A SURVEY which shows that NHS trust chief executives' pay has been rising by more than double the percentage of nurses' pay has provoked anger in nursing organisations.

Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site and find results highly compatible with Basu’s theory. We can show that price points in particular pric...

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BACKGROUND Numerous published studies have explored associations between anaemia and adverse outcomes after surgery. However, there are no evidence syntheses describing the impact of preoperative anaemia on postoperative outcomes. METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies exploring associations between preoperative anaemia and postoperative outcomes was performed....

the effects of climate change, especially due to the increase of greenhouse gasses, have caused lots of problems that have affected different sections of society. one of the most important effects is the increase of natural disasters such as flood, drought, tropical cyclones, raising sea level, dust storm, etc. drought and flood are the most prevalent of these disasters in iran. because of the ...