While the CPI may have overstated inflation in the mid-1990s by about one percent per year, as concluded by the Boskin Commission, it does not make sense to extrapolate that rate of bias backwards over long periods of time. The "Hulten-Bruegel paradox" shows that any such exercise in backward extrapolation yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, bar...

In Burkina Faso, women make up nearly 52% of the population, but they account for less than 20% business start-ups. This paper seeks to identify factors that explain entrepreneurial intent Burkinabe women. It is based on socio-cognitive career theory and a quantitative approach involving sample 935 The results multinomial logistic regression show five variables (perception skills, fear failure,...

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

Andrea Mazzolini, Marco Gherardi, 3 Michele Caselle, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, 3, 4 and Matteo Osella∗1 Physics Department and INFN, University of Turin, via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Turin, Italy Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7238, Computational and Quantitative Biology, 15 rue de l’École de Médecine Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7238, Paris, France FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (...

1Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5B4 2Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University of Münster, Domagkstraße 11, 48149 Münster, Germany 3Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 4Department of...

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (S.R., Z.L., B.K.H., S.A., M.K.M.); Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales 2570, Australia (A.R.); Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University, 4–698–1 Asahigaoka, Kashiwara, Osaka 582, Japan (Y.M.); and Kansai...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...