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Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial health of commercial insurance companies in the Czech Republic

Research Papers in Economics and Finance
This article focuses on assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the insurance operations of commercial insurance companies in the Czech Republic.
Lenka Přečková, Eva Vávrová
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Osseoperceptive EMG Feedback Improves Grasp Force Control in Myoelectric Prosthetic Hands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Osseoperception is explored as a non‐invasive pathway for delivering sensory feedback in myoelectric prosthetic control. By encoding the user's electromyographic (EMG) signal through bone‐conducted stimulation, this approach enables predictive grasp force regulation.
Cristian Felipe Blanco‐Diaz, Strahinja Dosen, Leonardo Cappello   +2 more
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Health insurance coverage and impact: a survey in three cities in China.

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundChina has one of the world's largest health insurance systems, composed of government-run basic health insurance and commercial health insurance. The basic health insurance has undergone system-wide reform in recent years.
Kuangnan Fang, BenChang Shia, Shuangge Ma   +2 more
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Assessment of demand for and utilization of dental services by insurance coverage in a developing oral health care system

Journal of Dental School, 2019
Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between demand for and utilization of dental services by insurance coverage among adults in Iran. Methods A cross-sectional survey based on telephone interviews was done.
Fariborz Bayat, Alireza Akbarzadeh, Farshid Monajemi   +2 more
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A Large Scale Multi‐Modal Workflow for Battery Characterization: From Concept to Implementation

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Isolated characterization techniques produce independent datasets and single‐property insights. However, progressively more holistic interpretations of battery‐material behavior is needed in the future. Here we demonstrate a coordinated multimodal workflow enabling the correlation of heterogeneous datasets and the construction of multidimensional ...
François Cadiou, Cinthya Herrera, Duncan Atkins, Elixabete Ayerbe, Giorgio Baraldi, Stéphanie Belin, Anass Benayad, Didier Blanchard, Federico Capone, Ennio Capria, Isidora Cekic‐Laskovic, Robert Dominko, Kristina Edström, Ajay Gautam, Lukas Helfen, Antonella Iadecola, Quentin Jacquet, Gregor Kapun, Xinyu Li, Aleksandar Matic, Nataliia Mozhzhukhina, Andrew J. Naylor, Poul Norby, Chris O'Keefe, Alexandre Ponrouch, Jean‐Pascal Rueff, Elena Tchernykova, Deyana Tchitchekova, Israel Temprano, Nikita Vostrov, Marnix Wagemaker, Martin Winter, Christian Wölke, Tejs Vegge, Sandrine Lyonnard   +34 more
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Urban health insurance reform and coverage in China using data from National Health Services Surveys in 1998 and 2003

BMC Health Services Research, 2007
Background In 1997 there was a major reform of the government run urban health insurance system in China. The principal aims of the reform were to widen coverage of health insurance for the urban employed and contain medical costs.
Collins Charles D, Wang Yan, Xu Ling, Tang Shenglan   +3 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele, Vigani Mauro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Hospital Bypass by Patients With Commercial Health Insurance

JAMA Network Open
This cross-sectional study examines rural hospital bypass among commercially insured patients, including variation in bypass by rurality and clinical condition, and hospital payments generated by patients who bypassed their nearest hospitals.
Chang, Jessica Y., Carroll, Caitlin E.
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