The income elasticity of lottery revisited: a worldwide perspective

Comparing the Income Elasticity of Health Spending in Middle-Income and High-Income Countries: The Role of Financial Protection

Background As middle-income countries become more affluent, economically sophisticated and productive, health expenditure patterns are likely to change. Other socio-demographic and political changes that accompany rapid economic growth are also likely to influence health spending and financial protection.   Methods This study investigates the relationship between growth on per-capita healthcare...

a gender-based pragmatic analysis of the use of english compliment responses by iraqi efl students:a speech act perspective

تعارفات کنش های گفتاری هستند که افراد در زندگی روزمر? خود به منظور برقراری دوستی یا تداوم روابط مسالمت آمیز به کار می برند. ساز و کار تعارف مختص زبان انگلیسی یا هر زبان دیگری نیست و پدیده ای است جهانی و در همه زبانها حضور دارد. تفاوتی که از این نظر در زبانها و فرهنگ ها وجود دارد مربوط به پاسخ به این کنش گفتاری در گفتمان است. این مطالعه به بررسی تنوع پاسخ های انگلیسی و عربی به کنش گفتاری تعارف د...

ON TRUNCATED MEASURES OF INCOME INEQUALITY FROM A FUZZY PERSPECTIVE

In most statistical analysis, inequality or extent of variation in income isrepresented in terms of certain summary measures. But some authors arguedthat the concept of inequality is vague and thus cannot be measured as anexact concept. Therefore, fuzzy set theory provides naturally a useful toolfor such circumstances. In this paper we have introduced a real-valued fuzzymethod of illustrating t...

The future of nursing: a worldwide perspective.

-grade elasticity revisited

We present a compact, linearized theory for the quasi-static deformation of elastic materials whose stored energy depends on the first two gradients of the displacement (2 nd -grade elastic materials). The theory targets two main issues: (i) the mechanical interpretation of the boundary conditions and (ii) the analytical form and physical interpretation of the relevant stress fields in the sens...