Noninvasive medical analyses are a convenient method to study several pathologies even though their indirect nature often requires a complex processing to determine the relevant health “indicators.” The usefulness of such indicators depends on the employed model, but also on the uncertainty that is connected to the complex processing involved in the indicator determination. This paper deals wit...

Discrete choice models have been used to describe imperfect competition between ...rms selling horizontally di¤erentiated products. In all theoretical models, the indirect utility function is assumed to be linear in income so that there is no income e¤ect. We consider here a situation in which income enters nonlinearly into the indirect utility function. We propose a correct (hicksian) measure ...

The results from the small scale application are encouraging. Our model successfully reproduces known behavior of the λ−switch on the basis of molecular level competition and resource constraints, without the need to assume protein-protein interactions between cI2 dimers and cI2 and RNA-polymerase. Even in the context of this well-known sub-system, however, few quantitative experimental results...

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI expiration date and sometimes also receive considerably higher benefits. This paper examines whether ...

The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system was established nationwide following the 1993 enactment of Public Law 103-152. The law requires state employment security agencies to profile new claimants for regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to identify those most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them to reemployment services to promote a faster transi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this open-label, randomized, parallel-group pilot study was to evaluate the efficacy of cefditoren pivoxil and levofloxacin in terms of speed of reduction in inflammatory parameters, clinical recovery, and microbiological eradication. METHODS Forty eligible patients with acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (AECB) were randomized to receive cefditoren 200 mg twice a ...

One can easily obtain exact closed-form solutions for the compensating variation (and equivalent variation) in the presence of income e¤ects when the policy being evaluated can be described as a change in the state of the world and one is willing to assume the policy change does not change the individual’s epsilon draw. Alternatively, if one assumes the policy changes the epsilon draw, the expe...

type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) is recognized as a public health problem and increasingly prevalent illness. key elements of the guideline for diabetes care are based on evidence-based medicine approach and apply for population, not individuals. however, individualized care can improve diabetes management. personalized medicine is otherwise called precision medicine tries to find better predict...