BACKGROUND The system and delivery of health care tend to suffer from fragmentation, resulting in discontinuous and costly care. Local cooperation between caregivers is essential to achieve appropriate, timely, continuous and efficient care. The article develops a general comprehensive patient-centered model of quality of care related to local cooperation between caregivers. The model can be us...

This paper presents a novel approach to organization automation issues based on structured multi-agent systems called Multi-Agent Organizations (MAO). The main goal is to provide human organizations with a distributed information system which supports human’s decision taking all over the organization as well as facilitates the coordination and cooperation along the processes workgroups and indi...

expanding commerce, globalization of products and services, and companies being internationalized unceasingly has added the importance of international business relationships. considering the complex marketing under the continuous variations, accessing wing-footed trade information is a key success in international marketplace; and market orientation as an integrated view by determining the org...

Cooperation between cadherins and actin critically influences tissue organization. A new report identifies distinct pools of actin filaments that influence the spatial distribution of cadherins at cell-cell contacts.

Cooperative breeders serve as a model to study the evolution of cooperation, where costs and benefits of helping are typically scrutinized at the level of group membership. However, cooperation is often observed in multi-level social organizations involving interactions among individuals at various levels. Here, we argue that a full understanding of the adaptive value of cooperation and the evo...

PROTECTION ACTIVPTIESOFTFIE ORGANIZATION Primo Ararnbulo, III and Claudio R. Almeida Pan American Health Organization 525 23rd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-2895 The food protection activities of PAHO/WHO conducted within the framework of the Regional Plan of Action for Technical Cooperation in Food Protection mandated by the Pan American Sanitary Conference and the Ministers of Agriculture a...

background improving efficiency of health sector is of particular importance in all countries. to reach this end, it is paramount to measure the efficiency. on the other hand, there are many factors that affect the efficiency of health systems. this study aimed to measure the technical efficiency (te) of health systems in economic cooperation organization (eco) countries during 2004–10 and to d...

Throughout their life, humans often engage in public goods games in situations ranging from family related issues to global warming. In all cases, the tragedy of the commons threatens the possibility of reaching the optimal solution associated with global cooperation. Up to now, individuals have been treated as equivalent in all respects, in sharp contrast with real life situations, where diver...

Architectures consisting of multiple cache servers are a popular solution to deal with performance and network resource utilization issues related to the growth of the Web request. Cache cooperation is often carried out through purely hierarchical and flat schemes that suffer from scalability problems when the number of servers increases. We propose, implement and compare the performance of thr...