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Payment and economic evaluation of integrated care
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015 Chronic diseases have an increasingly negative impact on (1) population health by increasing morbidity and mortality, (2) society by increasing health inequalities and burden to informal caregivers, and (3) economy by requiring enormous financial ...
Apostolos Tsiachristas
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Relevant factors for the suspension of the payment of disputed tax - A comparative analysis
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2016 Section 164(3) of the Tax Administration Act No. 28 of 2011 gives a senior SARS official the discretion to suspend the payment of disputed tax or a portion thereof, having regard to relevant factors. Limited guidance is available in this regard.
Linda van Zyl, Danielle van Wyk
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Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020 Mandatory vaccination, including for COVID-19, can be ethically justified if the threat to public health is grave, the confidence in safety and effectiveness is high, the expected utility of mandatory vaccination is greater than the alternatives, and the
J. Savulescu
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Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks [PDF]
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2017 Permissionless blockchains protocols such as Bitcoin are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Current efforts to address this key issue focus on off-chain payment channels that can be combined in a Payment-Channel Network (PCN) to ...
Giulio Malavolta +4 more
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Bioethics, 2011 ABSTRACTWhat I call ‘the standard view’ claims that IRBs should not regard financial payment as a benefit to subjects for the purpose of risk/benefit assessment. Although the standard view is universally accepted, there is little defense of that view in the canonical documents of research ethics or the scholarly literature.
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Optimal Dividend Payments for the Piecewise-Deterministic Poisson Risk Model
, 2014 This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study in this general
Chao Zhu +7 more
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An integrated framework for the adoption and continuance intention to use mobile payment apps
International Journal of Bank Marketing, 2019 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test an integrated model of the modified technology readiness index (TRI) with the extended expectation-confirmation model, in the context of information technology (E-ECM-IT) to explain the adoption ...
Michael Humbani, M. Wiese
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Dual targeting of RET and SRC synergizes in RET fusion‐positive cancer cells
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Despite the strong activity of selective RET tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), resistance of RET fusion‐positive (RET+) lung cancer and thyroid cancer frequently occurs and is mainly driven by RET‐independent bypass mechanisms. Son et al. show that SRC TKIs significantly inhibit PAK and AKT survival signaling and enhance the efficacy of RET TKIs in ...
Juhyeon Son +13 more
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Perun: Virtual Payment Hubs over Cryptocurrencies
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019 Payment channels emerged recently as an efficient method for performing cheap micropayments in cryptocurrencies. In contrast to traditional on-chain transactions, payment channels have the advantage that they allow for nearly unlimited number of ...
Stefan Dziembowski +3 more
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Production of antibacterial compounds by a Steely hybrid polyketide synthase in Dictyostelium
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.By selecting appropriate production species under optimised culture conditions, new chlorinated dibenzofuran compounds, which previously could not be analysed in sufficient quantities, were identified from cellular slime mould fruiting bodies. The strong antibacterial activity exhibited by these compounds suggests a link to the ecological function of ...
Tomoaki R. Yamashita +3 more
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