U S Economy
Mostrando 13-23 de 23 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Testing the Optimality of Aggregate Consumption Decisions: Is there Rule-of-Thumb Behavior?
Consumption is an important macroeconomic aggregate, being about 70% of GNP. Finding sub-optimal behavior in consumption decisions casts a serious doubt on whether optimizing behavior is applicable on an economy-wide scale, which, in turn, challenge whether it is applicable at all. This paper has several contributions to the literature on consumption optimal
Publicado em: 15/02/2009
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14. Síntese, análise, purificação e biodistribuição em modelo animal do Radiofármaco 177Lu3+-dotatato para uso diagnóstico e terapêutico em tumores neuroendócrinos / SYNTHESIS, ANALYSIS, PURIFICATION AND BIODISTRIBUTION IN AN ANIMAL MODEL OF RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL 177Lu3+- DOTATATO FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC USE IN NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS
The aim of this work was to propose rationalization in the synthesis, analysis and purification of radiopharmaceutical 177Lu3+-DOTATATO for diagnostic and therapeutic use in neuroendocrine tumors, as well as for evaluating biodistribution of this radiopharmaceutical in an animal-model. The complexation reaction for the synthesis of radiopharmaceutical was ca
Publicado em: 2009
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15. The Effect of Social Security, Demography and Technology on Retirement
This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in retirement over the second part of the last century in the U.S. economy. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous retir
Publicado em: 08/12/2008
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16. THREE ESSAYS ON REGIONAL ECONOMICS
The study on regional economics has two particular characteristics that differentiate it from any other field in economics. Macroeconomic variables and national borders are not the focus of analyses, even though regional planners can measure the regional effects of national policies. In this aspect, areas of study in which microeconomic instruments are the m
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 2007
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17. Comportamento de pilares mistos, com ênfase na zona de introdução de cargas
This work presents the study of composite columns with emphasis on local load introduction zones. The main reason of studying local load introduction zones, here named ZIC, or ZICs, is the need of understanding their behavior not easily found in technical literatures. Experimental analysis with 6 (six) real scale models, elasto-plastics analysis of those tes
Publicado em: 2006
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18. The Effects of Longevity and Distortions on Education and Retirement
This article studies the impact of longevity and taxation on life-cycle decisions and long-run income. Individuals allocate optimally their total lifetime between education, working and retirement. They also decide at each moment how much to save or consume out of their income, and after entering the labor market how to divide their time between labor and le
Fundação Getulio Vargas. Publicado em: 02/06/2005
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19. Saude do trabalhador no Brasil : analise do modelo de atenção proposto para o Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS)
In Brazil, health care attention to the worker s classes started from an excluding model which privileged workers from the formal economy, linking the capital interests for the control of the work force. At the beginning, the health sector s participation was very limited in this area. At the end of 1970 s, new health care models for workers were started to
Publicado em: 1998
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20. Access to Ambulatory Care and the U.S. Economy
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21. A Job Classification Scheme for Health Manpower
The Census Bureau's occupational classification scheme and concept of the “health services industry” are inadequate tools for analysis of the changing job structure of health manpower. In an attempt to remedy their inadequacies, a new analytical framework—drawing upon the work of James Scoville on the job content of the U.S. economy—was devised.
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22. Update on inflation of journal prices: medical journals, U.S. journals, and Brandon/Hill list journals.
This paper examines the increases in prices for the last twenty years for the journals listed in the 1987 Brandon/Hill list and for the last twelve years for those on a list of medical and general periodicals published annually in Library Journal. This information is compared to the general U.S. inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Despite
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23. Clinical Care and the Factory Floor
The purpose of this article is to provide the author's perspective on whether it is likely or feasible that those working in the health care domain will adapt and use lessons learned by those in the industrial domain. This article provides some historical perspective on the changes brought about in the industrial domain through the introduction of new t
American Medical Informatics Association.