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Cost-minimizing risk adjustment
Journal of Health Economics, 2002Conventional risk adjustment, which sets capitation payments equal to the average cost of individuals with similar observable characteristics, is not optimal if health plans can use private information to select low-cost enrollees. "Cost-minimizing risk adjustment" minimizes the sum of capitated HMO premiums plus FFS costs by balancing the gains from ...
Yujing, Shen, Randall P, Ellis
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Cost minimizing water main quality index: A static cost minimization approach
Water Resources and Economics, 2016Our paper focuses on the issue of obsolete water mains which is the main cause of water loss in developed countries. We determine the cost-efficient water mains quality index according to different parameters such as the cost of water supply, the demand for water and the cost of good quality water mains.
Cousin, Elissa, Taugourdeau, Emmanuelle
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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2012
Given a directed graph G, a reachability query (u, v) asks whether there exists a path from a node u to a node v in G. The existing studies support reachability queries using indexing techniques, where both the graph and the index are required to reside in main memory.
Zhiwei Zhang +4 more
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Given a directed graph G, a reachability query (u, v) asks whether there exists a path from a node u to a node v in G. The existing studies support reachability queries using indexing techniques, where both the graph and the index are required to reside in main memory.
Zhiwei Zhang +4 more
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Cost-minimizing welfare programs
Journal of Public Economics, 1986Abstract We study opportunities for lowering the cost of welfare programs by exploiting heterogeneity in the unobservable tastes of welfare recipients. Relying on the inability of cash-based programs to achieve self-selection, we provide circumstances in which it is optimal to provide payments-in- kind.
Ronald A. Dye, Rick Antle
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Exergy-aided cost minimization
Energy Conversion and Management, 1997This paper shows how exergy-related variables can be used to minimize the cost of a thermal system. These variables include the exergetic efficiency, the rates of exergy destruction and exergy loss, an exergy destruction ratio, the cost rates associated with exergy destruction, capital investment and operating and maintenance, a relative cost ...
George Tsatsaronis, Michael J. Moran
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
In order to be effective teachers, we need to motivate our students, which means we need to know how they respond to incentives. Are they output-maximizers and early success encourages them to work harder for the greater reward? Or are they cost-minimizers and early success tells them they can put in less effort and still succeed?
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In order to be effective teachers, we need to motivate our students, which means we need to know how they respond to incentives. Are they output-maximizers and early success encourages them to work harder for the greater reward? Or are they cost-minimizers and early success tells them they can put in less effort and still succeed?
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Cost minimization of ribosomal frameshifts
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007Properties of mRNA leading regions that modulate protein synthesis are little known (besides effects of their secondary structure). Here I explore how coding properties of leading regions may account for their disparate efficiencies. Trinucleotides that form off frame stop codons decrease costs of ribosomal slippages during protein synthesis: protein ...
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IEEE Systems Journal, 2015
There are different choices for auction and settlement mechanisms in electricity markets; however, selecting the appropriate mechanisms is too hard. Traditionally, the offer cost minimization (OCM) mechanism that minimizes the total offer cost is used as the clearing mechanism, and payments are calculated based on locational marginal prices (LMPs ...
Alireza Nouri, Seyed Hamid Hosseini
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There are different choices for auction and settlement mechanisms in electricity markets; however, selecting the appropriate mechanisms is too hard. Traditionally, the offer cost minimization (OCM) mechanism that minimizes the total offer cost is used as the clearing mechanism, and payments are calculated based on locational marginal prices (LMPs ...
Alireza Nouri, Seyed Hamid Hosseini
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Lifetime Corrosion Control Cost Minimization
Coatings+ 2020, 2020Abstract Most capital projects in the energy market face significant cost overrun issues. There is a real need for innovation to improve productivity; reduce the need for completion on site and to minimise the annual operations maintenance budget.
Douglas Mittlesteadt, David Morton
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