In an effort to raise assignment rates, some policymakers have considered dropping Medicare's case-by-case assignment option. Physicians would have to decide whether to accept all of their patients on assignment, or none of them. In a 1976 national survey, over two-thirds of the physicians stated they would take none of their patients on assignment if forced to choose. Simulation analysis showe...

One of the tasks of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) is the promotion of Croatian science. Although it started as a regional journal, the CMJ developed through the years and began to play a global role, helping Croatian scientists to present their results to the international biomedical community. The CMJ acts as a window to the world for the Croatian medical professionals, and the articles p...

About fifty percent of online retailers make a profit, while fifty percent take a loss (Swanson, 2002), and that motivates us to understand the factors that make online retailers profitable. Among other possibilities, the alignment between business strategy and e-commerce strategy might be one of the critical factors that influence a firm’s profitability. In this paper we explore this influence...

Peter B. Meyer is a research economist, and Michael J. Harper is the chief of the Division of Productivity Research and Program Development, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Final multifactor productivity measures take more than a year to complete; using a simplified methodology and preliminary data, it is estimat...

The purpose of this note is to posit and discuss the concept of "competitive inhibition potential" (CIP), which is an in vivo index of the ability of a competitive inhibitor to elevate plasma concentrations of drug substrates, when the competitive inhibitor is administered at its usual and customary dose.

Quantitative scaling into percent signal change is helpful to detect and eliminate “bad” results with abnormal extreme values. While cognitive effects give signal changes on the order of 1% (and larger in the visual and auditory cortices), signal variations of over 10% may arise from motion and other artifacts in the data. Thus, a quantitative check on measured effect size can be used to screen...