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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"generics"”.
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Generics in Use
This thesis is about generics, sentences like ‘Bricks are red’, ‘Boars have bristly hair’, or ‘British people love peas’. In Chapter 1, I consider what makes such sentences generics. I propose that generics should be defined as generalisations that lack overt quantifier expressions. In Chapter 2, I …
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Tool support for testing Java generics
… testing. To practice defensive programming, Java generics has been introduced. The main feature of Java generics is that it transfers runtime errors to compile time errors. Though, use of Java generics is becoming more popular, there is no tool support available to facilitate random test case …
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COMPILING AND DETECTING TYPE ERRORS IN INCOMPLETE JAVA PROGRAMS WITH GENERICS
… complete incomplete Java programs containing generics so they can be compiled, without making changes to them or undermining type safety. We present a novel constraint-based algorithm and an early prototype, JavaCIP, that does so by creating the declarations of classes or interfaces that the …
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Factors Influencing Physicians' Willingness to Substitute Generics For Brand-Names when Prescribing Antimicrobial Drugs
… or private insurance to be prescribed the generics that are cheapest relative to their brand-name counterparts. The author also finds that certain popular antimicrobial drugs such as amoxicillin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim are prescribed in the same form (generic or brand-name) by …
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Consumers' perceptions of the competitive tiers in six grocery markets
… about a blurring between brands and own labels. Generics were launched in 1977, but showed evidence of retailer branding. Consequently this research was undertaken to - assess how consumers perceive the competitive structure of 6 packaged grocery markets and - identify how consumers' perceptions …
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A comprehensive guide to the three biosimilar markets (Europe, US, Japan) and the regulatory pathways
Generics in the pharmaceutical industry have been instrumental in reducing overall healthcare cost and allowing for greater dispersal of life saving drugs to the general population. The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 played a critical role in changing the landscape of the pharmaceutical industry and …
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Effect of patent law changes on the innovation strategy of Chinese and Indian Life Science companies as reflected in US patent filings
… to its previously established capabilities as a generics manufacturer. When segmenting the data based on type of firms (academic, foreign multinationals and local private) we found that post product patent laws, local private firms exhibit more activity in India whereas local firms and …
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Pharmaceutical policies used in LMIC countries to enhance pharmaceutical spending efficiency: a review
… reduce costs, as seen in South Africa where generics account for over 65% of market volume. Tailored pharmaceutical policies can improve spending efficiency and equitable access in LMICs. Measures such as strengthening HTA systems, promoting generics, and adopting transparent pricing …
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An analysis of the impact of generic medicine reference pricing in a sector of the South African private healthcare insurance industry
… however once the reference price was set other generics tended to align at or below the reference price. The implementation of generic reference pricing was associated with an overall increase in dispensed volumes and a decrease in expenditure for both categories; both categories' originator …
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Essays in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry
… in order to take market share away from new generics rather than its own original product in its time of FDA exclusivity. Using detailed prescribing and pricing data, I document that delay and estimate cost to consumers in the prescription sleep aid market at about $644 million over seven …
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Comparative analysis of market-based health delivery models in rural India
… entities as well as experienced Indian generics manufacturers. This paper describes specific methods being employed by global pharmaceutical manufacturers in rural Indian markets, and analyzes them not only on the basis of sustainability and scalability, but also on the value delivered …
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Structural testbench development for DSP models
… model with user information which provides for generics and inputs. This thesis also shows how a requirements capture tool can be used to generate generic values.
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Test of a Multidisciplinary Health Behavior Model of Medicare Elders' Antihypertensive Acquisitions
… regarding Medicare elders' beliefs about generics with the majority (71.6 percent) who believe that the generic <em>works just as well as the name brand.</em> The complexity of antihypertensive acquisition decisions and beliefs about hypertension continue to provide a challenge for …
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The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland:place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon
… attention on qualifying elements rather than generics, and the first to collate the historical evidence for over five hundred Scottish place-name elements. As shown by this study, the Germanic toponymicon of southern Scotland deserves to take its place amongst the national resources for …
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Los medicamentos genéricos, entre la propiedad privada y la salud pública
… determine the introduction and availability of generics in the pharmaceutical market.
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Automatic back annotation of timing into VHDL behavioral models
… traversed by the signals associated with the generics. The behavioral model is synthesized into a gate level design and the end to end delays in the model are obtained using Synopsys Design Compiler. With the end to end delays and the different paths traversed by the signals an algorithm to …
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Dynamics of Polish groups
… of the Cantor set H(2^N) has ample generics, that is, we show that for every m the diagonal conjugacy action g\cdot (h_1, h_2,...,h_m) = (gh_1g^{-1}, gh_2g^{-1},..., gh_mg^{-1}) of H(2^N) on H(2^N)^m has a comeager orbit. This answers a question of Kechris and Rosendal. We prove that …
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A Test Planning System for Functional Validation of VHDL DSP Models
… constitute the input space and serve as generics of test benches. Library-based test benches are developed using high level design tools. A test planning framework uses a goal tree structure as a vehicle of planning and documenting the testing activities. In a goal tree, test goals are …
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Communicating Cancer: From Concepts to Care
… a novel analysis of these generalisations as generics in natural language and argue that generic claims about cancer treatments are best avoided in reports of clinical trials due to their propensity to mislead. Lastly, Chapter 6 addresses the challenge of communicating a cancer diagnosis and …
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Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Medicare Part D Using Conjoint Analysis
… and only $3 more to have full coverage of generics in the doughnut hole; however these values differed amongst different segments. For example, seniors with reported medication costs of at least $80 per month are willing to spend on average $20 per month for doughnut hole coverage.</p> …
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