We model alternative institutional arrangements for building and managing facilities for provision of public services, including the use of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), by exploring the effects on innovative investment activity by providers. The desirability of bundling the building and management operations is analyzed, and it is considered whether it is optimal to allocate ownership ...

Measured single-photon zero-kinetic-energy pulsed field ionization ~ZEKE-PFI! photoelectron spectra of the sodium–water complex are presented and compared with the results of rotationally resolved ab initio calculations. The very nonatomiclike behavior of the photoionization of this Na~H2O! complex is essential in accounting for several significant features in these spectra. Agreement between t...

Affi liations: From the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asthma Clinical Research Center (Dr Hanania), Baylor College of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Celli), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University; Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Donohue), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Clinical Research, ...

In light of the NSF’s commitment to measuring performance and results, there was strong support for undertaking a proper evaluation of the PFI program. The preceding chapters reported on a number of specific outcome measures and process measures (signposts) that were suggested to assess program performance; we now turn to some of the broader principles that were articulated (or could be inferre...

Affi liations: From the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asthma Clinical Research Center (Dr Hanania), Baylor College of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Celli), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University; Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Donohue), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Clinical Research, ...

The effect of temperature and humidity fluctuations on fecundity and fertility of the silkworm lines was investigated during autumn and spring by exposing 4 and 5 instar larvae of eleven inbred silkworm lines ( M101, M-103, M-104, M-107, Pak-1, Pak-2, Pak-3, Pak-4, PFI-1, PFI-2 and S-1) to 25±1°C, 30±1°C and 35±1°C in combination with 55, 65 and 75% relative humidity (RH) for 3hr daily. Tempera...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The new Freedom SOLO aortic valve, as a modification of the Pericarbon Freedom stentless valve, requires only one suture line. The study aim was to compare both prostheses with regard to surgical convenience and early postoperative hemodynamics. METHODS In this case-matched study, 90 patients underwent primary elective isolated or combined aortic valve replacem...

Japan’s government has adopted the “Private Finance Initiative (PFI)” as a project method for monitoring “air-conditioning (AC)” performance after AC installation projects to overcome heatstroke increase in schools during summer. However, this was conducted long were built, which raises question: what is “energy-use (EU)” and how comfortable will classroom be when it installed without going thr...

Epithelial ovarian cancer is generally associated with a poor outcome, although the mechanisms that determine survival and progression-free interval (PFI) are unclear. Data from ovarian tumors showing associations between (a) null genotypes at the glutathione S-transferase GSTM1 and GSTT1 loci and expression of p53 protein and (b) outcome and expression of p53 suggest that polymorphism at these...