The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues of this debate by presenting new evidence on the "red herring" hypothesis advanced by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999). This hypothesis amounts to distinguishing a mortality from a morbidity component in healthcare expenditure (HCE) and claiming t...

perceived risk is an intervening psychosocial construct in marketing and connected to potentially negative outcomes. when studying perceived risk in consumer behavior as purposeful behavior, there is no doubt that the desired outcome of a purchase decision is need satisfaction so that positive outcomes are hoped for and expected. if negative consequences are experienced in buying situations, th...

The difficulties of estimating and representing the distributions of functional data mean that principal component methods play a substantially greater role in functional data analysis than in more conventional finitedimensional settings. Local maxima and minima in principal component functions are of direct importance; they indicate places in the domain of a random function where influence on ...

In this paper, we evaluate multivariate pattern matching methods for the Tennessee Eastman (TE) challenge process. The pattern matching methodology includes principal component analysis based similarity factors and dissimilarity factor of Kano et al., that compare current and historical data. In our similarity factor approach, the start and end times of disturbances are not known a priori and t...

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...