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Identifying High‐Impact Solutions to Address Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Lupus: A Consensus‐Based Approach

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We conducted formative research aimed at identifying solutions that address inequitable health outcomes in lupus due to adverse social determinants of health (SDoH). Methods We conducted a search for keywords, which provided insights into potential solutions and initiatives underway. An advisory panel of lupus experts iteratively reviewed the
Joy Buie, Michael P. Fisher, Kristen Backor, Hannah Tyldsley, Ashira Blazer, Candace Feldman, Andrea Knight, S. Sam Lim, Barbara Ann Polk, Ed Yelin, Edith Williams, Karen H. Costenbader   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cocoa Farmers’ Preference and Willingness to Pay for Climate-Smart Extension Services (CES): A Choice Experiment Approach

SAGE Open
Governments budget cuts to free agricultural extension services in developing countries have led to advocacy for development and implementation of cost-effective extension services to be partly paid for by beneficiary farmers.
Emmanuel W. Inkoom, Samuel K. N. Dadzie
doaj   +1 more source

VaR bounds for joint portfolios with dependence constraints

Dependence Modeling, 2016
Based on a novel extension of classical Hoeffding-Fréchet bounds, we provide an upper VaR bound for joint risk portfolios with fixed marginal distributions and positive dependence information. The positive dependence information can be assumed to hold in
Puccetti Giovanni, Rüschendorf Ludger, Manko Dennis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Outcomes of Patients Within the Rheumatoid Arthritis Care Pathway Cohort at a Tertiary Care Integrated Delivery Network: A Comparison to Usual Care

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to compare clinical outcomes between patients in the Allegheny Health Network rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care pathway and patients receiving usual care. Methods The care pathway initiative implements guideline‐based best practice alongside multidisciplinary team‐based care.
Tarun Sharma, Tyson S. Barrett, Teigan Dwyer, Nancy Campbell, Jessica Heintzinger, Ellen Kraemer, Adam Dore, Susan Manzi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The value of life and the rise in health spending [PDF]

Health care extends life. Over the past half century, Americans spent a rising share of total economic resources on health and enjoyed substantially longer lives as a result. Debate on health policy often focuses on limiting the growth of health spending.
Charles I. Jones, Robert E. Hall
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ESTIMATING EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION EXPENDITURES ON PRODUCTIVITY: A TRANSLOG PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH [PDF]

The effects of agricultural research and extension expenditures on productivity in the United States are estimated during the period 1949-81 using data for ten production regions.
Lu, Yao-Chi, Lyu, Syu-Jyun Larry, White, Fred C.   +2 more
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Ultrasonography Compared With Computed Tomography in Identifying Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objectives of this study were to evaluate the correlation and agreement between ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) in measuring ascending aorta diameter in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) and to investigate the development of new ascending aortic aneurysms in patients with newly diagnosed GCA.
Anne C. Bull Haaversen, Lene K. Brekke, Tanaz A. Kermani, Øyvind Molberg, Andreas P. Diamantopoulos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Returns to Investment in Agricultural Research in Finland 1950—1984

Agricultural and Food Science, 1987
This study attempts to estimate the value marginal product and the marginal internal rate of return for agricultural research in Finland. Based on production function analysis, different Cobb-Douglas and linear models are specified and estimated.
John Sumelius
doaj  

Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for the farmbetter mobile app-based agricultural extension: evidence from a BDM experiment in Tanzania and Burkina Faso

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Financial contributions from farmers are increasingly acknowledged as a sustainable mechanism for funding extension services. However, the literature on willingness to pay (WTP) for digital agricultural extension is limited.
Cool Dady Mangole, Kelvin Mulungu, Christian Kamala Kaghoma, Maurice Tschopp, Menale Kassie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ambiguity, Infra-Marginal Investors, and Market Prices [PDF]

It is difficult to explain the price insensitive or infra-marginal behavior, an example of which is the behavior of credit markets during the recent financial crisis, by risk aversion alone.
Siddiqi, Hammad
core   +1 more source