Reconsidering the use of rankings in the valuation of health states: a model for estimating cardinal values from ordinal data

Abstract Background In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have not rsw12ul liftmaster been used in deriving cardinal valuations.This study reconsiders the role of ordinal ranks in valu

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Smart Tiles for the Preservation of Indoor Air Quality

Tiles functionalized modular pillow stack with titanium dioxide (TiO2) for the elimination of air pollutants were prepared by the dip-coating process with titanium alkoxide solution.The synthesis of the coating solution consist of a chemical method employing polyethylene glycol (PEG) to obtain better dispersion and adhesion of TiO2 particles onto t

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Applying the New Theory to Assessment Criteria of Agricultural Water Management Schemes for Sustainable Rain-fed Agriculture in Thailand

This paper describes the selection of assessment criteria to assess agricultural water management schemes for on-farm ponds to support sustainable rain-fed agriculture, guided by the New Theory of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.The candidate set of criteria was obtained from several international and national sources related to sustainable rai

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Critical Review of the Implementation of the Making of SOE as a Holding from Anti-Monopoly and Unfair Business Competition Perspective

This study aims to analyze the potential for SOE holdings to violate Law 5/1999.This study was conducted using a normative juridical method because the study was based on library research to obtain secondary data, sourced from primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials.The specification of the research was descriptive-analytical because the a

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