We evaluate the impact of three auction mechanisms—the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism, the second-price auction (SPA), and the random nth-price auction (NPA)—in the measurement of private willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept for a pure public good. Our results show that the endowment effect is lower with the BDM mechanism. In this market mechanism, the effect disappears after a...

This study was conducted to compare the analgesic efficacy of four commonly used analgesics namely ibuprofen, analgin, paracetamol and aspirin in post-episiotomy pain. The subjects were healthy postpartum women on the obstetric service of Goa Medical College, each of whom received only one experimental medication. Subjective reports were used as indices of pain intensity or relief. Ibuprofen wa...

This article presents a review of the literature and an evaluation on the development and application of skull-image superimposition technology - both instrumentation and methodology - contributed by a number of scholars since 1935. Along with a comparison of the methodologies involved in the two superimposition techniques - photographic and video - the author characterized the techniques in ac...

In the present study, we used feature lists in a categorization task and required participants to report their subjective confidence to examine the dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge. Whereas our findings replicated the effect of prior knowledge on learning, our results challenge the role of explicit and implicit knowledge suggested by previous research using a similar paradig...

BACKGROUND An aging population poses significant challenges to health care in China. Health management has been implemented to reduce the costs of care, raise health service utilization, increase health knowledge and improve quality of life. Several studies have tried to verify the effectiveness of health management in achieving these goals worldwide. However, there have been insufficient rando...

897 Commentary—Pillai and Delahanty Nearly 70% of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report clinically significant levels of sleep disturbances,1 and sleep complaints appear more refractory to therapy than other features of the disorder.2 However, data from several polysomnography (PSG) and actigraphy-based studies suggest that individuals with PTSD often report sleep disturb...

Because of the strong relationship between health status and diet quality, many indices have been developed to measure diet quality. Although most of these indices are intended to show a relationship with health outcomes, in all indices this association has been proved to be moderate, especially in the case of obesity. Moreover, all suggested indices are based on a high level of subjectivity in...

Both subjective and objective measures of lower social position have been shown to be associated with poorer health. A psychosocial, as opposed to material, aetiology of health inequalities predicts that subjective social status should be a stronger determinant of health than objective social position. In a workplace based prospective study of 5232 Scottish men recruited in the early 1970s and ...