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Transportation is the second-largest expenditure category for households, accounting for nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent annually across the U.S.
Thomas W. Sanchez
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Productivity costs of cardiovascular disease mortality across disease types and socioeconomic groups
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the single largest contributor to global mortality. Premature mortality due to CVD results in a loss of productivity, with associated economic and policy implications that are often overlooked.Methods A human ...
Hannah Elizabeth Carter +2 more
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IMPACTS OF TOURISM ACTIVITIES ON ECONOMY OF KAZAKHSTAN [PDF]
Kazakhstan is an economically stable country in Central Asia, which recently began to pay close attention to the development of tourism industry. It is fact that, tourism is not a major component of country’s economy, as evidence, tourism industry GDP in
Ruslan BAIBURIEV +4 more
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Climate change greatly escalates forest disturbance risks to US property values
Anthropogenic climate change is projected to drive increases in climate extremes and climate-sensitive ecosystem disturbances such as wildfire with enormous economic impacts.
William R L Anderegg +4 more
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Background While the direct (medical) costs of arthritis are regularly reported in cost of illness studies, the 'true' cost to indivdiuals and goverment requires the calculation of the indirect costs as well including lost productivity due to ill-health.
Deborah Schofield +6 more
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Explaining Attitudes Towards Immigration: The Role of Economic Factors
In this article, we investigate the determinants of individuals’ opinions concerning the economic impact of immigrants. Unlike most previous studies, we use a large sample of 61 countries (Joint WVS/EVS 2017–2020 dataset) that are either net receivers or
Teresa María García-Muñoz +1 more
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ReAFFIRM: Real-time Assessment of Flash Flood Impacts: a Regional high-resolution Method [PDF]
Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the flash flood hazard (e.g.
Berenguer Ferrer, Marc +4 more
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In federal fiscal year 2000 (FY00), Berkeley Lab had 4,347 full- and part-time employees. In addition, at any given time of the year, there were more than 1,000 Laboratory guests. These guests, who also reside locally, have an important economic impact on the nine-county Bay Area.
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Background Most studies measure the impact of ischemic heart disease (IHD) on individuals using quality of life metrics such as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs); however, IHD also has an enormous impact on productive life years (PLYs).
Deborah Schofield +6 more
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The world’s aging fleet of nuclear power reactors faces decommissioning. Because decommissioning is implemented through a series of procedures, and this process changes the links between some industries, its economic impact needs to be investigated. This
Hana Kim, Eui-Chan Jeon
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