Cost-Benefit Analysis - Science topic

I want to calculate the sample size for a research project designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new public health interventions compared to routine healthcare. However, I faced difficulties in obtaining relevant parameters required for sample size calculations, like mean cost and effect difference, standard deviations in cost and effect, etc. (due to a lack of prior research in the area).

Is there an alternative approach to calculating sample size for trial-based cost-effectiveness analysis when pertinent data from previous studies are unavailable? Although a pilot study is a practical option, I'm interested in exploring other recommendations, possibly rules of thumb, to guide initial sample size estimation for trial-based CEA (N.B: outcome/effect will not be measured in QUALY but in natural units; like body weight reduced, etc.).

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I'm from Mexico and I would like some recommendations on brands of ELISA kits that measure cytokine/chemokine in plasma. As my question states, I am particularly interested in SDF-1/CXCL12 but I would appreciate feedback of your experience with ELISA kits of Latin American circulating brands even if for other proteins (reliability, cost/benefit, precoated vs DIY kits, etc.).

Thank you in advance

Dear friends,

I have an experience of conducting feasibility (cost-benefit) study of different crop production practices using plot level treatments. In this case, the methodology is simply recording the costs and returns of each treatment (plot) and compare their profitability. However, now I planned to undertake a feasibility study on different crop production practices (technologies) using face to face interview with producer farmers. But, I fear that the data will face some realiablity issue due to farmers' recalling problem.

So that, in order to releave such problem and to increase the scientific acceptability of the study, 1. What type of methodologies should I follow?!

2. Again, can you please share or recommend me some documents like questionnaires, methods and studies used some where else?!

Thank you in advance!!

Static noise margin analysis using butterfly curves has traditionally played a leading role in the sizing and optimization of SRAM cell structures.

Why are ethical considerations important for CEA? Things need to mention during writing ethical considerations for cost-effectiveness analysis. Could anyone suggest me, please?

Modern method of roofing with eco-friendly benefits to the environment

I am interested in a two country model where one country has excess labor and the other country has shortage of labor due let us say aging population. The model should include remittances send to the excess labor country. Such a model can examine cost-benefits of such a relation. The model should be capable of examining a long run equilibrium relation where both

countries coulfd be better off.

Such a model maybe can be geralized intto two group of countries for example Europe vs North Africa .or

US-and Canda in relation to Central Americe countries.

Thank you

George K Zestos

what is the impact of time horizon in benefit-cost assessment (BCA) Let's say if we perform BCA for 5 years and BCA for 10 years? Which is preferred and why?

A Latin American company has National and International projects. National ones have high productivity (in terms of hours spent and hours billed to the customer), but the profit is low (compared to the International projects) because the incomes and the costs of the projects are in Pesos (a weak currency). On the other hand, the International projects have a productivity of around 60%, but since the incomes are in Dollars and the costs are in Pesos, they are highly profitable, even though they are not productive.

This has bias the perception and had led the company to believe that the 60% of productivity is fine because the profit is enough. On the other hand, is very difficult to compare one type of project with the other.

How would you recommend to assess the cost-benefit analysis in an agnostic point of view, that make both types of projects comparable?

What would be the standard protocol for estimating the economic studies in terms of benefit derived and cost incurred in any Agricultural experiments (both field trials and laboratory experiments)?

It is B:C ratio with my best understanding but few of the researchers claims it is C:B ratio. As I'm not an Economist I'm unable to decode this logic.

I'm looking forward to an appropriate answer with a good logical explanation.

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Which the best cost-benefit ratio for publication of papers in Journals with the keywords #SHM, #Civil Structures, #Smart Materials, #AI, #Electromehanical Impedance, #Analysis in-situ?

Whenever I search for papers on google scholar regarding my topic i.e. 'Economic Evaluation of the Impact of Air Pollution on Public Health in Delhi', most research papers are based on Atmospheric Sciences. I intend to focus my review on the aspect of Economics. Kindly help me with the most relevant search engines or techniques, that might make my search for relevant articles easy.

I suggest and have experience with lepton, tamarisk, flir vue, would they have any other indication?

Please assist. I have used the used answers above to calculate the cost: benefit ratio and have a decimal figure (example 1,4) but some literature presents the cost: benefit ratio as (example 1:14.31). Please explain the second example.

Please help. I am looking for Economic Evaluation Reference of any of the following plants:

Tribulus terrestris

Bacopa monnieri

Now a days the term "ecological agriculture" is used extensively worldwide in the context of protecting environment. Different chemicals like fertilizers, pesticides etc. are used to produce agricultural products successfully those have adverse effect on environment. That is why the use of these types of chemicals should be minimized/reduced to protect environment in the context of "ecological agriculture". But the computation of "cost benefit ratio" of an agricultural product is a must for the farmers or producers as to understand their profit or loss. However, the question arises whether "cost benefit ratio" is a considerable parameter in "ecological agriculture" or not.

Dear RG members

I am starting to teach CBA course for PhD students at my university. Could anyone recommend me what case study may be the best to show/teach to PhD students for CBA?

The case should be illustrative and implications should be easy to grasp to students, and it should be Scientific Paper or Report done by international organizations like WorldBank, ADB, or FAO etc.

Thank you for your support

Ganzorig Gonchigsumlaa

Dear connections,

I want to calculate the cost-benefits of standardising mechanical equipments e.g. tooling machines, lathes, CNC. In other words, I want to calculate the losses if I deviate from standardization. I am looking for research papers which shows the quantitative analyses of cost benefits from standardising. Or, if there is any paper which shows the process of calculating losses for deviating from standardization, I would like to get that too.

Please support me if you come across any such research paper.

Thank you,

Ankan

Dear Colleagues,

Energy communities are facing changing regulatory and technological landscapes, which represent both opportunities for and barriers to their development. On the one hand, the new European clean energy regulation envisages important roles for energy communities in energy systems and provides enabling conditions for their deployment (EU, 2019). Furthermore, new types of interactions among active consumers, prosumers and prosumagers are emerging, often facilitated by decentralized storage, smart grid technologies, distributed energy resources and other small-scale technologies, as well as local exchanges enabled by innovative blockchain-based peer-to-peer trading platforms and local energy markets (Giotitsas et al., 2015; Hahnel et al., 2019; Koirala et al., 2018b, 2019; Parra et al., 2016, 2017). All these evolutions create new opportunities for energy communities to play an active role in transitioning towards more sustainable energy systems (Devine-Wright, 2019; van der Schoor and Scholtens, 2019; Rommel et al., 2018; Karunathilake et al., 2018; Koirala et al., 2016; Bauwens, 2016; Schoor et al., 2016; Dóci et al., 2015). In turn, the integration of electricity, heating and transport sector together with community engagement is expected to contribute to more flexible, cost effective and efficient local energy systems (Koirala et al., 2016; Thellufsen and Lund, 2016). In this regard, energy communities are a modern development to re-organize the energy system to simultaneously integrate distributed energy resources and engage local communities (Bauwens and Devine-Wright, 2018; Koirala et al., 2016).

On the other hand, policies that have boosted the development of local renewable projects are being withdrawn across several European countries, including pioneers like Denmark and Germany, where shifts from feed-in tariffs to more market-based instruments have progressively taken place (Bauwens et al., 2016; Leiren and Reimer, 2018; Lundberg, 2019). This has led energy communities to become increasingly professional and commercial and to search for new business models. This has notably involved a diversification of their revenue streams by proposing other offerings on the top of renewable energy generation, for example electric mobility services, energy efficiency models and demand side management (Funkhouser et al., 2015; Gui and MacGill, 2018; Herbes et al., 2017; Mirzania et al., 2019). Another notable evolution is the emergence of networks, intermediaries, coalitions and collaborative dynamics among initiatives, which help existing and aspiring communities with various aspects of project development and advocacy work (Bauwens et al., 2019; Hargreaves et al., 2013; Huybrechts and Haugh, 2018).

These changes in policies and business models will likely have consequences on the forms of, and motivations behind, participation in energy communities. Until recently, energy communities were driven by environmentally or socially motivated collectives of citizens willing to collaborate, share benefit and challenge incumbent energy systems (Bauwens, 2016; Koirala et al., 2018a; Rogers et al., 2008; Wirth, 2014). It remains to be seen how these policy changes and these evolutions in business models will affect the dynamics of community engagement. Similarly whether, these new networks and intermediary organizations will be able to ensure the inclusion of a broader diversity of communities is an open question.

This special issue in Sustainabilty will focus on the process aspects of the ongoing energy transition by contributing to knowledge acquisition on how these changing policy and technological landscapes affect energy communities in terms of conditions for emergence and development, motivations and social dynamics of collective action and participation business models, energy system integration options, local energy market design, policy and regulatory issues, socio-technical configurations and community engagement. In this context, this special issue invites interdisciplinary contributions on technological, socio-economic and institutional aspects of energy communities as well as their roles on the ongoing energy transition.

We invite manuscripts on following (not limited) topics:

- Local, virtual and hybrid energy communities

- Positive energy districts and neighborhoods

- Energy communities as commons

- Opportunities for and challenges to energy communities

- Enabling technologies and digitalization

- Techno-economic and socio-institutional assessments of energy communities

- (Self-) governance, ownership, business models, cost-benefit allocations

- Polycentricity, meta-governance, and policy-mix approach for energy communities

- Design of local energy markets

- Demand response and flexibility in energy communities

- Intrinsic motivations and drivers for energy communities

- Energy system integration and role of multi-energy carriers (electricity, hydrogen, heat)

- Socio-technical innovations and alignments

- Citizens and community engagement

- Regulation and legal frameworks for energy communities

- Changing roles and responsibilities

- Multi-actor perspectives on energy communities

- Energy communities and local/regional energy transition

- Energy Citizenship

- Digital twins of energy communities

Keywords: Community energy, community engagement, renewable energy, energy transition, peer-peer energy exchange, business models, institutional design, energy citizenship, (self-) governance, socio-technical innovation

Guest editors:

Binod Koirala

David Parra

Thomas Bauwens

Hello everyone, so I'm trying to create a least cost-benefit map and factors for least cost-benefit are very varied like slope, elevations, region vegetations and etc. I must say I'm very confused between these varied factors and I just want to make sure that I choose the correct and suitable factor in my map. although I want to create several maps of least cost-benefit but i want to ask you: what is the best factor for least cost-benefit for reaching a site to another in a region like southeast Iran?

if you are unfamiliar with the region and topography of southeast Iran, I must say that it's just like the most regions in Baluchistan of Pakistan with low hills in east of the region and high mountains in west. the vegetations of regions is also similar.

so if anyone could help me, i will be so grateful. thank you.

Urgent>> I am a master student doing a study about privacy behavior on Facebook.. my research model consists of two independent variables (cost and benefit), each independent variables consists of six items.. in addition to two dependent variables each of three items.. all measurement models are reflective.. the number of samples is 120.. all answers are within the range (1 to 5) or (strongly disagree to strongly agree).. I use the pls algorithm in smartpls software to analyse my model.. the problem is most of the outer loadings are below (o.7).. one variable has Cronbach's alpha below (0.7) while three varibles have AVE below (0.5). I try to delete the items with the least loadings but there is no recognized effect on the Cronbach's alpha and the AVE.. kindly I need to know how to fix this problem ??

Dear All.

I trying to build a model and conduct cost effectiveness analysis of diagnostic test. I have sensitivity data of different diagnostic test like ultrasonography, MRI, Tomosynthesis. What is the most appropriate way to calculate probabilities from sensitivity data.

Thanks

I am looking for studies on costs and benefits of salvage logged forests (preferrably after windthrow /-break) to compare with the effort of salvage logging with different intensities in a recent windthrow.

Thanks!

I want to submit a paper exploring a cost-effectiveness analysis for a novel technology. The model we developed is currently being published as a subsection in a paper (with all details in the supplementary) with the manuscript's primary aim focused on the clinical aspects of the technology and there are many aspects of the cost-effectiveness analysis which are not included in that paper.

I am looking for advise on the best way I can reference the model structure to the initial paper and develop a manuscript which can aptly explain the scope and type of findings such an evaluation can report, specially when the initial paper in itself is under review and not published. Also, I feel that a health economics related journal would be better able to review and validate the model structure and methods as the model methods is an addition on the existing methodology being used and would be of interest for the readers of health economics and HTA focussed journals.

I look forward to some guidance on this matter, thank you so much in advance!

I am working on a cost-benefit project that aims to identify costs and benefits of FAD(fish aggregating device) beaching vs management actions to prevent/retrieve beached FADs. Any ideas how I could assign monetary value for habitat loss? Thanks!

Benefit:cost ratio, Net production value etc are common expressions to show the economics in agronomical experiments. I would like to know the modern and internationally acceptable expressions of economics in agronomical experiments. Plz

I am comparing the existing methods of government support for creative industries. Could you tell me, in your view, what methods of quantitative analysis are reasonable to use to estimate the effectiveness of government support measures for the development of creative industries planned for implementation? Is it appropriate to use cost-effectiveness analysis method for this purpose? Is it possible to use any other methods and what kind of literature would you recommend for study practical examples of their use?

Health Economics, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Uncertainty analysis and Oncology modelling

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if someone knows about a company that sequences ChIP-ed DNA at an accesible price. I just had a look at some of them but sometimes the service costs a fortune even when customers state that the service was awfull.

If you've performed ChIP-Seq before, where did you sequence your DNA samples and how was the cost-benefit ratio?

Thanks in advance!! :D

- Carbon Capture,

- Biodiversity,

- Soil Erosion,

Advantages and constraints of the 2 options?

When we only know about its current price in the market, life span & not knowing its original cost and salvage value.

Self regulation can reduce operation as cost ?

how we calculate incremental cost benefit ratio (ICBR)