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Race to the Top: evaluation of a novel performance-based financing initiative to promote healthcare delivery in rural Rwanda [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2016
Background: Performance-based financing (PBF) has demonstrated a range of successes and failures in improving health outcomes across low- and middle-income countries.
Evrard Nahimana   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Race to the top in traffic calming [PDF]

open access: yesPapers in Regional Science, 2017
We study the competition of two suburbs facing transit traffic flows. The suburbs are substitutes for transit traffic.
Proost, Stef, Westin, Jonas
core   +4 more sources

Project FURTHER: A Physiological, Biomechanical, and Psychosocial Profile of an All-Female 6-Day Ultramarathon Race [PDF]

open access: yesSports Medicine - Open
Background Ultramarathon performance reflects a complex interplay of physiological, biomechanical, and psychosocial factors, yet data from multi-day events remain limited, particularly in females.
Hannah G. Caldwell   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Sprinting to the top: comparing quality of distance variety and specialization between swimmers and runners [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living
ObjectivesTo compare performance progression and variety in race distances of comparable lengths (timewise) between pool swimming and track running. Quality of within-sport variety was determined as the performance differences between individual athletes'
Dennis-Peter Born   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Sex difference in top performers from Ironman to double deca iron ultra-triathlon

open access: yesOpen Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014
Beat Knechtle,1 Matthias A Zingg,2 Thomas Rosemann,2 Christoph A Rüst21Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland; 2Institute of General Practice and Health Services Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandAbstract: This study ...
Knechtle B   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Race-to-the-Top Strategy Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yesAIB Insights, 2017
Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi, questions the widely accepted paradigm which suggests that emerging countries ought to integrate themselves into global value chains primarily through activities focused on cost reduction, exploitation of natural resources, and low-value added services.
Mark D Partridge   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks using a matrix element method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks is presented. Events with hadronic jets and one or two oppositely charged leptons are selected from a data sample corresponding to an ...
V. Khachatryan   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Legal Consequences of Mandating High Stakes Decisions Based on Low Quality Information: Teacher Evaluation in the Race-to-the-Top Era

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
In this article, we explain how overly prescriptive, rigid state statutory and regulatory policy frameworks regarding teacher evaluation, tenure and employment decisions outstrip the statistical reliability and validity of proposed measures of teaching ...
Bruce D. Baker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of sailing variables and performance of laser sailors with different rankings under the condition of certain wind speed

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Objective: The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of sailing variables and differences between different ranking sailors under the condition of certain wind speed, and predict the variables that affect performance.
Dandan Pan, Kaiyang Sun
doaj   +1 more source

Sample average treatment effect on the treated analysis using counterfactual explanation identifies BMT and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination as protective risk factors associated with COVID-19 severity and survival in patients with multiple myeloma

open access: yesmedRxiv, 2022
Patients with multiple myeloma (MM), an age-dependent neoplasm of antibody-producing plasma cells, have compromised immune systems and might be at increased risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. This study characterizes risk factors associated with clinical
A. Mitra   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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