Manufacturing -the procurement, transformation, and commitment to customers of physical goods -accounted for 18.5% of US GDP, employed 18.6 million people, and shipped $3.7 trillion worth of goods in 1996, the most recent year for which data are available. While manufacturing is large, however, it has often not been perceived as exciting or full of promise by communities, such as investors and ...

Total factor productivity is enhanced by e-collaboration’s ability to spread technical change. Economic surplus analysis allows business executives and policy-makers to assess the value of technical change. It can also be extended to assess e-collaboration in order to rationally steer investment opportunities. It is imperative for business executives and policy-makers to empirically assess the ...

A growing trend throughout the United States is an increasing willingness of cities to publicly finance professional sports stadiums. The stadiums are justified by tangible economic benefits, either citywide or specific to a targeted region through a revitalization plan. The citywide economic impact arising from a new professional sports stadium, when analyzed empirically, has been consistently...

This paper illustrates that cross-country generalizations about the impact of remittances on economic security are useful only up to a certain point; beyond that their effect can be influenced by the interplay of various factors relating to the motivations and characteristics of migrants, economic/ social/political conditions in the country of origin, immigration policies and conditions in the ...

In the year 2005, most of the estimated 150 million people worldwide afflicted by diabetes mellitus lived in developing countries.1 Diabetic foot ulcers will complicate the disease in more than 15% of these people during their lifetimes.2,3 In prospective cohort studies conducted among those with diabetes, history of a foot ulcer increased the risk of subsequent amputation by twoto over three-f...

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis (CE) constitutes an important public health problem in Peru. However, no studies have attempted to estimate the monetary and non-monetary impact of CE in Peruvian society. METHODS We used official and published sources of epidemiological and economic information to estimate direct and indirect costs associated with livestock production losses and human disease...

The upsurge of interest in watershed management and planning has increased the need for user friendly, interactive methods that decision makers can use to evaluate the economic and environmental consequences of alternative land use/management practices (LUMPs). Knowledge and information from several disciplines are integrated into a functional computer-based watershed management decision suppor...

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...