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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
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Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California [PDF]
Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and 1996.
John Fahr, Janet Currie
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, 2022 The institutional food services industry is one of the most important sectors in Malaysia. In conjunction with institutional food services industry roles that provide services either in the government or public institutional operations, this industry has
Hazrina Ghazali +3 more
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Acta OrthopaedicaBackground and purpose: This study aims to assess time trends in case-mix and to evaluate the risk of revision and causes following primary THA, TKA, and UKA in private and public hospitals in the Netherlands.
Bart-Jan van Dooren +7 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.The characteristics of patients with anal fistula cancer included a higher proportion of men, younger age, more smokers, and tumor‐related characteristics, including more advanced local progression. Surgical characteristics included a lower rate of minimally invasive surgery, a higher proportion of total pelvic exenterations, and longer postoperative ...
Nobuaki Hoshino +5 more
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Technological and Efficiency Change of Private Hospitals in Tanzania: Does the Size Matter? [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and EconomicsThis study measures productivity of private hospitals in Tanzania based on the hospitals size. Specifically, the study aims at evaluating technological change and efficiency change based on hospitals’ size.
Kembo Bwana
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci +4 more
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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis [PDF]
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier ...
Annika Frohloff
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal +6 more
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Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize? [PDF]
Cross-subsidies are often considered the principal mechanism through which hospitals provide unprofitable care. Yet, hospitals’ reliance on and extent of cross-subsidization are difficult to establish.
Guy David +3 more
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