EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The Clinical Case of the Month is a regular educational feature from the Department of Medicine at the LSU Health Care Sciences Center. Medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty collaborate in the preparation of these discussions. After reading this article, physicians should be able to better identify and understand the pathophysiology, clinical pres...

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, USA; The Jackson Center for Heart Research, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; The Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; and Department of Chemist...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify successful strategies for clinical trial recruitment. DESIGN Survey research. SETTING New Jersey institutions actively recruiting patients for clinical trials. SAMPLE 84 clinical research nurses directly involved with patient recruitment were surveyed, and 50 responded (60% response rate). METHODS Focus group; 34-item, direct mail questionnaire; follow-up ...

In this paper we use data before and after the implementation of a titling program in Uruguay to evaluate the program demand constraints. The lack of understanding of the benefits of titling or how to apply to the program can be seen as demand constraints. We found that more educated household heads had higher probability of titling. Besides that, we find very few statistically significant diff...

In this paper, the reaction of firms to the introduction of environmental charges in a given industry is analysed. Firms may decide either to relocate their plants abroad or to adopt a new environmental-friendly technology. The latter can be either developed by investing in R&D or obtained by buying a licence. We show that, even if domestic firms share the same initial technology, at the equili...

From University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona; St David’s South Austin Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Wellmont Cancer Institute, Kingsport, Tennessee; Baptist Health Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky; University of California, San Francisco; Meniscus Educational Institute, Lawrenceville, New Jersey; Genentech GI & Lung Franchise, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Abramson Cancer Center, Hospit...

1 Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2 Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 3 Department of Educational Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 4 Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 5 Department of Counseling and Educational ...

Alerk Amin, CentERdata [[email protected]] Ingo Barkow, DIPF Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information [[email protected]] Stefan Kramer, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research [[email protected]] David Schiller, Research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) [[email protected]]...