4 Antoniewicz compared estimates of total household liabilities from the 1989 and 1992 surveys to estimates from the flow of funds accounts (FFA). For 1989, SCF total household liabilities equal $3.1 trillion, whereas the FFA estimate is about $29 billion less, and for 1992, the SCF estimate is $3.6 trillion, while FFA is about $116 billion higher. Estimates of consumer credit from the SCF are ...

We introduce the concept of “marketing avoidance” – consumer efforts to conceal themselves and to deflect marketing. The setting is one where sellers market some item through solicitations to potential consumers, who differ in their benefit from the item and suffer harm from receiving solicitations. Concealment by one consumer induces sellers to shift solicitations to other consumers, while def...

Intelligent systems have appeared in many technical areas, such as consumer electronics, robotics and industrial control systems. Many of these intelligent systems are based on fuzzy control strategies which describe complex systems mathematical model in terms of linguistic rules. Since the 1980s new techniques have appeared from which fuzzy logic been applied extensively in medical systems. Th...

The development of health policies is often initiated to meet political objectives, but policies can be, to a great extent, shaped by information found in surveys and other health services research. The following article provides an example of how survey data can be used to shape policy regarding developmental disabilities. It also illustrates how occupational therapists can use the data to adj...

1 of 11 26/09/2007 1:19 PM The wireless economy is expanding internationally, led by the popularity in mobile phones. We view the wireless economy as growing in three distinct, but inter–related areas: consumer transactions (mCommerce), enterprise solutions (mEnterprise); and, other ser vices to individuals and organisations (mServices). This paper surveys the wireless landscape, specifically f...

environmental protection is not at odds with the proper use of all the offered possibilities.along these lines, the touristic products available to the consumer has increased exponentially over the lastfew years which has made it possible to convert territorial and patrimonial resources into significant elementsof recreational use put into value at service of the consumer. surveys on the recrea...

OBJECTIVE To assess the comparability of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) estimates from different household surveys in India. METHODS Data on CHE, outpatient and inpatient OOP payments and other expenditure from all major national or multi-state surveys since 2000 were compared. These included two consumer expenditure surveys (the National Sample Survey f...