1National Reference Centre for Hantavirus Infections, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2Laboratory Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 3Zoonosis Science Center, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Un...

arising of loss entitles the third party to the compensation. in this respect, more often than not, the entitlement of the third party finds its justification based on voluntary principles and sometimes based on involuntary ones. if the third party cannot find defense based on voluntary principles, he or she has to resort to involuntary ones. the possibility of multiple compensation methods cou...

Students employ marginal analysis in investigating various problems regarding resource allocation.The majority of first-year students, however, seem to struggle in applying it to a firm’s profit maximisation problem.Their confusion appears to stem from textbooks for introductory microeconomics courses oversimplifying some subtle points regarding the profit maximisation problem.This paper (1) po...

We study the second-price offer feature of eBay auctions in which the seller has multiple units. Perhaps surprisingly, the opportunity to make second-chance offers can reduce seller profit. This happens if her marginal cost function is sufficiently steep. Hence, sellers should be wary about the possibility that buyers anticipate second-chance offers, and it may be advantageous for a seller to a...

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To the Editor of The Hospital and Health Review. Sir,?It may be of interest to you to know that, as the result of recent negotiations with the Ministry of Health, the following Committee of the Sheffield Hospitals' Council has been authorised by the Voluntary Hospitals' Commission to be the Local Voluntary Hospitals' Committee for this area Representing the City Corporation? The Lord Mayor (Aid...

to The Times under date December 6, in which Sir Alfred Mond, the'Minister of Health, sets forth the policy of the Government with regard to the voluntary hospitals :? I trust that you will allow me an opportunity of replying to the letter of the Bishop of Birmingham which appeared in The Times on the 2nd inst. A charge of inhumanity is a grave charge to make against any public Department, but ...

We investigate in a duopoly setting the consequences of competitive mobile targeting, the practice of firms' setting prices based on consumers' real-time locations. A distinct market feature of mobile targeting is that a consumer could travel across different locations for an offer that minimizes his total cost of buying. This cherry-picking opportunity imposes constraints on firms to carefully...