the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...

This study investigated the utilization of laboratory resources for learning word processing by business and home economics education undergraduates. The achieved four objectives, answered research questions tested null hypotheses. descriptive design was adopted conducted in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, using 505 undergraduates with 92 respondents sampled convenience sampling technique....

The relationship between Austrian economics and behavioral economics is a complex and multifaceted one. On the one hand, behavioral economics rejects the positive claims of modern, standard neoclassical economics and yet accepts its normative standards. Thus behavioral economics is itself a hybrid; it is part psychological economics and part neoclassical economics. Furthermore, many behavioral ...

Over the last thirty years, China's major cities have experienced significant income and population growth. Much of this growth has been fueled by urban production spurred by world demand. Using a unique cross-city panel data set, we test several hypotheses concerning the relationship between home prices, wages, foreign direct investment and ambient air pollution across major Chinese cities. Ho...

According to New Home Economics, valuations of household production based on opportunity cost and market price methods should produce similar estimates. Data from the National Survey of Family and Households are used to assess the extent to which the opportunity cost and market price methods of valuing home production are similar. This paper shows that the two approaches are not similar once on...

We analyze the transmission of shocks through international bank lending, as is suggested in Kaminsky and Reinhart [6], by examining the bank’s international lending behavior. We develop a portfolio selection model, which explicitly includes the economic condition of the bank’s home county. This model is estimated using data from the banks of the six largest international creditor countries ove...

undoubtly, land degradation causes apparent decrease of natural resources potential which are highly linked to desertification. different countries and also international organization have realized a great number of projects to combat desertification. unfortunately these projects have not reach to their goals. the experiences shows that the reason of these unsuccessful works is lack of consider...