abstract in this research, the comparative advantage of cereals including: wheat, barley and corn in cities of kerman, bardsir and baft was investigated by using domestic resource cost (drc), social cost benefit (scb) and effective protection coefficient (epc) index during 2005-2006 and effect of exchange rate changes, price changes and products costs on comparative advantage, were investigated...

Background There is limited evidence detailing the cost-effectiveness of psoriasis treatments in the Asian region. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of 3 psoriasis treatments tailored for moderate to severe psoriasis, namely topical and phototherapy (TP), topical and systemic (TS), and topical and biologic (TB) regimens, respectively. Me...

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has proposed incorporating hospital capital payments into the Medicare prospective payment system. HCFA's proposal includes an adjustment to capital payments for geographic differences in capital costs, derived from the prospective payment system area hospital wage index. Alternatively, the geographic adjustment could be based on an area construct...

Introduction:   Muscle weakness and balance problems are limiting factors in Multiple sclerosis patients that can be improved due to physical activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of aerobic exercise on balance function and Physiological Cost Index in patients with MS in Yazd city in 1394. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in two stages...

in this paper, optimal design of hybrid solar-wind- diesel energy system with battery storage for reliable load in arsoon village in ardabil is presented. the village has 35 households that mean daily energy consumption is estimated 63.4 kwh. in this design optimization is implemented, considering loss of power supply probability (lpsp) index for reliable load providing, with minimum total cons...