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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 +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 +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 +3 more
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Fear of service outsourcing: is it justified? [PDF]
Economic Policy, 2004 The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts.
Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei
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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 +6 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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Service Outsourcing with Process Views [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2015 Service outsourcing is a business paradigm in which an organization has a part of its business process performed by a service provider. Process views are pivotal to support this way of working. A process view shields secret or irrelevant details from a private business process, thus allowing an organization to reveal only public, relevant parts of its ...
Rik Eshuis +3 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 +5 more
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Evaluation of Clinical Laboratory Performance as a Procuring Agency [PDF]
The International Journal of Frontier Sciences, 2019 Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab, Pakistan has outsourced its clinical laboratory services at various secondary level hospitals in the province.
Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar +2 more
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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 +2 more
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