Procedural and surgical site infections create difficult and complex clinical scenarios. A source for pathogens is often thought to be the skin surface, making skin preparation at the time of the procedure critical. The most common skin preparation agents used today include products containing iodophors or chlorhexidine gluconate. Agents are further classified by whether they are aqueous-based ...

This paper considers the pricing of durable products. We argue that the ownership of a product represents a bundle of options and we employ the real-options theory to model product value. At any given point in time, the owner of a product has the option to choose whether she wants to use the product or not. This option-like quality of products is important for valuation since future usage costs...

Counsel for a manufacturer of medical devices or durable medical equipment must have working knowledge of various legal disciplines to draft contracts with intermediaries (sales representatives and distributors) for the marketing and sale of the manufacturer's products. If the manufacturer wishes to sell its products abroad, counsel must become familiar with the laws and business practices of t...

Some of the major components of a Howe truss bridge, built from durable Australian hardwoods, were treated with preservatives applied to the surface and inserted into holes bored into the components. The preservatives included two copper naphthenate formulations, two formulations based on 2(thiocyanomethylthio) benzothiazeole (TCMTB), two boron-based products and an oxine-copper formulation. Th...

Under the assumption of imperfect competition in a durable good industry, the present paper investigates the efficient regulation of solid waste which causes environmental damage at the end of the product’s life. It turns out that the second-best waste tax falls short of the marginal environmental damage if the producers rent their products but may also exceed the marginal damage if the produce...

In this paper, we analyze the effects of money on the market for durable goods both empirically and theoretically. Using monthly US data on personal expenditures on durable goods and the housing market, we estimate from a VAR the dynamic responses of the price and quantity of durable goods and housing to money supply shocks, assuming only that money is neutral in the long-run. We then estimate ...

BACKGROUND Americans spend the vast majority of their lives in built environments. Even traditionally outdoor pursuits, such as exercising, are often now performed indoors. Bacteria that colonize these indoor ecosystems are primarily derived from the human microbiome. The modes of human interaction with indoor surfaces and the physical conditions associated with each surface type determine the ...

Power simulation of digital circuits in early stages of development is a very popular topic amongst circuit designers. This paper discusses available power estimation techniques at the logic level. We elaborate on the fact that this technique can also be used to investigate an implementation’s DPA resistance with modest effort. Our practical investigations are based on an 8051-compatible contro...

We present an approach that integrates protein structure analysis and text mining for protein functional site prediction, called LEAP-FS (Literature Enhanced Automated Prediction of Functional Sites). The structure analysis was carried out using Dynamics Perturbation Analysis (DPA), which predicts functional sites at control points where interactions greatly perturb protein vibrations. The text...