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Off-Farm Employment, Outsourced Machinery Services, and Farmers’ Ratoon Rice Production Behavior: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Central China

Agriculture, 2023
Promoting ratoon rice is a critical measure for ensuring food security in China. Understanding the mechanism underlying farmers’ decision-making involving ratoon rice production may contribute to the design and implementation of extension policies.
Xue Shen, Quanyu Yang, Ting Qiu, Rongjun Ao   +3 more
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A Security-Enhanced Query Result Verification Scheme for Outsourced Data in Location-Based Services

Applied Sciences, 2022
Location-based services (LBSs) facilitate people’s lives; location-based service providers (LBSPs) usually outsource services to third parties to provide better services.
Guangcan Yang, Jiayang Li, Yunhua He, Ke Xiao, Yang Xin, Hongliang Zhu, Chen Li   +6 more
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Identification of the Factors Affecting Decision-making, Challenges and Obstacles, and Evaluation Criteria of Hospital Services Outsourcing: A Scoping Review [PDF]

Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2023
Outsourcing of the services, as one of the key interventions, has been always given a particular attention by policymakers seeking to improve the performance and reform the financial system of the health sector.
Fatemeh Faghieh, Shirin Shirzad, Mahdi Amraei, Farzad Faraji Khiavi   +3 more
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Shorter delay to treatment by integrated diagnostic services and NGO- provided support among breast cancer patients in two Brazilian referral centres

Journal of Public Health Research, 2021
Background: The diagnosis of breast cancer requires a complicated series of diagnostic exams. The present study addressed the delay of patients who used publicly and privately financed diagnostic services.
Lorena Sofia dos Santos Andrade, Tácila Thamires de Melo Santos, Milena Edite Case de Oliveira, Kedma Anne Lima Gomes, Adriana Raquel Araújo Pereira Soares, Tiago Almeida de Oliveira, Mathias Weller   +6 more
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Measuring and Comparing Service Delivery Time in Government and Outsourced Health Posts Affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences [PDF]

Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics, 2023
Background: The duration of healthcare services has a significant impact on the quality of care and patient's satisfaction. Having information on service delivery time in both government and outsourced Health Posts (HPs) can contribute to evidence-based ...
Seyed Hadi Hosseini, Mitra Rahimzadeh, Ali Hosseini, Arash Shirdel, Seyedeh Sedreh Hosseini, Mohammad Amerzadeh   +5 more
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Impacts of Hospitals' Innovativeness on Information System Outsourcing Decisions [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2014
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to identify the effects of hospitals' innovativeness on outsourcing decision-making regarding four information system (IS) functions, namely, software programs, network maintenance, hardware systems, and PC/printer
Jae Sung Park
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The Flipside of New Public Management: An Inquiry into the Challenges Facing Outsourced Workers in South Africa

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2021
Inspired by the new public management (NPM) philosophy, public sector institutions have engaged private companies by outsourcing non-core services for improved service delivery, lowering government expenditure, and creating opportunities for employment ...
Zamazulu Mthembu, Oladimeji Ashade, Sybert Mutereko   +2 more
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Outsourcing in health facilities: Challenges in medical university of Isfahan in focus

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020
Introduction: Outsourcing is one of the major strategies for keeping competitive gain in today's highly varying markets, especially in health systems. This study endeavored to identify operational challenges of outsourcing health facilities affiliated to
Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh, Pejman Aghdak, Morteza Sahebi   +2 more
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Tariff structuring in water and sanitation: public profiting arrangements on universalization initiatives

Water Policy, 2021
Water and sanitation service access is a global problem, impacting disproportionally poor communities of low-income countries. Failed universalization initiatives highlighted historical negligence, social inequality, and bad governance.
Marcelo Motta-Veiga
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A2THOS: Availability Analysis and Optimisation in SLAs [PDF]

, 2010
IT service availability is at the core of customer satisfaction and business success for today’s organisations. Many medium-large size organisations outsource part of their IT services to external providers, with Service Level Agreements describing the ...
Etalle, Sandro, Wieringa, Roel J., Zambon, Emmanuele   +2 more
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