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Evaluating the treatment of missing values by SAS 6.12, the first target group is considered to be an uninitiated … person like a physician who is doing his first real research in the frame of his doctoral thesis. Such a physician will … easily come to wrong conclusions as the treatment of missing values by SAS is not uniform. In one SAS-scenario, data records …
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economic hardship affects illicit drug users’ decisions to enter drug treatment. Methods: We test the hypothesis that an … unemployed drug user to enter treatment. Our hypothesis is that the “payoff” of entering treatment increases when the unemployed … entering treatment, i.e. when unemployment declines (increases) the number of drug treatment clients increases (declines). We …
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integration and treatment of migrants, and efforts to enforce those policies. Irregular migration is a particular area of focus …), international visitors and international students. The data is drawn from an assessment by country experts as well as by desk-research …
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of prevention, in that insufficient care is often the result of rational calculations on the part of agents. We identify …, positive experiences may lead to an underestimation of these risks and a corresponding underinvestment in prevention. Second … underinvest in prevention for some disasters, especially those that are relatively unlikely. …
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model. Therefore, it highlights the move towards the vicious-circle logic. Owing this vicious-circle logic, prevention must …), the fact that any prevention based on the use of force must be refrained on account of its consequences - it nourishes the …
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Prevention of disease is one of the main challenges to public health and the Bulgarian society in recent years. More … limited (an individual) range. Development of practical approaches and methods of intervention, related to the prevention of …
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Advancements in our understanding of the causes and correlates of disease mean that we are now able to estimate an individual's level of risk. This, and the ever-increasing need for healthcare interventions to be cost-effective, has led to calls for the introduction of risk-based screening....
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representatives of civil society. The special psychological, ethical issues raised especially by trafficking prevention and assistance … persons. Of special relevance are the conclusions resulted from the field research undertaken in the area covered by the …
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The issue of frauds through payment cards has received a great deal of attention from authorities. A large share of card frauds can be ascribed to the phenomenon of counterfeiting of debit cards, widely used payment instrument in “face-to-face” transactions. With the advent of the Single...
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This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
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