This growing level of interest suggests that the ability of cost-of-illness analysis to help us understand the social impact of diseases may allow this approach to become a useful tool for designing public policies [ 55, 56].
Notably, in two cases where our results indicate a significant cost of resistance for a given bacterial species, Enne also found that prevalence was reduced following prescription reduction of penicillin for S. pneumoniae (Austin et al. 1999) and quinolones for E. coli (Gottesman et al. 2009), lending some support to the predictive ability of costs of resistance from individual mutations.
In addition, cost data by the Swiss National Insurance for Accidents (UVG) were used to confirm the ability of our cost data to represent the average Swiss patient undergoing either surgical or conservative treatment for ACL rupture.
This finding was not anticipated since Medicare beneficiaries with Medicaid coverage have greatly reduced cost-sharing for medical visits (infused anti-TNF administration) and prescription drug co-payments (self-administered anti-TNFs), and the ability of reduced cost-sharing to increase biological use and drive anti-TNF selection is well documented.
In contrast to mammography, the ability of the higher cost techniques of CT, MRI and PET to be cost-effective in cancer screening remains to be demonstrated.
Numerous oxide structures are successfully created to demonstrate the ability of this low cost and accurate system, including a 30 μm long cantilever.
While Gan et al. [8] proposed automatic patterning with AFM through local anodic oxidation, with numerous oxide structures being successfully created to demonstrate the ability of this low cost and accurate system.
"We have the ability to take advantage of cost benefits that off shore engineering brings us, and we continue to leverage that.
As shown in the table, reducing epsilon (i.e., enabling more thorough model development) leads to major increase of predictive ability, whereas the influence of cost (penalizing large errors) is rather small at any epsilon level.
The results show that by combination of wire-winding and autofrettage techniques, in addition to ability of reducing production costs, infinite fatigue life could be accessible.
This study deals with the examination of the ability of a low-cost electronic nose (e‐nose) for prediction of banana quality indices such as total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), pH and firmness at different shelf-life stages.
