‘Racial’ disparities among cancers, particularly of the breast and prostate, are something of a mystery. For the US, in the face of slavery and its sequelae, centuries of interbreeding has greatly leavened genetic differences between ‘Blacks’ and ‘whites’, but marked contrasts in disease prevalence and progression persist. ‘Adjustment’ for socioeconomic status and lifestyle, while statistically...

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) provide the basis for measuring, valuing, and presenting financial information to investors and creditors. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) promulgates GAAP through its Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS). To guide its thinking in the promulgation of SFAS, the FASB employs as conceptual framework, called Qualitative ...

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Discounted-utilitarian welfare, the commonest social objective studied by economists, is the basis for the theory of green accounting in terms of social utility. Sustainability is a different type of social objective. Consequently, green accounting as derived in many empirical models is not appropriate for studying sustainability. Maximin is a consistent foundation for the analysis of sustainab...

The services offered by Internet Data Centers involve the provision of storage, bandwidth and computational resources. A common business model is to charge consumers on a pay-per-use basis where they periodically pay for the resources they have consumed (as opposed to a fixed charge for service provision). The pay-per-use model raises the question of how to measure resource consumption. Current...

The influence of heterogeneous time preferences on the term structure is investigated. Motivated by the Preferred Habitat Theory of Modigliani and Sutch, a model for intertemporal preferences accounting for preferred habitats is proposed. In a heterogeneous world, preferred habitats can explain humps in the yield curve. Agents with a long habitat prefer long term bonds to shorter instruments as...

1. The IMF paper on this subject is greatly to be welcomed as a resolution of this issue is overdue. The IMF paper presents a summary of the different positions and includes a useful numerical example. This note is written in response to the IMF paper, including some comments on the example. The conclusions reached in this paper are very different from those of the IMF. I remain convinced that ...

The goal of this paper is to identify key financial and accounting variables that can accurately classify Green IT leaders against Green IT followers. The detailed objectives are: (i) to build and compare single and meta classifiers to identify the relationship between environmental performance and financial performance; (ii) to select and interpret a final prediction model with a smaller set o...

The purpose of this study is to provide a macroeconomic analysis of fiscal policy in the Czech Republic during the transformation period 1989-1995. In contrast to those studies which are based on “decline accounting”, disentangling different factors from each other and ascribing to them specific roles in the overall decline, this study focuses exclusively on fiscal policy and tries to identify ...

This paper exclusively reports the efficiency of AISINMACA. AIS-INMACA has created good impact on solving major problems in bioinformatics like protein region identification and promoter region prediction with less time (Pokkuluri Kiran Sree, 2014). This AIS-INMACA is now came with several variations (Pokkuluri Kiran Sree, 2014) towards projecting it as a tool in bioinformatics for solving many...