The rationale of this paper is to identity the causes of low performance companies that are operating in the information technology sector, which is seen as a key driver of the Romanian economy. A model is designed to extract the productivity distribution of the sector’s companies based on a...

The schizophrenia specific and overall health care costs of unstable patients were clearly higher than was the case with stable patients and mainly determined by inpatient hospital treatment. A range of potential predicting factors which can be extracted from routine claims data have a positive...

A form of stabilizing feedback law is proposed for a class of delay systems occurring frequently in practice. It makes use of predictor forms elaborated with distributed delays. Two examples are examined and a procedure for single-input, single-output systems is given. A comparison with other...

Despite the paucity of empirical evidence indicating the impact of money arguments on spousal relationship outcomes, it is common belief that money plays a large role in the life of couples. This study used panel data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine how...