...

We analyze the licensing of a drastic innovation when products are differentiated due to consumer and/or product heterogeneity. We show that an industry insider prefers to divest its production arm and license the new technology as an industry outsider, in which case it can replicate multiproduct monopoly profits. We derive the optimal contracts and the optimal number of licenses by assuming a ...