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Structural ambiguity of the Chinese version of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with coronary heart disease
Background
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used screening tool designed as a case detector for clinically relevant anxiety and depression. Recent studies of the HADS in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in European countries suggest it comprises three, rather than two, underlying sub-scale dimensions. The factor structure of the Chinese version of the HADS was evaluated in patients with CHD in mainland China.
Methods
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on self-report HADS forms from 154 Chinese CHD patients.
Results
Little difference was observed in model fit between best performing three-factor and two-factor models.
Conclusion
The current observations are inconsistent with recent studies highlighting a dominant underlying tri-dimensional structure to the HADS in CHD patients. The Chinese version of the HADS may perform differently to European language versions of the instrument in patients with CHD
The Endowment Effect in a Public Good Experiment
Previous tests of the endowment effect have usually observed WTA-WTP disparities. Here, a public good experiment is employed. Both account framing and duration framing treatments are introduced to alter subjects’ perceived control over an initial endowment. Results do not indicate that preferences shift in a way consistent with the endowment effect.endowment effect, public good, willingness to pay
On the separable quotient problem for Banach spaces
While the classic separable quotient problem remains open, we survey general
results related to this problem and examine the existence of a particular
infinitedimensional separable quotient in some Banach spaces of vector-valued
functions, linear operators and vector measures. Most of the results presented
are consequence of known facts, some of them relative to the presence of
complemented copies of the classic sequence spaces c_0 and l_p, for 1 <= p <=
\infty. Also recent results of Argyros - Dodos - Kanellopoulos, and Sliwa are
provided. This makes our presentation supplementary to a previous survey (1997)
due to Mujica
RETAIL OLIGOPOLY POWER AND FLUID MILK PRICES IN BOSTON
This paper assesses the independent and joint impacts of oligopoly power of market intermediaries and the Northeast Dairy Compact (NEDC) on fluid milk prices in Boston. Empirical results reveal that price increases due to oligopoly power far outweighed those caused by the NEDC by more than 10 times. In fact, markups are estimated at approximately 33% of the retail milk price, translating into approximately 3/gallon.Demand and Price Analysis,
RETAIL OLIGOPOLY POWER, DAIRY COMPACT, AND BOSTON MILK PRICES
This paper assesses the impacts of the Northeast Dairy Compact (NEDC) and retail oligopoly power on fluid milk prices in Boston. Empirical results reveal that price increases due to oligopoly power outweighed those caused by the NEDC by nearly seven times. In fact, markups are estimated at approximately 25% of the retail milk price, translating into approximately a little less than $0.75/gallon. We also estimated that only around two-thirds of the raw milk price changes were passed forward to consumers. This helps explain why consumer prices have come down only little after elimination of the NEDC. In fact, the new milk income loss contract program, which basically provides partial price subsidies to farmers, has contributed to low raw milk prices that have generated substantial benefits to milk processors and retailers, modest benefits to farmers and consumers, all at the expense of taxpayers.Industrial Organization, Livestock Production/Industries,
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