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Payment for performance (P4P): any future in Italy?

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background Pay for Performance (P4P) programs, based on provision of financial incentives for service quality, have been widely adopted to enhance quality of care and to promote a more efficient use of health care resources whilst improving patient ...
Bevilacqua Luciana, Bodina Annalisa, Castaldi Silvana, Parravicini Elena, Bertuzzi Michaela, Auxilia Francesco   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thermodynamic Pathways of Nonequilibrium Solidification in Wire‐Arc Additive Manufacturing Fe‐Based Multicomponent Alloy Structures

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Geometry‐driven thermal behavior in wire‐arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) influences microstructural evolution during nonequilibrium solidification of a chemically complex Fe–Cr–Nb–W–Mo–C nanocomposite system. By comparing different deposits configurations, distinct entropy–cooling rate correlations, segregation, and carbide evolution are revealed ...
Blanca Palacios, Anthony Gonzalez, Aleksander Aleman, Tyler Dolmetsch, Tanaji Paul, Arvind Agarwal   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE CALCULATION OF THE REINFORCED CONCRETE WALLS OF THE RECEIVING CHAMBER UNDER CONDITIONS OF DEEP DEPRESSIONS IN THE GROUND

Nauka ta progres transportu, 2010
The article is dealt with the description of the water reception chamber, load capacity calculation of its walls, and purposes of use of the construction.
S. N. Sviridovich, D. V. Zhiharev, A. E. Chereshko   +2 more
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing large value payment systems: An agent-based approach [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to show how agent-based simulations of payment systems can be used to aid central bankers and payment system operators in thinking about the appropriate design of payment settlement systems to minimise risk and increase their
Sheri Markose, Stephen Millard, Amadeo Alentorn, Jing Yang   +3 more
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Decriminalizing Payment of Gamete Donors and Surrogates in Canada

Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2019
On 29 May 2018, the Liberal MP Anthony Housefather tabled Bill C-404 titled An Act to amend the Assisted Human Reproduction Act which seeks to decriminalize the payment of gamete donors and surrogates across Canada.
Anne-Isabelle Cloutier
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Current Status and Challenges in Data Collection for Aerospace Coatings Deposited by Plasma Spraying

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
An innovative approach has been integrated into the GRENAT project to optimize plasma spraying and coating performance. Raw materials are accelerated and melted in the plasma generated by torches, creating coatings. Monitoring sensors collect process data which are combined with ex situ characterization data.
Lila Randriamananjara, Vincent Rat, Quentin Dubreuil, Patrice Valorge, Simon Goutier, Alain Denoirjean, Olivier Messe, Céline Ruelle, Jean‐Philippe Poli   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liquidity requirements and payment delays - participant type dependent preferences [PDF]

The paper presents an analysis of the trade-offs of participants of different type between payment delay and liquidity requirement on the basis of synthetically generated data. The generation of the synthetic transaction data set for a simple RTGS system
Schulz, Christian
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Hydrological Services of Forests and Their Compensation Initiatives

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2013
Rapid decreas of natural forest, and more frequent disaster related to the roles of forest on precipitation, flood, drought, erosion, and sedimentation as well as landslides, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration have driven initiatives to find out ...
Hendrayanto, Sudarsono Soedomo
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Does Political Stability Matter to the Profitability of Banks? [PDF]

Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks
This study examines the impact of net interest margin, non-interest income, non-performing loans, and Political Stability Index on the banks’ profitability regarding return on assets in developing Asian countries, focusing on how political stability ...
Arjun Kumar Dahal, Ganesh Bhattarai, Prem Bahadur Budhathoki   +2 more
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