Taxes on unhealthy foods and sweetened beverages, as well as subsidies to healthy foods, have become increasingly popular strategies to curb obesity and related non-communicable diseases.The existing evidence on the welfare effects of such fiscal policies is mixed and almost uniquely focused on tax schemes.Using the 2016-2017 Chilean Household Budg
The extension of thermodynamics into the quantum regime has received much attention in recent years.A primary objective of current research is to find thermodynamic tasks which can be enhanced by quantum mechanical effects.With this goal in mind, we explore the finite-time dynamics of absorption refrigerators composed of three quantum bits (qubits)
We recently investigated the design and fabrication of Langevin-type transducers for HATS therapeutic ultrasound.Effect of ultrasonic energy arising from the transducer on biological tissue was examined.In this study, the transducer was set to radiate acoustic energy to mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for inducing differentiation into cartilage tissu
We argue that the alternative hypotheses about cross-country convergence dynamics, namely the Conditional Convergence Hypothesis, Absolute Convergence Hypothesis, and Club Convergence hypothesis, build upon different modelling choices and answer different empirical questions.Hence, results favoring one hypothesis are not necessarily evidence agains