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Multiple realization pathways of county-level medical alliances to improve service capacity:A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis

Chinese General Practice Journal
Background: The long-standing dilemma of difficulties in the improvement of primary care in China has led to county-level medical alliances reforms in various regions throughout the country.
Yue XU, Linlin HU, Yuanli LIU
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Evaluation of Three New Strategies to Fight Obesity in Families

Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2010
Aims. To evaluate 3 strategies to reduce weight in obese families. Research design and methods. 142 obese parents and 119 obese children kept a fat-calorie restriction diet. On top of this diet, the families were randomized in a three-factorial design to
C. Luley, A. Blaik, S. Aronica, J. Dierkes, S. Kropf, S. Westphal   +5 more
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Comparison of respiratory muscle activities and cardiovascular function during different breathing types in healthy adults: Costal breathing, flow incentive spirometry, and volume incentive spirometry.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundVarious breathing exercises are used to enhance lung function. However, many patients have reported experiencing breathlessness and an increased work of breathing during their use, but evidence supporting this is limited.
Preeyaphorn Songsorn, Kanyapit Chummee, Chutima Yaanan, Anurak Banlueharn, Kornanong Yuenyongchaiwat, Chalearmpong Pinupong, Sasipa Buranapuntalug   +6 more
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The Bumpy Road from Paris to Brussels: The European Commission Governance Incentive Tranche [PDF]

The EC recently launched a new aid instrument for the ACP-community: the “governance incentive tranche”, a modality designed to incentivise ACP-governments to carry out governance reforms. In this paper we analyse whether this new initiative incorporates
Molenaers, Nadia, Nijs, Leen
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Moral Hazard, Incentive Contracts and Risk: Evidence from Procurement [PDF]

Deadlines and penalties are widely used to incentivize effort. We model how these incentive contracts affect the work rate and time taken in a procurement setting, characterizing the efficient contract design.
Gregory Lewis, Patrick Bajari
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Incentive contract design considering quotas production: A principal-agent perspective

Heliyon
The quality of primary products in a supply chain is determined by the agent and the principal. Simultaneously, there are quota production constraints on the principals.
Sen Liu, Lei Wang, Xuejiang Shi, Shibo Ouyang, Lifan Yang   +4 more
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Rewarding Carrots & Crippling Sticks: Eliciting Employee Preferences for the Optimal Incentive Mix in Europe [PDF]

A ranking of a variety of incentive devices used by firms according to their perceived effectiveness by employees is identified. The determinants of employee incentive preferences are also investigated, suggesting a ‘menu’ of conditions under which an ...
Pouliakas, Konstantinos, Theodossiou, Ioannis   +1 more
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An optimal Voting System when Voting is costly [PDF]

We consider the design of an optimal voting system when voting is costly. For a private values model with two alternatives we show the optimality of a voting system that combines three elements: (i) there is an arbitrarily chosen default decision and non-
Bognar, Katalin, Börgers, Tilman, Meyer-ter-Vehn, Moritz   +2 more
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Environmental Mechanism Designs in a New Order of Regulatory Capitalism [PDF]

Complexity of environmental programs is most apparent with information asymmetries, making the design of efficient mechanisms particularly challenging.
Centner, Terence J., Mullen, Jeffrey D., Wetzstein, Michael E.   +2 more
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Optimal Incentive Mechanism: Balancing the Complex Risk Preferences of Shared Battery Swapping Station Enterprises Under Dual Asymmetric Information

World Electric Vehicle Journal
This study investigates how the government can design optimal incentive mechanisms for Shared Battery Swapping Station (SBSS) construction enterprises under the conditions of dual information asymmetry (effort and operational efficiency) and ...
Lei He, Yanfei Lan, Mingmao Hu, Aihong Gong   +3 more
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