This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic...

Conversions raise two critical policy questions: First, does ownership form (nonprofit or for-profit) make any difference to delivery of health care? Second, when conversions occur, how are charitable assets and purpose preserved? This paper addresses both questions, based on a review of evidence and experience. On the first question we conclude that, overall, nonprofit ownership enhances the p...

SUMMARY In recent years, there has been a considerable expansion of deployments portable seismic stations across Australia, which have analysed by receiver function or autocorrelation methods to extract estimates Moho depth. An ongoing program full-crustal reflection profiles now provided more than 25 000 km transects that interpreted for structure. The data set is further augmented extensive m...

BACKGROUND African hospitals have experienced major increases in admissions for tuberculosis, but they are ill-equipped to prevent institutional transmission. We compared institutional rates and community rates of tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion in Harare, Zimbabwe. METHODS We conducted a cohort study of TST conversion 6, 12, and 18 months into training among 159 nursing and 195 polytec...

Predicting the impact of land cover and climate change on hydrologic responses using modeling tools are essential in understanding the movement and pattern of hydrologic processes within the watershed. The paper provided potential implications of land conversions and climate change scenarios on the hydrologic processes of Muleta watershed using soil and water assessment tool model. Model inputs...

We have recently been studying the case where have a training set T generated from an underlying distribution and our goal is to find some good hypothesis, with respect to the true underlying distribution, using the training set T . We now examine how to use online learning algorithms (which work on individual, arbitrary sequences) in a stochastic setting. Let us consider the training set T as ...

Using program transformation techniques from the field of partial evaluation an automatic tool for generating very efficient conversions from equality-stating theorems has been implemented. In the situation where a Hol user would normally employ the built-in function GEN_REWRITE_CONV, a function that directly produces a conversion of the desired functionality, this article demonstrates how prod...

Many online services access a large number of autonomous data sources and at the same time need to meet different user requirements. It is essential for these services to achieve semantic interoperability among these information exchange entities. In the presence of an increasing number of proprietary business processes, heterogeneous data standards, and diverse user requirements, it is critica...