The study focused on the production cost efficiency and profitability of Abakaliki rice in Ihialia Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria.. A random sampling technique was employed to select a total of 100 Abakaliki rice farmers from the study area. Data collection was achieved through the administration of structured questionnaire assisted with personal interview. Data analysis was do...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic factors for salvage nasopharyngectomy. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted on maxillary swing nasopharyngectomy performed between 1998 and 2010. Univariate and multivariate analyses identified prognostic factors affecting actuarial local tumor control and overall survival. RESULTS The median follow-up duration w...

A real option analysis of dry-grind corn ethanol plants compared to a standard net present value analysis (NPV) shows that the option values increase entry prices and lower exit prices of investment and disinvestment considerably. For a large plant, the gross margin of ethanol price over the corn price for a gallon of ethanol using NPV shows that entry will occur with a $0.45 margin and shutdow...

OBJECTIVE The increased use of bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases requires a better understanding of the superficial temporal artery (STA) anatomy. This study is to describe the gross anatomy of STA in adult Korean population with respect to cranial surgery and to provide basic anatomic data for bypass surgery. METHODS The study evaluated retrospectively 35 p...

Purpose: This study investigates the feasibility of personalizing radiotherapy prescription schemes (treatment margins and fractional doses) for glioblastoma (GBM) patients and their potential benefits using a proliferation and invasion (PI) glioma model on phantoms. Methods and Materials: We propose a strategy to personalize radiotherapy prescription schemes by simulating the proliferation and...

This study empirically observes the impact of corporate governance index on dividend payout policy by using the data on thirty textile firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The data cover the five-year period from 2009 to 2013. The data were gathered from financial statements of all the sample firms. Multiple regression models were used to check the impact of corporate governance on dividend ...

Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a significant negative relationship between speeding and gasoline prices. This presents a new methodology of deriving the ‘Value of Time’ (VOT) based ...

Congress extended the crop insurance program to livestock with the Agricultural Risk Protection Act (ARPA) of 2000. Two livestock insurance products, Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) and Livestock Gross Margin (LGM), were subsequently approved by FCIC for sale beginning in the summer of 2002. Originally, LRP offered insurance against unexpected declines in the market price of hogs in Iowa. In 20...

Accurate estimation of disease extent and margin status is critical when evaluating partial mastectomy cases because both are predictors of recurrence. No published standards exist for processing specimens involved by invasive carcinoma, presumably because such cases have a gross lesion. We retrospectively studied 100 partial mastectomy cases and concluded that a standardized tissue mapping pro...

Assessment of financial performance for companies is important because it used to see the company's in future by knowing overall picture position. The purpose this study examine using profitability ratios calculated Gross Profit Margin, Net Return On Assets, Equity and solvency ratio Debt asset equity ratio. method research descriptive with main object PT Astra International Tbk. type data seco...