The tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Hemiptera: Miridae), has become the primary target of foliar insecticides in cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., throughout the Midsouth over the past several years. This prompted a reevaluation of existing action thresholds for flowering cotton under current production practices and economics. A trial was conducted at 19 locations thr...

The implications of hormesis for decision making about control of environmental exposures are examined. From an economic perspective, environmental exposures should be controlled to a level that optimizes health effects and minimizes control costs. The possibility that substances are, or may be, hormetic poses no fundamental challenge for economic analysis. In contrast with the linear no-thresh...

In their publication in Pharmacoeconomics Open, Akpinar et al. [1] reported the results of their review of methods for forecasting drug prices for economic evaluations. This was an interesting article, and I agreed with most of the conclusions. However, I disagree that prices forecast using the price of a close substitute on the same market may be more reliable. This conclusion may be biased be...

Y. Balcer and S. A. Lippman (1984, J. Econ. Theory 34, 292 318) develop a model to analyze the ``buy or wait'' problem under technological change. They show that this dynamic problem has a threshold solution: if the difference between the best available technology and that currently held exceeds a certain threshold, then buy. They also claim that the threshold is increasing in the ``discovery p...

The tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), is an important pest of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., in the mid-southern United States. It is exclusively controlled with foliar insecticide applications, and sampling methods and thresholds need to be revisited. The current experiment was designed to establish a plant-based threshold during the flowering period of cotton develo...

Banking system is considered as one of the most important economic sectors of every country. Because of the dependency between the performances of different sectors in economy, instability in banking sector will lead to disorder in all the other economic sectors. Marketization can influence banking stability. The primary objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between ...

Objective : This paper examines inflation and growth: revisiting the estimation of threshold level for Pakistan. Research Design & Methods The study uses time series data from 1985 to 2015. It employs Generalized Least Square (GLS) Conditional (CLS) methods with aim determining impact trade openness on economic growth estimating economy Findings findings revealed that there is a significant...