This paper presents some results of a recent study that has evaluated data accuracy, efficiency, and costeffectiveness of this remote-sensing LIDAR technology as compared to the conventional aerial photogrammetry and ground total station methods for terrain data acquisition and mapping. An overview of airborne laser mapping technology for producing digital terrain models and digital databases f...

Multi-component interventions for conduct disorder target several contexts of a child’s life (e.g., both home and school environments) and are generally more effective than single-component behavioral interventions. Whether the multi-component approach is cost-effective remains an unanswered question. This article analyzes two decades of data from the Incredible Years (IY) Series to examine the...

The objective of this study is to highlight the current practice retakaful and explore means enhance prudence, costeffectiveness efficiency in managing which represents a major cost Participant Risk Fund (PRF). This qualitative discusses theoretical practical aspects through literature review from published sources; articulated practitioner‟s perspective.This explains concept importance retakaf...

Background: No clear evidence is available on the cost-effectiveness of eplerenone in treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Thus, the present study aimed at systematically reviewing studies that have investigated this issue. Methods: This systematic review study was conducted in 2016. The required information were collected using key Mesh words from the following databases: Google scholar, PubM...

RESULTS: The decision tree shows the associated probabilities, QALYs and costs for each clinical outcome arising from either the LVOS arm or the SSIR arm. An ICUR of $644/QALY favoring LVOS was calculated based off of its clinical-effectiveness gain of 7.11 QALY at an additional cost of $4,579.43 (partly due to the additional costs of radiation treatment and the bilateral operation needed for L...

The most obvious considerations that affect an organization's choice of security technologies are the threats the organization considers significant and the costeffectiveness of various security technologies against those threats. In practice, however, the choice is also strongly driven by less tangible, more nontechnical, considerations such as ease of implementation and maintenance, fit with ...

Sybil attacks have been shown to be unpreventable except under the protection of a vigilant central authority. We use an economic analysis to show quantitatively that some applications and protocols are more robust against the attack than others. In our approach, for each distributed application and an attacker objective, there is a critical value that determines the costeffectiveness of the at...

The competitive worldwide economic environment and ever-increasing costs of health care have created a setting in which understanding costs and making sure that we achieve good value in health care are paramount. One approach to seeking value is through the use of cost-effectiveness analysis. Although this science is now several decades old, it has been refined over the last several years, with...

Background: Metformin is the first-line oral hypoglycemic agent for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) per international guidelines with proven efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness. However, little information comparing it with acarbose exists. Objective: To study the costeffectiveness of metformin and acarbose—two extensively adopted agents—in treating T2DM. Methods: Cost-minimization analysi...

This study uses primary data to assess the impact of deworming and school feeding programs on pupil’s educational outcomes measured by test scores. In particular we elaborate on deworming at home vs. school. Relying on Propensity Score Matching and selection models we find that meals program significantly increase pupils’ test scores. The impact is more important for pupils who are in schools h...