We examine how inputs for health production, in particular, medical care and health-enhancing time, are combined to improve health. The estimated elasticity of substitution from a constant elasticity of substitution production function is significantly less than one for the working-age population, rejecting the unit elasticity of substitution used in previous studies. Copyright © 2016 John Wile...

The purpose of this study was to compare large and small arterial elasticity in apparently healthy sedentary and recreationally active adult women, and to examine if age affects large and small arterial elasticity. This cross-sectional study consisted of 43 premenopausal women without overt cardiovascular disease (age = 43.4 ± 4.7 yrs; mean ± SD). The subjects were grouped into a sedentary grou...

BACKGROUND Emerging infectious diseases continue to pose serious threats to global public health. So far, however, few published study has addressed the need for manpower reallocation needed in hospitals when such a serious contagious outbreak occurs. AIM To quantify the demand elasticity of the major surgery types in order to guide future manpower reallocation during contagious outbreaks. ...

BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction is the earliest marker for age-related abnormalities in vascular function, and examination of endothelial function has important clinical relevance. The present study was performed to evaluate effects of aging on arterial elasticity by using pulse waveform analysis and to investigate whether the changes in arterial elasticity might be used as a noninvasive mea...

In this paper, a semi-analytic thermal stress computation for single crystals with cubic anisotropy is developed, by introducing a new anisotropic factor. Based on a suitable splitting of the differential operators, a convergence series for general elasticity problem with cubic anisotropy is derived. Each term of the series is related to an isotropic elasticity problem. Using the analytic solut...

The mechanical and tribological properties in WC-Co coatings are strongly affected by hardness and elasticity specifications. The results revealed the effect of spraying distance on microhardness and elasticity modulus of coatings. The metallurgical studies have been made on coated samples using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Keywords—Elasticity modulus, HVOF, Micro-ind...

Ultrasonic elasticity imaging is a promising new tool for breast cancer diagnosis and management. Ultrasound is applied to sense small local tissue deformations noninvasively to image stiffness and thus exploit the large intrinsic stiffness contrast generated during the progression of many diseases in vivo. This paper briefly reviews several related approaches to breast elasticity imaging to ex...

Cloud computing has become the leading paradigm for deploying large-scale infrastructures and running big data applications, due to its capacity of achieving economies of scale. In this work, we focus on one of the most prominent advantages of cloud computing, namely the on-demand resource provisioning, which is commonly referred to as elasticity. Although a lot of effort has been invested in d...

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests a link between the wage elasticity of labor supply and wage penalties. Should one group of workers be less elastic in their supply choices, that group is predicted to earn less than others. To measure wage elasticity, I estimate a hazard model on voluntary job separations using...