Wind offers an important alternative to coal as a source of energy for generation of electricity in China with the potential for substantial savings in carbon dioxide emissions. Wind fields derived from assimilated meteorological data are used to assess the potential for wind-generated electricity in China subject to the existing government-approved bidding process for new wind farms. Assuming ...

Clinical trials are a long and tiresome process. Any misses here can delay time, add costs and result in missed opportunity. The leading culprit for missed clinical trial deadlines is the patient recruitment process. Patient enrollment is the most time-consuming aspect of the clinical trial process, estimated to take up to 30% of the clinical timeline. At the sensitive and crucial stage of deve...

The majority of the poor lack access to bank accounts and have to use costly informal savings mechanisms. Using a field experiment, I randomly gave access to simple bank accounts with no fees at local bank branches to a large sample of female household heads in Nepal. Results show that there is untapped demand for savings accounts and that the poor do save. Access to the savings accounts increa...

Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative health and reduce vulnerability to health shocks. Simply providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to increase health savings by 66 percent. Adding an earmarking feature was only helpful when funds were put ...

Standards stating •good practice• have had an undeniable influence on the demand for extensive dynamic analysis in the design of pipe systems for reciprocating compressors. The merits of such an approach have to be acknowledged in complex systems or when difficult service conditions must be taken into account. But in many cases it is possible to use empirical analytical methods which are less e...

This paper analyzes the simplest neoclassical economy in which agents have finite lives and there is sustained per capita growth. The growth rate of the world economy depends upon countries' savings propensities and common technology. Trade can reverse an economy's autarkic growth trajectory, and a country with a high savings rate runs a current account surplus. If a surplus country expands agg...

 The introduction of the full-replacement HSA plan reduced total spending by 25 percent in the first year. Each category of health spending experienced statistically significant reductions in the first year of the HSA plan with the exception of spending on inpatient hospital stays. Spending on laboratory services and prescription drugs had the largest statistically significant declines (36 per...

THERE are no signs that the debate over the chronological data of Genesis 1 is abating. Among those who hold biblical views of the inspiration of the Scriptures certain interpretations of that chronology have, indeed, long been traditional. These may disagree as to the duration of the "days" of Genesis 1 but they have in common the opinion that the order of narration in that chapter coincides w...

A solid financial plan considers all the variables that can affect your future, such as current income, savings, expenses, and expected future income. So you try to match savings investment decisions with long-term short-term goals. Financial planning is crucial when it comes saving taxes. We should have a stable rate because markets always oscillate between inflation deflation. not adequate wi...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Oral diseases are very important because they impose economic and social burden on societies. Given the resource scarcity, it is necessary to devise cost-effective and scientific strategies to prevent and control oral diseases. This study aimed to estimate the potential cost-savings for dental caries treatment associated with Community Water Fluoridation Program (CWFP) in Ke...