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Economic evaluation of complex multidimensional health services : the case of palliative day care [PDF]
Palliative day care is offered to patients with a life-limiting illness. It provides a range of services to meet the varying needs of individuals. Consequently, the service is multidimensional and the outcomes are hard to define.
Douglas, Hannah-Rose
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This study aimed to develop a proof‐of‐concept prototype of a machine learning system to forecast and mitigate the effect of floods in Kasese District. The researchers used a participatory design science approach. The researchers conducted document reviews and brainstorming to obtain past climate data from the representatives of affected ...
Edward Miiro +4 more
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Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2025.This study introduces the SBVIR model, incorporating breastfeeding and vaccination to predict and control rotavirus transmission. Numerical simulations show a 99% effectiveness compared to traditional models, and the Internet of Things applications in Smart Health Infrastructures significantly enhance disease monitoring and predictive control in ...
Titus Ifeanyi Chinebu +8 more
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Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program [PDF]
In an attempt to increase the placement of medical residents to rural hospitals, the Japanese government recently introduced "regional caps" which restrict the total number of residents matched within each region of the country.
Yuichiro Kamada, Fuhito Kojima
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Commitments to save : a field experiment in rural Malawi [PDF]
This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments, offering either: 1 ...
Yang, Dean +3 more
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Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach [PDF]
We study the effect of different school choice mechanisms on schools' incentives for quality improvement. To do so, we introduce the following criterion: A mechanism respects improvements of school quality if each school becomes weakly better off ...
John William Hatfield +2 more
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Public infrastructure: inquiry report [PDF]
, 2014 There is an urgent need to comprehensively overhaul processes for assessing and developing public infrastructure projects, argues this report. Volume 1 contains the overview, recommendations and findings, chapters 1 to 8 and volume 1 references .
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Economic-Social Interaction in China [PDF]
This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country’s change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important ...
Assar Lindbeck
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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet? [PDF]
With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional ...
Hoffman, Daniel +3 more
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Essays on the Economics of Contracts and Organizations
, 2015 This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of contracts and organizations. The first essay studies organizational design as the allocation of decision rights, primarily focusing on its interplay with agents' career motives. It identifies a new
Hirata, Daisuke
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