Abstract This work deals with consumers' preferences about coffee. Firstly, a choice experiment is performed on sample of potential consumers. Following this, sensory test involving the tasting two varieties coffee carried out respondents, after which same supplied to them again. An innovative approach for building heterogeneous designs specifically developed case-study, based approximate desig...

Graded exercise testing (GXT), per a cycle-ergometer (CE), offers safety and monitoring advantages over treadmill (TM) GXT. Unfortunately, CE-VO2max and some other cardiorespiratory (CR) variables are frequently lower than TM-GXT values. It has been difficult to compare TM and CE-GXT values. However, it was hypothesized that standing towards the conclusion of the CE-GXT (Stand-CE) might increas...

6 Monte Carlo experiments are used to study the unbiasedness of several common random utility mod7 els for a proposed adaptive stated preference survey. This survey is used to study the influence of the 8 knowledge of existing mode shares on travelers mode choice. Furthermore, the survey is applied to a 9 sample of subjects selected from the University of Minnesota. The results indicate that th...

Background The preferences of Iranians concerning the attributes of health insurance benefit packages are not well studied. This study aimed to elicit health insurance preferences among insured people in Iran during 2016.   Methods A mixed method...

The derivation of the conclusion "Anna is bigger than Mary" from the premises "Anna is bigger than Paul" and "Mary is smaller than Paul" is considered an instance of transitive deduction. For a non-verbal presentation, the premise statements were here transformed into a multiple operant discrimination task. Adult subjects were trained with overlapping pairs of a six-member stimulus series A+B-,...

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis (CE) can affect the heart and the vena cava but few cases are reported. METHODS A retrospective case series of 11 patients with cardiac and/or endovascular CE, followed-up over a period of 15 years (1995-2009) is reported. RESULTS Main clinical manifestations included thoracic pain or dyspnea, although 2 patients were asymptomatic. Cysts were located mostly ...