Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Title

Now showing items 887-906 of 1995

Impact of economic, regulatory, and patent policies on innovation in cancer chemoprevention.

Grabowski, Henry G.; Moe, JL (2008-07)

Chemoprevention agents are an emerging new scientific area that holds out the promise of delaying or avoiding a number of common cancers. These new agents face significant scientific, regulatory, and economic barriers, ...
Impact of gene variants on sex-specific regulation of human Scavenger receptor class B type 1 (SR-BI) expression in liver and association with lipid levels in a population-based study

Chiba-Falek, Ornit; Nichols, Marshall; Suchindran, Sunil; Ginsburg, Geoffrey S.; McCarthy, Dr Jeanette (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: Several studies have noted that genetic variants of SCARB1, a lipoprotein receptor involved in reverse cholesterol transport, are associated with serum lipid levels in a sex-dependent fashion. However, the ...
The impact of late career job loss on myocardial infarction and stroke: a 10 year follow up using the health and retirement survey

Gallo, W. T.; Teng, H. M.; Falba, Prof Tracy; Kasl, S. V.; Krumholz, H. M.; Bradley, E. H. (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2006)

Background: Involuntary job loss is a major life event associated with social, economic, behavioural, and health outcomes, for which older workers are at elevated risk. Objective: To assess the 10 year risk of myocardial ...
The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2008)

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water ...
Impact of Public Policy on Drug Innovation and Pricing

Grabowski, HG; Vernon, John; Thomas, Lacy Glenn (American University, 1976)
The Impact of Shame on Health-Related Quality of Life Among HIV-Positive Adults with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Kershaw, Trace; Hansen, Nathan B. (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Childhood sexual abuse is prevalent among people living with HIV, and the experience of shame is a common consequence of childhood sexual abuse and HIV infection. This study examined the role of shame in health-related ...
Impact of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on Chimpanzee Population Dynamics

Pusey, Anne (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), simian immunodeficiency virus of chimpanzees (SIVcpz) can cause CD4+ T cell loss and premature death. Here, we used molecular surveillance tools and mathematical modeling ...
Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions

Porporato, Amilcare (AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2010)

In this paper we extend recent theoretical results on the structure of the probability density function of streamflows forced by stochastic rainfall sequences. Our extension is aimed at incorporating an additional, independent ...
The Impact of Structured Support Groups for Pregnant South African Women Recently Diagnosed HIV Positive

Mundell, Jonathan P.; Visser, Maretha J.; Makin, Jennifer D.; Kershaw, Trace S.; Forsyth, Brian W. C.; Jeffery, Bridget; Sikkema, Kathleen J. (Taylor and Francis (Routledge), 2011)

The authors of this study evaluated a structured 10-session psychosocial support group intervention for newly HIV-diagnosed pregnant South African women. Participants were expected to display increases in HIV disclosure, ...
Imperial Pieties

Thorne, Susan (Oxford University Press, 2007-01-01)
Implantation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Progenitor Cells Preserves Function of Infarcted Murine Hearts

Christoforou, Nicolas; Bian, Weining; Bursac, Nenad; Leong, Kam (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Stem cell transplantation holds great promise for the treatment of myocardial infarction injury. We recently described the embryonic stem cell-derived cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) capable of differentiating into ...
The implementation of a translational study involving a primary care based behavioral program to improve blood pressure control: The HTN-IMPROVE study protocol (01295)

Bosworth, Hayden; Maciejewski, Mathew; Powers, Benjamin; Oddone, Eugene; Jackson, George (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: Despite the impact of hypertension and widely accepted target values for blood pressure (BP), interventions to improve BP control have had limited success. Objectives: We describe the design of a 'translational' ...
Implementation of the Biosimilar Pathway: Economic and Policy Issues

Grabowski, Henry; Long, G; Mortimer, R (2011)
Implicit Tax Rate Reductions with Growth, Progressive Taxes, Constant Progressivity, and a Fixed Public Share

Blackburn, Dr John (The American Economic Review, 1967)

It is the purpose of this paper to state with rigor and precision the pattern of tax rate reductions which will meet these requirements. The question is approached in Part I by means of a theoretical model with highly ...
Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War

Stein, Rebecca L. (2012)
Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information and Flexible Deliveries

Shang, Kevin (INFORMS, 2010)

In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, we consider a serial inventory system ...
Improving the Generation of Decision Objectives

Keeney, Ralph (INFORMS, 2010)

Real decision makers exhibit significant shortcomings in the generation of objectives for decisions that they face. Prior research has illustrated the magnitude of this shortcoming but not its causes. In this paper, we ...
Improving the Teaching of Economics: Achievements and Aspirations

Kelley, Allen; Bach, G. L. (American Economic Review, 1984)

Achievements and possible future projects of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education (CEE), whose goal is to improve teaching in college and university economics, are discussed. The Teacher ...
In a Farther Country: The Goyen-McCullers Freak Show

Strandberg, Victor (University of Texas Press, 1997)
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities

Lewis, Tracy; Sappington, David E. M. (The American Economic Review, 1992)

We examine the design of incentive programs to motivate regulated utilities to supply both basic service (e.g., electricity supply, local telephone service) and service enhancements (e.g., energy-conservation services, ...