BUMPY DESIGNS: IMPACT OF PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY COSTS ON SUPPORT FOR ROAD MILEAGE USER FEES

Evaluation of the Effects of Maintenance and Rehabilitation Projects on Road User Costs via HDM-4 Software

Rapid growth in a number of vehicles on roadways accelerates pavement deterioration trends. Pavement inefficiency in carrying the applied load from passing vehicles results in spending significant costs on continues Maintenance and Rehabilitation (M&R) treatments. Lane closure owing to the implementation of M&R operations incurs enormous costs on road users. The research aimed to calculate, and...

On the bumpy road towards ‘personalized medicine’

My uncle who practiced general medicine in a German village all his life wouldn't understand what I'm talking about: the care of his patients was always highly personalized. A new vision of 'personalized medicine' arose in contrast to current medical practice that relies on standards of care derived from epidemio-logic studies of large cohorts. New molecular methods increasingly will allow us t...

Malaria Vaccines: Progressing on a Bumpy Road

Article history: Received 21 October 2014 Accepted 21 October 2014 Available online 23 October 2014 most advanced malaria vaccine candidate, the RTS,S vaccine based on the P. falciparum circumsporozoite (CS) protein, has gone through extensive testing in Africa where a recent phase 3 trial showed a 27 and 46% protection against clinical malaria in African infant and children respectively but un...

Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation model.

OBJECTIVE To estimate how many child deaths might be prevented if user fees were removed in 20 African countries DESIGN Simulation model combining evidence on key health interventions' impacts on reducing child mortality with analysis of the effect of fee abolition on access to healthcare services. RESULTS Elimination of user fees could prevent approximately 233,000 (estimate range 153,000-...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.