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The Benefits of Benefit Segmentation

Journal of Segmentation in Marketing, 1999
(1999). The Benefits of Benefit Segmentation. Journal of Segmentation in Marketing: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

Environment and Development Economics, 1997
Among the tools of the economic trade, cost-benefit analysis is the most widely used in policy circles. Asking whether there is a role for cost-benefit analysis is like asking whether there is a role for the weatherman. Of course there is.
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The Benefits of HMO Community Benefits Programs

Journal of Health & Social Policy, 2001
Managed care is becoming the dominant mode of health care coverage, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are playing a key role in the delivery of health care within the evolving, cost-competitive system. However, in this cost-cutting arena, do HMOs have responsibility for health services to communities which extends beyond their enrolled ...
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The benefits of hypodermoclysis

Nursing Standard, 1999
Hypodermoclysis (subcutaneous fluid administration) is a valuable means of replacing fluids and maintaining hydration for older people and palliative care patients. This literature review looks at three aspects of the therapy--client groups, wound care and types of infusion fluids.
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On the cost and benefit of cost and benefit.

Psychological Bulletin, 1984
Cost-benefit analysis of reaction times has become a popular chronometric tool in the study of cognitive processes. We review the technique, assumptions underlying its application, and pitfalls that are encountered in actually implementing it in various experimental contexts, this review suggests that the unthoughtful application of the technique may ...
John Jonides, Robert Mack
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The benefits of disturbance

Science, 2021
Physical disruption of an ecosystem by sea otters affects the genetic diversity of their ...
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Benefits of massage

Nursing Older People, 2010
Massage for relaxation may be an effective alternative to pharmacological therapy in reducing physiological and psychological stress in older people. Older adults are more deprived of affective touch than any other population group. In recent years, the nursing profession has conformed to a technological environment and medication is used for ...
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Cost and Benefit

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1973
Excerpt To the editor: In the April 1973 issue (p. 580), in the excerpt "'Cost/Benefit' in Medicine" fromThe Medical Journal of Australia, I was particularly interested in the last sentence, "Is th...
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Benefits of Distraction

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2015
A considerable amount of research has been carried out with the aim of understanding the relationship between arousal and performance, but so far this topic has rarely been examined in the context of personality. In this study, we used a 2-group design (N = 76) to investigate the effects of arousal, induced by cognitive activation, on introverts and ...
Johannes Von Gehlen, Pierre Sachse
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[Benefit and benefit assessment].

Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 2006
The term value denotes the effect(s) of an intervention which will improve, by more than just a little, prognosis and/or symptoms and/or quality of life of the patient. The value of a medical intervention has to be assessed in a way that the patient can be adequately informed and believable promises and pronouncements of such an intervention are made ...
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