For the past seventy years, intellectual property law’s right of publicity has allowed for celebrities to monetize their names, images and likenesses for commercial gain. However, until recently, college athletes remained excluded from the endorsement marketplace based on the National...

We investigate the implications of a personal health record (PHR) platform on the adoption and sharing of electronic health records (EHR). Through our analysis, we find evidence that health care providers may not have an incentive to share patients’ records electronically even though EHR...

There are widespread differences in total factor productivity across producers in the U.S. and around the world. To help explain these variations, we devise a general test for misallocation in input choices - the underuse of effective inputs and overuse of ineffective ones. Misallocation implies...

The NCAA’s NIL policy left a great deal of grey area for schools and conferences to fill in. In this space, collectives have emerged to fill the financial role that booster groups were prohibited from fulfilling, and while NCAA policy still prohibits pay-for-play schemes, collectives have...

Ebola virus is a zoonotic virus comprised of 6 different species designated within the family Filo-viridae and genus Ebolavirus. The first recorded outbreak of an Ebola virus (EBOV) was in Yambuku, Zaire (ZEBOV) in 1976, followed by Sudan Ebola virus (SUBOV) later that year. Outbreaks have been...

This paper presents and assesses analytical strategies that respect the bounded count structures of outcomes that are encountered often in health and other applications. The paper's main motivation is that the applied econometrics literature lacks a comprehensive discussion and critique of...

There is a correlation between our posture and our physical and emotional wellness. The detection of various human postures has been approached in a variety of ways. Determine a patient's resting position, for example, using posture analysis in the medical industry. Image processing using openCV...

Background: Saliva is a versatile biofluid that can help in detecting any oral or systemic disease ofan individual. Saliva seems to be clinically an informative biofluid for easy prognosis of a diseaseand clinical or laboratory diagnosis of oral as well as many systemic diseases. It has some...

This paper concentrates upon a recent technological development called voice bots. In the past decade voice bots have been a very major part of various industries. Here the concentration will be on understanding the working of voice bots initially. Furthermore it includes a discussion on how...

We examine contracts between insurers and physicians when the treatment is chosen to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit (“physician agency”). The degree of substitution between doctor profit and patient benefit in the physician-patient coalition is the...