BACKGROUND Intervention and treatment in Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD-dementia) can be cost effective but the majority of patients are not diagnosed in a timely manner. Technology is now available that can enable the earlier detection of cognitive loss associated with incipient dementia, offering the potential for earlier intervention in the UK health care system. This study aimed to determ...

1 This paper compares financial costs and benefits of floating rice-based and intensive rice farming systems using data from focus group discussions and household survey in four locations in the Mekong Delta. We argue that the net financial benefit per 1000m 2 of integrated floating rice-based farming systems is greater than the net financial benefit of intensive rice farming system. The total ...

Incorporating a household’s net sale status into a rearranged Slutsky equation with combined ordinary and endowment income effects, this paper aims to reinterpret the income elasticity of demand in the case of buying and selling and to associate it with types of goods in a novel manner. To this end, the Deaton’s (1989) net benefit ratio (NBR) approach is expressed as the difference between orig...

the purpose of this article is to evaluate the pivotal irrigated wheat project by cost-benefit analysis method in order to find the internal rate of return and the ratio of present value of net benefits to costs.to this end, we have estimated the economic surplus created due to shift in wheat supply , as result ofimplementation ofthe project and have calculated the above criteria. we found that...

BACKGROUND Anemia, one of the most common complications of cancer chemotherapy, has been managed with red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. As an alternative, the agent epoetin alfa has the potential to reduce the transfusion requirements of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. To estimate the value that cancer patients place on the drug, an economic analysis using the concept of willingness to...

A field experiment was carried out at the research field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during December 2006 to February 2007 to study the effect of nitrogen and molybdenum on post harvest soil characteristics and economic yield of bush bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The treatments consisted of 5 levels of N (0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 kg ha) designated and 3 levels of Mo (0, 0.5 an...