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Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Voluntary Forest Certification.
(2015)
In Central Africa, finite contracts, weak local forest law, and poor monitoring erode incentives for firms to manage forests responsibly. In response, voluntary, independent certification of forest management practices ...
Fear of the Childbirth Experience.
(2015)
For many women having a generalized level of fear and anxiety about the childbirth experience is a normative response. This emotion, for some women, translated into a sense of fear that can become so overwhelming that it ...
Cost-Effectiveness of Referring Patients to Centers of Excellence for Mitral Valve Surgery
(2015-05)
BACKGROUND
The 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines state that mitral valve diseases should be repaired at a Center of Excellence (CoE). We evaluate the ...
Cerebellar gray and white matter volume and their relation with age and manual motor performance in healthy older adults
(SpringerWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-06)
ObjectivesFunctional neuroimaging and voxel‐based morphometry studies have confirmed the important role of the cerebellum in motor behavior. However, little is known about the relationship between cerebellar gray (GMv) and ...
Hospitalization Costs for Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients Treated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States Are Substantially Higher Than Medicare Payments
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-01)
BackgroundAcute coronary syndromes account for half of all deaths secondary to cardiovascular disease and represent a significant economic burden in the United States. Therefore, assessing hospitalization costs relative ...
Evolution of the Indo-Asian Orogen: Insights from the Deformation of the Northern Tibetan Plateau, Mass Balance Calculations, and Volcanic Geochemistry.
(2015)
The Indo-Asian orogen is the world’s largest region of high topography, which affects both regional climate and mammalian speciation. How and when it achieved modern elevations and crustal thicknesses remains controversial, ...
Motorists' preferences for different levels of vehicle automation
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Transportation Research Institute, 2015-07)
This report builds on a recent series of reports addressing public opinion, human factors, and safety-related issues with self-driving vehicles (Schoettle and Sivak, 2014, 2015; Sivak and Schoettle, 2015a, 2015b). A survey ...
A prediction model for colon cancer surveillance data
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.CRC Press, Inc., 2015-08-15)