Today, companies face the challenge to effectively and efficiently perform their business processes as well as to guarantee their continuous operation. To meet the economic requirements, companies often consult business process management experts. The robustness and continuity of operations is separately considered in other domains such as business continuity management and risk management. The...

one of the debates concerning concepts of “medial motion” and “traversal motion” is the question of which of these two concepts of motion corresponds to motion in the corporeal world. in the present article we intend to employ the language of mathematics to present a model for each of these two concepts to study the above mentioned problem. as a result, medial motion represents a covering funct...

In this study we reconsider the effect of variable transformations on the redistribution of income. Under the assumption that the theorems should hold for all income distributions, earlier given conditions are both necessary and sufficient. Different versions of the conditions are compared. We also consider the consequences if we drop the explicit continuity restriction on the transformations. ...

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of pure strategy Nash equilibria by replacing the assumptions concerning continuity and quasiconcavity with a unique condition, passing strategy space from topological vector spaces to arbitrary topological spaces. Preferences may also be nontotal/nontransitive, discontinuous, nonconvex, or nonmonotonic. We define a singl...

If we regard a multi-valued mapping as a generalization of a single-valued mapping, we may ask for generalizations of important properties as well, concerning fixed-points, projection, composition etc. The main interest in this paper are continuity notions for multi-valued mappings which allow non-connected images, but still have a certain fixed-point property. The starting point is a continuit...

If we regard a multi-valued mapping as a generalization of a singlevalued mapping, we may ask for generalizations of important properties as well, concerning zeros, fixed points, projection, composition etc. The main interest in this paper are continuity notions for multi-valued mappings which allow disconnected images, but still have a certain zero property. The starting point is a continuity ...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care is one of the cornerstones of primary care. Initially, the concept of continuity largely corresponded to one care provider and continuity between doctor and patient, but today, healthcare processes and organisations have grown and become more complex. A survey of patients with complex care needs found that in all of 11 countries studied care was often poorly coordi...

Fragmented services are a well-known problem in the mental health sector. Mental health service users' experiences of treatment and care can provide knowledge for developing more user-oriented continuity of care. We followed nine young adults with mental health illnesses and complex needs, conducting four interviews with each informant in the course of a year. The aim was to capture their exper...