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A Structural Analysis of the Health Expenditures and Portfolio Choices of Retired Agents

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Richer and healthier agents tend to hold riskier portfolios and spend proportionally less on health expenditures. Potential explanations include health and wealth effects on preferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using HRS data, we per ...

2010

Metabolic Networks of Longevity

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper

Molecular and cellular networks implicated in aging depend on a multitude of proteins that collectively mount adaptive and contingent metabolic responses to environmental challenges. Here, we discuss the intimate links between metabolic regulation and long ...

2010

Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums

Nicholas Bornstein

Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...

2008

'I pay enough taxes already!' Applying economic voting models to environmental referendums

Philippe Thalmann, Nicholas Bornstein

Objectives. Models of economic voting have rarely been applied to referendum votes. We fill this gap by testing citizens’ voting behavior on environmental policy in relation to their perception of the business cycle. Thus, the study examines the personal, ...

2008

Gait analysis and WOMAC are complementary in assessing functional outcome in total hip replacement

Kamiar Aminian, Hooman Dejnabadi

Objective: To investigate the correlation between objective and subjective evaluation of patients with total hip replacement. Design: Prospective preliminary trial comparing the Western Ontario and McMaster University questionnaire ( WOMAC) and gait analys ...

2006

Organisation and location of academic sourcing at the firm level

Stéphane Lhuillery

Thanks to the second French Community Innovation Survey, a measurement of the importance of public research organisations as a useful source of innovation for manufacturing firms is available. We thus provide an exploratory econometric model where the inte ...

2005

Impact of the 2002 Canadian Forest Fires on Particulate Matter Air Quality in Baltimore City

Lu Wang, Marc Parlange

With increasing evidence of adverse health effects associated with particulate matter (PM), the exposure impact of natural sources, such as forest fires, has substantial public health relevance. In addition to the threat to nearby communities, pollutants r ...

2005

Drinking to their health: social analysis of a micronutrient-fortified beverage field trial

Martin Benjamin

Anthropologic research was conducted among pregnant and lactating women in rural Tanzania in conjunction with clinical trials of a micronutrient-fortified beverage. Use of the beverage was examined through interviews and ethnographic observation in clinics ...

2004

Effects of chronic lithium treatment on dopamine receptors in the rat corpus striatum. I. Locomotor activity and behavioral supersensitivity

Pierre Magistretti

Spontaneous locomotor activity and dopaminergic responsivity were assessed after long-term dietary treatment with the anti-manic drug lithium. Chronic dietary Li administration was not accompanied by the toxicities often reported with other modes of admini ...

1982

Adaptive Risk-Based Replanning For Human-Aware Multi-Robot Task Allocation With Local Perception

Alcherio Martinoli, Zeynab Talebpour

In this paper, we propose an adaptive risk-based replanning strategy in the context of multi-robot task allocation for dealing with limitations of local perception and unpredicted human behavior. Our replanning method is based on the variations of social r ...

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