This paper explores the choices and potential biases involved in valuing one type of government expenditure, medical transfers, and in estimating its antipoverty impact. Three methodological approaches-(a measure of) government costs, (a measure of) cash-equivalent values and (a measure of) funds released-are contrasted both in concept and in practice. We assign benefits to individuals after as...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome of surgical excision of Morton's neuroma after a local anesthetic diagnostic block into the neuroma has relieved symptoms. DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING A university affiliated hospital. PATIENTS A sequential series of 37 patients who underwent 41 excisions with at least 2 years' follow-up. Seven patients had undergone repeat excision of a neuroma, and ...

We investigated 29 cases, diagnosed clinically as having Morton's neuroma, who had undergone MRI and ultrasound before a neurectomy. The accuracy with which pre-operative clinical assessment, ultrasound and MRI had correctly diagnosed the presence of a neuroma were compared with one another based on the histology and the clinical outcome. Clinical assessment was the most sensitive and specific ...

The Brazilian government annually assesses the extent of deforestation in the Legal Amazon for a variety of scientific and policy applications. Currently, the assessment requires the processing and storing of large volumes of Landsat satellite data. The potential for efficient, accurate, and less * Corresponding author address: Douglas C. Morton, University of Maryland, College Park, College Pa...

A market with defaultable bonds where the bond dynamics is in a Heath-Jarrow-Morton setting and the forward rates are driven by an infinite number of Lévy factors is considered. The setting includes rating migrations driven by a Markov chain. All basic types of recovery are investigated. We formulate necessary and sufficient conditions (generalized HJM conditions) under which the market is arbi...

ever, as an aftermath of the second world war there was a marked increase in the incidence of early acquired syphilis which reached its peak in the year 1946. Not unexpectedly, it resulted in a steep rise in the number of congenital syphilis cases in 1948 and 1949, followed by a gradual fall in the ensuing years to a low level in 1952 (Morton, 1954). Earlier communications on penicillin treatme...

DUANNI HUANG,* PAOLO PINTUS, CHONG ZHANG, PAUL MORTON, YUYA SHOJI, TETSUYA MIZUMOTO, AND JOHN E. BOWERS Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy Morton Photonics, 3301 Velvet Valley Dr, West Friendship, Maryland 21794, USA Department of Electrical and Electronic Engi...

In this paper, which is a substantial extension of an earlier essay [3], we give an overview of some recent work on the geometric properties of the evolution of the forward rate curve in an arbitrage free bond market. The main problems to be discussed are as follows. • When is a given forward rate model consistent with a given family of forward rate curves? • When can the inherently infinite di...

Reproduced from Katherine Morton: Speech Production and Synthesis unpublished PhD thesis, University of Essex 1987, pp. 142-160. Based on reports to British Telecom Research Laboratories during the period 1984-1986 (part of a series of research contracts over a nine year period). The reports themselves cannot be placed in the public domain for reasons of confidentiality and intellectual propert...

Stephen Jay Gould famously used the work of Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) to illustrate how unconscious racial bias could affect scientific measurement. Morton had published measurements of the average cranial capacities of different races, measurements that Gould reanalyzed in an article in Science [1] and then later in his widely read book The Mismeasure of Man [2]. During the course of th...