Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPublic Funding and Affordability of Substance Abuse Treatment ServicesRoberto A. Trevino, Alan J. RichardProblem statement: Substance abuse continues to cause significant personal, social and economic costs to the US economy. In order to decrease these costs, the goal of the US public health policy has been to increase access to drug treatment services by increasing their affordability. Government policy makers try to achieve such a goal by providing direct public funding to private … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 28 Feb 2012 · 8,256 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMeasuring Predictors of Student Retention RatesAllen L. Webster, Vince E. ShowersProblem statement: Colleges and universities place more emphasis on student retention rates than ever before. Educational institutions are intensifying efforts to discourage student departure and preserve their established student base. Economic pressures that bear heavily on academic administration make such efforts highly critical for institutional success. Research on this vital issue is especially important due to the vigorous competition among … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 7 Apr 2011 · 7,254 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSports Facilities Development and Urban GenerationMaassoumeh Barghchi, Dasimah Bt Omar, Mohd Salleh AmanProblem statement: One major issue on sports facilities construction is the question of their funding and justification for investment. Due to, requirement of huge money for construction, constant maintenance costs and ancillary needs, which are almost certainly with substantial public investment, therefore, sports facilities have been considered. Further, sports facilities construction boom have been started for more than two decades. … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 8,517 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractConsumer Satisfaction with Public Health Care in ChinaLinghui Jiang, Christopher Gan, Betty Kao et al.Problem statement: Consumer satisfaction is regarded as one of the ultimate goals that all health system should strive for (Hsiao, 2003), it reflects the effectiveness of the health system in consumers’ prospect. Yet public health care services in developing countries including Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) have failed to achieve adequate level of services. China, for example, satisfaction of public health … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2009 · 8,244 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAn Economic Perspective of the Export Potentiality of Aromatic Rice in BangladeshRiffat Ara Zannat Tama, Aurup Ratan Dhar, Ismat Ara BegumThe study was conducted to assess the export potential of aromatic rice in Bangladesh as well as identify the factors affecting gross return from aromatic rice production. About 45 aromatic rice farms were selected from five villages of Dinajpur district using stratified sampling method for the study. Data were analyzed with a combination of descriptive statistics, mathematical and statistical techniques. … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 12 Jul 2018 · 8,241 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordIntegrated Resource and Cost Management Scheme for Computational GridsV. K. Manavalasundaram, K. DuraiswamyProblem statement: Autonomous decision making and resource scheduling are the main objectives of market-life computational grid. Resource providers and consumers make the scheduling decisions with cost and incentive factors. The two objectives are to maximize the success rate of job execution and to minimize fairness deviation among resources. The challenge is to develop a grid-scheduling scheme that enables individual participants … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 7 Feb 2012 · 6,565 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAspirin in Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events: Does Market Failure Matter?Roger Lee MendozaProblem statement: Against the backdrop of the 2009 scientific studies qualifying the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular benefits of aspirin, two interrelated questions are raised for investigation in this study. First, why may the government intervene in an otherwise private transaction between physician and patient and between drug manufacturer and buyer, when it involves contentious pharmacological information? Second, does government intervention make … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,430 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessAll words, across the recordCOVID-19 Diagnosis in Asymptomatic: RT-qPCR or any other Cost-Effective Method?Mayank Agarwal, Yogesh Arvind Bahurupi, Prasan Kumar PandaOn January 30th, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In the view of this pandemic, early diagnosis is the mainstay for halting the disease progression. Quantitative real-time Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) has been established as the cornerstone for the diagnosis of COVID-19. However, the significance of RT-qPCR positivity … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 17, Issue 3 · 2 Jun 2021 · 6,557 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordWinter Forage Program Benefitted Small-Scale Goat ProducersUma Karki, Lila Bahadur KarkiSmall and limited resource farmers are raising goats on pastures in the southeast USA. Nevertheless, many of these farms do not have productive and quality pastures to support the nutrient requirements of their animals. Information on forages that are suitable to improve goat pastures and sustainably grazing those pastures with goats is still lacking. Study objectives were to (1) find … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 2 · 13 Jun 2017 · 8,350 accessesView PDFCite