Human behavior is a mystery. Sometimes we don’t even know ourselves why we do things. But IBM’s Watson Health thinks it can put its big-brain cognitive thinking cap on and figure us out, as revealed in the data fingerprints we leave behind when we enter the health care labyrinth. IBM Watson Health has been growing fast, as parent IBM patches new health care analytics companies into the entity i...

Local government has been recognised as an early leader in the development, deployment and innovation in spatial information systems. The introduction of corporate wide spatial data portals within local government was as significant as the release of Google Earth to the wider public. Although these information systems continue to expand and mature, the potential for these local spatial data inf...

his study aimed to investigate factors affecting the revenue share of Iranian tomato paste exporting companies. Flexible estimation method was used on a two-dimensional panel data set including 224 observations from 14 tomato paste manufacturing and exporting companies and 16 importing countries during 2005-12. Results showed that value added per employee in manufacturing or exporting companies...

This paper investigates the presence of health-dependent utility on a panel European countries. We follow strategy Finkelstein et al. (J Eur Econ Assoc 11:221–258, 2013) and extend their analysis focusing different health measures. The results show that exhibits an increase in marginal to consume when physical deterioration occurs. For cognitive decline, we find decrease for low memory skills v...