Costs of outpatient medication for CF patients significantly depend on age, co-morbidities and other clinical parameters. Hence, non-optimal treatment could lead to a significantly higher burden for the healthcare system. </AbstractSection> Copyright Adis Data Information BV 2010

Despite increasing acceptance of digital channels, total sales in the music business decreased by 31 % from 2004 to 2010. Music piracy is still considered one of the main causes for this. However, several studies found no effects or even positive effects of illegal downloading on record sales....

Our search model combines two search methods, the public employment service (PES) and random search. The separation rate is endogenous, the job matching process consists of three stages. In the first and the second respectively the short-term (STU) and the long-term unemployed (LTU) randomly...