An environment is a set of name-value bindings, maintained for a particular user, tha t are provided to a process at runtime. This can provide a great deal of flexibility in tai loring the behavior of programs to a particular user's preferences. It can also serve as a simple me ans of interprocess communication. To be useful, however, the environment must take into ac count the natural structur...

This working paper presents information and analyses of health care inequity in South Africa, with specific reference to what health economists term the publicprivate mix in health care. The paper identifies the apartheid legacy of disadvantage in terms of health status and inequitable access to health care, and outlines health policy initiatives since 1994.It draws together household survey da...

Hybrid cloud storage infrastructure, which combines cost-effective but inflexible private resources and flexible but premium-priced public cloud storage, allows organizations to operate cost-efficiently under demand volume uncertainty. The extant literature, however, offers a limited analytical insight into the effect that the variation of demand has on the cost-efficient mix of internal and ex...

Governmental agencies have various service channels at their disposal for the service interactions with their citizens. The rise of the Internet as a service channel led many to believe the Internet would make all other service channels obsolete. Until now this expectation remains unfulfilled, as research discussed in this paper makes clear. All other channels still exist and the Internet in ma...

In latest years there has been a growing interest on factors explaining health expenditure at a regional level. Indeed, in the case of Italy, even though the health care system was initially designed as a centralized one, the government has progressively undertaken a decentralization process up to the point of modifying the Constitution in order to appoint regions with exclusive health care res...

Congress is considering proposals to improve its financing of long-term care. The key issue is whether it should support a social insurance program or a program targeted to a population group defined by income and assets. Social insurance is expensive, costing between $15 and $20 billion. For the most part, it provides benefits--primarily asset protection--to middle- and upper-income individual...

The investigation was executed with nine treatments viz. nano forms of ferrous sulfide (7, 14, 21, 28 ppm) and macro sulphate (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 per cent) along control, were applied as foliar sprays after 30 days transplanting on two varieties calendula namely Fiesta Gitana Mix’ ‘Fiesta Yellow’ during 2018 2019. experiment laid out in factorial randomized block design three replications. Appl...

In datacenter networks, bandwidth-demanding elephant flows without deadline and delay-sensitive mice with strict coexist. They compete each other for limited network resources, the effective scheduling of such mix-flows is extremely challenging. We propose a deep reinforcement learning private link approach (DRL-PLink), which combines software-defined (DRL) to schedule mix-flows. DRL-PLink divi...

Content: The virtual study trip to community mental health in Finland includes several examples about how the local mental health services are organised and which methods are used in the coordination and integration processes of services for people with mental illness (e.g., public services, private services, voluntary organisations and other NGOs of and for people with mental illness, psychoso...