Effiziente Reduktion des Produktionsrisikos im Ackerbau durch Ertragsversicherungen In Europa werden staatliche Hilfen für Ertragsversicherungen nach dem Vorbild der USA oder Kanada gefordert. In dieser Arbeit werden daher zum einen Bedingungen erarbeitet, unter denen die Subventionierung von...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks have emerged as a prevalent way to compromise the availability of networks/servers, which imposed financial losses for e-commerce businesses. Many defenses that mitigate the effect of ongoing DDOS attacks have been proposed. However, none of the...

Over 380000 tons of vegetable waste is produced annually in the “Campo de Dalías” zone(Almería, Spain), deriving from the diverse existing crops grown under plastic cover. Landfillscontaining this vegetable waste are a potential breeding ground for diseases and pests, they can alsobe the...

Background: Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) describe the probability that a new treatment or intervention is cost-effective. The net benefit regression framework (NBRF) allows cost-effectiveness analysis to be done in a simple regression framework. The objective of the paper is...

PURPOSE OF STUDY: This article presents acuity and dosage as two concepts that describe how the business case for case management (CM) can be made. Dosage and acuity concepts are explained as client need-severity, CM intervention-intensity, and CM activity-dose by amount, duration, extent, and...

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to estimate the effects of heparin flush and saline flush solutions on maintaining patency, preventing phlebitis, and increasing duration in peripheral heparin locks. The average effect size (d value) across 15 studies with a total sample size of 3,490 was...

The method of elicitation has an important effect on valuations. We investigate the effect of perspective on decision makers' elicited values. We conduct experimental sessions in which participants act as sellers or buyers, and replicate the disparity between willingness to accept and...

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the use of cost effectiveness for interventions in orthopaedics. This was done through three cost effectiveness articles that have been published by the author. In each of these articles, similar methodologies were used. Decision models were constructed...