over the past two decades, shanghai, the largest megacity in china, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. we study the evolution of shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “avoidable mortality” (am) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...

In this paper we study the relation between module amenability of $theta$-Lau product $A×_theta B$ and that of Banach algebras $A, B$. We also discuss module biprojectivity of $A×theta B$. As a consequent we will see that for an inverse semigroup $S$, $l^1(S)×_theta l^1(S)$ is module amenable if and only if $S$ is amenable.

Let G be a locally compact group, and let 1 < p < ∞. In this paper we investigate the injectivity of the left L1(G)-module Lp(G). We define a family of amenability type conditions called (p, q)-amenability, for any 1 ≤ p ≤ q. For a general locally compact group G we show if Lp(G) is injective, then G must be (p, p)-amenable. For a discrete group G we prove that l p(G) is injective if and only i...

Let G be a locally compact group. Then G is known to be amenable if and only if it has Reiter’s property (P1), i.e., there is a net (mα)α of non-negative norm one functions in L(G) such that limα supx∈K ‖Lx−1mα−mα‖ = 0 for each compact subset K ⊂ G (Lx−1mα stands for the left translate of mα by x). We give a formulation of property (P1) that extends naturally to locally compact quantum groups i...

For a countable amenable group Γ and an element f in the integral group ring ZΓ being invertible in the group von Neumann algebra of Γ, we show that the entropy of the shift action of Γ on the Pontryagin dual of the quotient of ZΓ by its left ideal generated by f is the logarithm of the Fuglede-Kadison determinant of f . For the proof, we establish an `-version of Rufus Bowen’s definition of to...