, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constant.] 1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, ...
The key question was whether the additional acquisition costs of SGAs over FGAs would be offset by improvements in health-related quality of life or savings in the use of other health and social care services in people with schizophrenia for whom a change in drug treatment was being considered ...
It was with the acquisition of a trade monopoly in mind that the North West Company - the only serious challenger to the vast commercial claims of the venerable Hudson's Bay Company in 10 the North West - decided to push its trading activities beyond the Rocky Mountains where the British ...
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLH). Preventive tuberculosis therapy reduces mortality in PLH, especially in those with a positive tuberculin skin test (TST). New, more specific technologies for detecting latent
Although all of these items are agency-related costs; user costs such as vehicle acquisition and operating (fuel and maintenance) costs (Section 1), and user time costs (Stephan and Stephan, 2016) are also used. Hasan et al. (2018b) also highlighted the significance of PT fares to users...
partner notification approach of prevalent STIs would cost USD 4499 per DALY; thus, the implementation of selective screening with partner tracing is seen as a cost-effective intervention [72]. Eight studies focused on HIV/STI screening targeted atMSM, five in the US, two in the Netherlands, ...
The key question was whether the additional acquisition costs of SGAs over FGAs would be offset by improvements in health-related quality of life or savings in the use of other health and social care services in people with schizophrenia for whom a change in drug treatment was being considered ...
Instead of creating a custom amplifier, the authors opted for a low-cost two-channel EEG system for signal acquisition (EEG-SMT, Olimex, Plovdiv, Bulgaria). In [38], the authors developed an inexpensive BCI system for upper-limb stroke rehabilitation. This system relied on a higher-cost ...
The LCC approach, as an instrument for complete and comprehensive cost recording, particularly emphasizes the consideration of the entire life cycle of a procurement object. “Life cycle” is often paraphrased with the colloquial but very catchy term: “from cradle to grave” [22,23]. Although ...
Based on the case study of a Portuguese granite processing plant, this work analysed, by experimental tests and Environmental and Cost Life Cycle analyses, the feasibility of GS valorisation as a substitute (i) for feldspar in a ceramic paste and (ii) fine–medium inert filler in structural ...