Consumers buying electronics products at the lowest prices on Shopper.com during 2000 and 2001 saved an average of 16 percent, compared to purchasing at the average listed price. Consistent with a variety of theories, the value of information depends on the size of the market. When two firms list prices, consumers save 11% by purchasing at the lowest price rather than the average price. These s...

regarding to the importance of residence in the constitution of the low of islamic republic of iran, in this article housing price and its spatial distribution in mashhad city in account of help to decision making have been invisbiyated. the used data's in this studing, which are exceeded of 775 sample, have been gathered from khorasan newspaper (the needs part) since april 2010 to no nove...

We investigate the demographic effects of forced labor under an extractive colonial regime: Cultivation System in nineteenth-century Java. Our panel analyses show that demands are strongly positively associated with mortality rates, likely resulting from malnourishment and unhygienic conditions on plantations spread infectious diseases. An instrumental variable approach, using international mar...

Perceived risk can influence health behaviors. Studies using various populations and breast cancer risk bias assessment methods have identified both risk over- and underestimation. Among 1803 women in primary care settings, 47 percent were at average epidemiologic risk (Gail calculated relative risk ±50 percent of age-adjusted population average) and 55 percent perceived themselves to be at ave...

T he 1998 Purdue Land Values survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was $2,155 per acre in June 1998, $55 more than the all-time peak reached in 1981. This is an increase of $158 per acre, or approximately 8 percent, over the value reported in 1997. In each of the past five years, annual increases in the value of this land have ranged from about $100 to over...

The reconstruction of complex abdominal wall defects can often pose a significant challenge to surgeons and their patients. Complex ventral hernias may result from large tumor resections, trauma from gunshot wounds, or infections following routine abdominal surgery. "Components separation" of the abdominal musculature uses advancement of local autologous tissue, when available, to close large v...

OBJECTIVE This report presents data on hospice care discharges. Numbers and percents of discharges are shown by selected characteristics of the agencies from which the patients were discharged, by selected patient characteristics, by services provided, by types of personnel that provided the services, and by diagnoses of these discharged patients. METHODS The data used for this report are fro...