Multi-component interventions for conduct disorder target several contexts of a child’s life (e.g., both home and school environments) and are generally more effective than single-component behavioral interventions. Whether the multi-component approach is cost-effective remains an unanswered question. This article analyzes two decades of data from the Incredible Years (IY) Series to examine the...

Aim . To study adherence to recommended treatment, additional clinical and economic benefits of a titration-free statin therapy regimen. Material methods Ambulatory patients (n=300) with high or very risk hypercholesterolemia who have indications for treatment primary secondary prevention cardiovascular diseases is included in non-randomized trial. Patients are divided into 2 groups. Group 1 ha...

Industrial sensing applications place a premium on costeffectiveness and accuracy. Traditional approaches often use expensive, invasive sensors, because inexpensive sensors suffer from false positive detections. Sensor cost means automation is sparse or avoided when the value of specific sites cannot be justified. In this paper, we show combining different types of sensors can allow low-cost se...

The main objective of the research presented in this paper was to investigate the conditionings of the perception of road-view, related directly to road safety, and in particular, to elaborate experimental research method for road view evaluation. The experimental laboratory method of perceptual properties evaluation for the two contrasting road visualisation techniques, static and dynamic, has...

RESULTS: The decision tree shows the associated probabilities, QALYs and costs for each clinical outcome arising from either the LVOS arm or the SSIR arm. An ICUR of $644/QALY favoring LVOS was calculated based off of its clinical-effectiveness gain of 7.11 QALY at an additional cost of $4,579.43 (partly due to the additional costs of radiation treatment and the bilateral operation needed for L...

The most obvious considerations that affect an organization's choice of security technologies are the threats the organization considers significant and the costeffectiveness of various security technologies against those threats. In practice, however, the choice is also strongly driven by less tangible, more nontechnical, considerations such as ease of implementation and maintenance, fit with ...

Sybil attacks have been shown to be unpreventable except under the protection of a vigilant central authority. We use an economic analysis to show quantitatively that some applications and protocols are more robust against the attack than others. In our approach, for each distributed application and an attacker objective, there is a critical value that determines the costeffectiveness of the at...

This paper begins by briefly describing the rationale for, principles, and evidence in support of, the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment for people with mental illness. It then summarizes the literature concerning the impacts of programs of this type on health care cost offsets and on its costeffectiveness. Factors that appear likely to influence cost-effectiv...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios quantify the additional cost of an intervention relative to the additional benefit associated with its use. Whether an intervention is considered cost-effective depends largely on policy decisions regarding whether the additional benefit is worth the additional cost in the context of competing needs for resources. In the United States, costeffectiveness ana...

The paper explores the potential of Khao Dawk Mali expansion in Northern Thailand as well as presents estimation of demand for variable inputs and choice of rice varieties as jointly determined by the profit-maximizing farmers. Results reveal that, Khao Dawk Mali provides economic advantage over glutinous varieties and can be conceived as a better alternative crop particularly in areas with ina...