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Head and facial injuries due to cluster munitions
No full textCluster munitions are weapons that scatter smaller sub-munitions intended to kill or mutilate on impact. They have been used by the Israeli army in the south of Lebanon and are now scattered over wide rural areas affecting its inhabitants. Because of their easily pickable nature, sub-munitions can inflict injuries to the head and face regions. In this study, we aimed to explore the head and face injuries along with their clinical features in a group of Lebanese patients who suffered from such injuries due to a sub-munition's detonation. The study included all the cases reported between 14 August 2006 and 15 February 2013, with head and face injuries related to cluster bombs. Injuries were classified into brain, eye, otologic and auditory impairments, oral and maxillofacial, and skin and soft-tissue injuries. Psychological effects of these patients were also examined as for post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and acute stress syndrome. During the study period, there were 417 casualties as a result of cluster munitions' blasts. Out of the total number of victims, 29 (7 percent) were injured in the head and the face region. The convention on cluster munitions of 2008 should be adhered to, as these inhumane weapons indiscriminately and disproportionately harm innocent civilians, thereby violating the well-established international principles governing conflict and war today. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.American Psychiatric Association, 2013, DIAGN STAT MAN MENT, P271; Bandak FA, 1996, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJU, P167; Beehner L, 2006, BACKGROUNDER; BRANDVOLD B, 1990, J NEUROSURG, V72, P15, DOI 10.3171-jns.1990.72.1.0015; Bryant K, 2009, B WORLD HEALTH ORGAN, V87, P8; Campbell DG, 2007, J GEN INTERN MED, V22, P711, DOI 10.1007-s11606-006-0101-4; COOPER PR, 1979, NEUROSURGERY, V4, P373; Corbman GR, 1997, ANXIETY DISORDERS CU; Fares Youssef, 2013, J Infect Public Health, V6, P482, DOI 10.1016-j.jiph.2013.05.006; Fares Y, 2013, NEUROL SCI, V34, P2095, DOI 10.1007-s10072-013-1343-7; Fares Y, 2013, NEUROL SCI, V34, P1971, DOI 10.1007-s10072-013-1427-4; Torpy Janet M, 2011, JAMA, V305, P522, DOI 10.1001-jama.305.5.522; GUALTIERI T, 1991, Brain Injury, V5, P219, DOI 10.3109-02699059109008093; Hurley RA, 2004, J NEUROPSYCH CLIN N, V16, P1, DOI 10.1176-appi.neuropsych.16.1.1; KAUFMAN HH, 1986, NEUROSURGERY, V18, P689; Mendez CV, 2005, J NEUROPSYCH CLIN N, V17, P297, DOI 10.1176-appi.neuropsych.17.3.297; Muzaffar W, 2000, BRIT J OPHTHALMOL, V84, P626, DOI 10.1136-bjo.84.6.626; RISH BL, 1983, J NEUROSURG, V59, P775, DOI 10.3171-jns.1983.59.5.0775; Sayer NA, 2008, ARCH PHYS MED REHAB, V89, P163, DOI 10.1016-j.apmr.2007.05.0250
Hedonic pricing models for metropolitan bus services
No full textConventional studies on the pricing of bus services use the cost structure to explain bus fares. In this paper, a hedonic pricing model for bus services in Hong Kong is estimated. The contributions of cost and market factors are uncovered. It is found that the cost factors dominate the determination of bus fares. In contrast to our expectation, bus fares do not react to competition faced by bus companies. Moreover, except the three cross-harbour tunnels, the bus fare has no direct relationship with the tolls of other tunnels. Our model serves well as a reference tool for bus companies to set market-acceptable bus fares.Hedonic Pricing Model, Bus Fares, Kowloon Motor Bus.
A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TOP SELLING VIDEO GAMES AND THEIR PRODUCTION STAFF
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Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
No full textThis paper investigates why passengers pay substantially different fares for travel on the same airline between the same two airports. We investigate questions that are fundamentally different from those in the existing literature on airline price dispersion. We use a unique new dataset to test between two broad classes of theories regarding airline pricing. The first group of theories, as advanced by Dana (1999b) and Gale and Holmes (1993), postulates that airlines practice scarcity based pricing and predicts that variation in ticket prices is driven by differences between high demand and low demand periods. The second group of theories is that airlines practice price discrimination by using ticketing restrictions to segment customers by willingness to pay. We use a unique dataset, a census of ticket transactions from one of the major computer reservation systems, to study the relationships between fares, ticket characteristics, and flight load factors. The central advantage of our dataset is that it contains variables not previously available that permit a test of these theories. We find only mixed support for the scarcity pricing theories. Flights during high demand periods have slightly higher fares but exhibit no more fare dispersion than flights where demand is low. Moreover, the fraction of discounted advance purchase seats is only slightly higher on off-peak flights. However, ticket characteristics that are associated with second-degree price discrimination drive much of the variation in ticket pricing.
La legge n. 24/2017 e le competenze delle regioni speciali e ordinarie. Clausola di salvaguardia (art. 17)
No full textIl saggio analizza l'impatto della legge n. 24/2017, in tema di sicurezza delle cure e responsabilità degli esercenti le professioni sanitarie, sull'assetto delle competenze legislative delle regioni ad autonomia ordinaria e ad autonomia speciale. Dopo una riflessione sul significato e sull'estensione della clausola di salvaguardia per le regioni speciali alla luce dell'art. 10 della legge cost. n. 3/2001, l'indagine si sofferma sulle specifiche "interferenze" della legge statale 24/2017 con le competenze regionali concorrenti e residuali, soprattutto con riferimento alla disciplina dei Centri per la gestione del rischio sanitario e del procedimento per la definizione delle "linee guida"
THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF AIRLINE DEREGULATION ON FEEDER ROUTES IN THE FAR WEST
No full textIn anticipation of the air transportation regulatory reform act, this paper assesses the consequences of deregulating the airline industry. Particular attention is devoted to the impact of deregulation on air fares, travel demand, and flight frequency for relatively short feeder routes connecting small cities and rural centers. On the basis of a sample of routes in the far western states, it appears that deregulation would raise fares on routes shorter than 100 miles while lowering prices on longer trunk routes connecting major metropolitan areas. Flight frequency on particular routes would be curtailed by approximately 28 percent as airlines substituted price competition for non-price rivalry under a new regulatory regime.Public Economics,
Tewfik Fares Empreintes de silences , 1989
No full textDéjeux Jean. Tewfik Fares Empreintes de silences , 1989. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1123, Juin-juillet 1989. L'immigration portugaise en France. pp. 96-97
Bishr Fares. Vision chrétienne et signes musulmans
No full textGuillaumont Antoine. Bishr Fares. Vision chrétienne et signes musulmans. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 168, n°2, 1965. pp. 212-213
The impact of airport capacity constraints on air fares
No full textEconomic theory predicts that air fares at congested airports will be higher when airport capacity is insufficient to accommodate all passenger demand, as that excess passenger demand allows airlines to increase their air fares. Using econometric analysis of 65.000 air fares on a representative sample of city pair markets to/from European airports, SEO and Cranfield University have isolated the impact of airport capacity constraints on air fares, in a study commissioned by ACI EUROPE. The study finds that higher levels of capacity utilization are indeed associated with higher air fares, controlling for other factors that influence air fares. We estimate the total additional fare premium at congested European airports at 2.1 billion euro today. Airport capacity shortages in Europe are becoming increasingly severe. Based on EUROCONTROL's 'Challenges of Growth' forecasts, the total fare premium levied by airlines at congested airports is projected to reach 6.3 billion euro by 2035
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