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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -
Filter, Ilona - 2010
Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...
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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960
Lee, Jeho - 1996
dominated the market in the two decades following 1960. In sum, this study corroborates the central part of evolutionary theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439017
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"Your Life is Waiting!": Symbolic Meanings in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Advertising
Grow, Jean; Park, Jin Seong; Han, Xiaoqi - 2006
This semiotic analysis demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies strategically frame depression within the hotly contested terrain of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The study tracks regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, relative to DTC advertising, including recent industry codes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484498
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Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry's legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation
Mosley, Raul A - 2006
institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy …. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry's right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257 … as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430368
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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning
Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009
As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...
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Essays in international finance and search theory.
Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992
This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...
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Equilibrium, efficient-markets, and liquidity in the cash-in-advance model
Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez; Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez - 1991
equilibrium theory. Consider, for instance, the case of the efficiency of forward exchange rates vis-a-vis spot rates. Depending …
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ESTIMATION OF THE LINEAR AND QUADRATIC EXPENDITURE SYSTEMS FOR COLOMBIAN HOUSEHOLDS
MARTIN, THOMAS LEE; MARTIN, THOMAS LEE - 1981
This study is an empirical analysis of household expenditure behavior using the Linear and Quadratic Expenditure Systems. The expenditure systems are estimated using data collected in 1972 by the Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadisticas (DANE) of Bogota, Colombia. The Linear...
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Essays on parametric and nonparametric modeling and estimation with applications to energy economics
Gao, Weiyu; Gao, Weiyu - 1999
My dissertation research is composed of two parts: a theoretical part on semiparametric efficient estimation and an applied part in energy economics under different dynamic settings. The essays are related in terms of their applications as well as the way in which models are constructed and...
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Three essays on time series with nonstandard nonstationary models
Miller, James Isaac; Miller, James Isaac - 2005
In the first chapter; we consider nonlinear transformations of random walks driven by thick-tailed innovations with infinite means or variances. In particular, we show how nonlinearity, nonstationarity, and thick tails interact to generate persistency in memory, and we clearly demonstrate that...
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