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Balancing benefits and risks in lung cancer therapies: patient preferences for lung cancer treatment alternatives

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
BackgroundIn the treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) the combination of Immuno- Oncotherapy (IO) and chemotherapy (CT) has been found to be superior to IO or CT alone for patients’ survival.
Serena Oliveri, Lucilla Lanzoni, Jorien Veldwijk, Jorien Veldwijk, G. Ardine de Wit, Serena Petrocchi, Rosanne Janssens, Elise Schoefs, Meredith Y. Smith, Meredith Y. Smith, Ian Smith, Kristiaan Nackaerts, Marie Vandevelde, Evelyne Louis, Herbert Decaluwé, Paul De Leyn, Hanne Declerck, Francesco Petrella, Francesco Petrella, Monica Casiraghi, Monica Casiraghi, Giulia Galli, Marina Chiara Garassino, Charis Girvalaki, Isabelle Huys, Gabriella Pravettoni, Gabriella Pravettoni   +26 more
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Microscopic decision model for pedestrian route choice at signalized crosswalks [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper, two-tier mathematical models were developed to simulate the microscopic pedestrian decision-making process of route choice at signalized crosswalks.
Abdelghany, Antonini, Batty, Blue, Blue, Blue, Borgers, Dijkstra, Fang, Guo, Helbing, Helbing, Hoogendoorn, Hoogendoorn, Isobe, Jia, Klüpfel, Knoblauch, Knoblauch, Lam, Lee, Lee, Li, Muramatsu, Nasar, National Research Council (U.S.), Ortuzar, Petritsch, Qu, Robin, Schultz, Stidwill, Train, Washington, Xie, Xie, Yang, Yang, Yue, Zeng, Zhu   +40 more
core   +1 more source

Do Consumers Value Diversity in Agriculture? A Choice Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm ownership in the US today is racially and ethnically homogeneous. Diverse farmers and ranchers make up less than 10% of all producers, they tend to be less financially stable and have tighter profit margins. In the past few years, both government and industry programs have aimed to increase the participation and profitability of diverse ...
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Jared P. Hutchins, Gerald Mashange   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Colorado River is a lifeline for more than 40 million people in the western United States. However, with climate change diminishing snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains and increasing demands from agriculture and urban areas, the river's flow has become insufficient to meet all the competing needs.
Shahin Bahrami, Mani Rouhi Rad, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences for Nonpharmaceutical Interventions During the Endemic Phase of COVID-19: Discrete Choice Experiment

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundNonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are effective tools for pandemic containment but often impose significant socioeconomic consequences that intensify over time.
Yi Wang, Chee Ern Har, Sharon Hui Xuan Tan, Hooi Swang Cheng, Ian Yi Han Ang   +4 more
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generating Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Experiments in R: The idefix Package

Journal of Statistical Software, 2020
Discrete choice experiments are widely used in a broad area of research fields to capture the preference structure of respondents. The design of such experiments will determine to a large extent the accuracy with which the preference parameters can be ...
Frits Traets, Daniel Gil Sanchez, Martina Vandebroek   +2 more
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Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple, Christian Stetter, Cathal Buckley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency Loss of Mixed Equilibrium Associated with Altruistic Users and Logit-based Stochastic Users in Transportation Network

Promet (Zagreb), 2014
The efficiency loss of mixed equilibrium associated with two categories of users is investigated in this paper. The first category of users are altruistic users (AU) who have the same altruism coefficient and try to minimize their own perceived cost that
Xiao-Jun Yu, Chun-Hua Fang
doaj   +1 more source