How hibernators manage to reduce their high metabolic rate – and therefore energy expenditure – from times when they are active to small almost immeasurable fractions during hibernation has attracted scientific inquiry for over a century. This problemwas also the subject of the classic study by Barbara D. Snapp and H. Craig Heller published in 1981, which presented detailed measurements of diff...

Snow disasters cause immeasurable losses to human society each year, threatening people’s lives and properties and therefore attaching much importance to the measurement of snow cover. Snowfall, however, is one of the most difficult to be measured among meteorological elements, especially on the railways. To solve this problem, the real-time monitoring of snow along the railway can be helpful. ...

Calls for medical care cost containment are all around us. Although the evidence that costs are too high is strong, the evidence that they are rising too quickly is much weaker. The principal cause of increasing costs appears to be the increased capabilities of medicine; the scant evidence available suggests that to date the public has wanted to pay for most of these capabilities. Effective glo...

The paper surveys the various economic costs associated with terrorism. Particularly important is the distinction between the direct and the indirect costs. While many terrorist attacks cause substantial amounts of property damage and create casualties, most of the costs associated with terrorism involve the indirect costs. Although terrorism can reduce a nation’s overall growth rate, the costs...

TO THE EDITOR—Treatment of multidrugresistant (MDR) tuberculosis requires longtime usage of toxic drugs that are unpleasant for patients and costly for patients and governments. The costs in terms of human suffering, disability, and socioeconomic loss are immeasurable. In Iran, diagnosis and treatment of the disease are offered free of charge; fees are paid by the government and several chariti...

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Results of a survey conducted in the summer of 1985 of beneficiaries of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System and a matched group of Medicaid beneficiaries concerning their access to and satisfaction with medical care services are described in this article. The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is an alternative to Medicaid's acute medical care coverage. The results of the s...

Based on the background of informatization, development and progress science technology has brought an immeasurable impact securities market. Therefore, this article uses python to crawl number individual stock news study influence media attention investor behavior under constraint heterogeneous beliefs. It is found that there a significant positive correlation between degree investors’ beliefs...

Based on a review of historical events, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries, which caused immeasurable displacements human beings, this article proposes to analyse «migrant writing» Hanoi novel, by Adriana Lisboa, bringing reflection about exile, transculturality, memory, post-memory melancholy, aspects present heiresses family traumas or exiled characters. brings complexity these transit...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a disabling mental disorder with high prevalence and that usually  requires long-term follow-up and expensive lifelong treatment. The cost of schizophrenia treatment consumes a significant amount of the health services' budget in western countries. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to find out about the costs related to schizophrenia across different european coun...