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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to ...
Martin Gaynor +2 more
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Cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study of societal impact
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background The prevalence of atrial fibrillation is increasing rapidly; however, to date, population-based data are lacking on the attributable cost of illness of atrial fibrillation from a societal perspective, including both direct and indirect costs ...
Søren Paaske Johnsen +4 more
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Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2021 In this paper we envision a federated learning (FL) scenario in service of amending the performance of autonomous road vehicles, through a drone traffic monitor (DTM), that also acts as an orchestrator.
Igor Donevski +2 more
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Leadership and Incentives [PDF]
Management Science, 2016 We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, and the three other treatments allowed participants to volunteer to be the leader in their group and make their contribution before ...
Cappelen, Alexander W. +3 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 2009 We study a model where a decision maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same underlying preferences as the DM; they differ, however, in their prior beliefs about the state, which we interpret as differences of opinion. We derive a tradeoff faced by the
Che, Yeon-Koo, Kartik, Navin
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background The increasing number of people with chronic diseases challenges workforce capacity. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) can have work-related consequences, such as early retirement.
M. A. Nexo +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The number of people of working age suffering from chronic disease is increasing. Chronic diseases such as diabetes can cause negative work-related consequences in the form of early retirement or absenteeism.
Kristoffer Panduro Madsen +4 more
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PATERNALISM IN CONSUMER LAW [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2021 When carried out by the state, paternalism was often decried as coercive, questioning in itself the liberty of the individual and always alluding to the latter’s presumed incapacity to decide and to choose.
Andreea-Mădălina STĂNESCU-SAS
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Q-LVS: A Q-Learning-based Algorithm for Video Streaming in Peer-to-Peer Networks Considering a Token-Based Incentive Mechanism [PDF]
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, 2022 Peer-to-peer video streaming has reached great attention during recent years. Video streaming in peer-to-peer networks is a good way to stream video on the Internet due to the high scalability, high video quality, and low bandwidth requirements.
Z. Imanimehr
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 Rain gardens are gardens with a specific purpose. Designed as a shallow depression that captures stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, rain gardens are planted with deep-rooted, wet/dry-cycle tolerant plants that enable the water to slowly permeate
Linda B. Jahnke, Michael R. Barnes
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