Private practice--definitely not a zero sum game

Whistle blast on private healthcare's 'zero sum game'.

Stochastic Recursive Zero-Sum Differential Game and Mixed Zero-Sum Differential Game Problem

Under the notable Issacs’s condition on the Hamiltonian, the existence results of a saddle point are obtained for the stochastic recursive zero-sum differential game and mixed differential game problem, that is, the agents can also decide the optimal stopping time. Themain tools are backward stochastic differential equations BSDEs and double-barrier reflected BSDEs. As the motivation and applic...

Aging theories and the zero-sum game.

For generations programmed mammal aging was widely thought to be theoretically impossible. However, new evolutionary mechanics concepts have led to renewed interest in programmed aging resulting in a schism between programmed and non-programmed proponents. This article argues that this lack of consensus is damaging medical research and therefore steps should be taken to pro-actively resolve the...

Multiple attribute decision making with triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers based on zero-sum game approach

For many decision problems with uncertainty, triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number is a useful tool in expressing ill-known quantities. This paper develops a novel decision method based on zero-sum game for multiple attribute decision making problems where the attribute values take the form of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and the attribute weights are unknown. First, a new value ind...

Not a Zero-Sum Game: China’s Internal Migration and the Wellbeing of Rural-origin Children

Two-fifths of the 279 million children in China are directly affected by the on-going massive internal migration. Using data from a nationally representative survey covering junior high school students in both rural and urban areas, we examine the causal impacts of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on rural children’s wellbeing measured by...