Network and processing overhead associated with web services is a significant challenge to its performance. As a result, web service providers often announce a service level agreement. This ensures that consumers, who pay for the service, can get the service at a given quality level. In this paper, we study the competition between two providers offering functionally the same web services, whe...

OBJECTIVES Community-based health insurance (CBI) is a common mechanism to generate financial resources for health care in developing countries. We review for the first time provider payment methods used in CBI in developing countries and their impact on CBI performance. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of the literature on provider payment methods used by CBI in developing countries ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A commonly cited explanation of how racial discrimination impacts health is the biopsychosocial model. However, the biopsychosocial model does not allow for the effects of perceived provider discrimination on health behavior and utilization. In fact, researchers have directed relatively little attention toward the direct and indirect effects of perceived provider discr...

Environment Provider Orderbook File Orderbook Distribution Abstract Orderbook Provider Pricing FactoryOrderbook Provider Pricing Factory Pricing Outcome CPLEX Adapter Abstract Solver VCG PricingSolver VCG Pricing

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although continuity of care has been found to be associated with improved health outcomes in children, little is known about what factors predict having consistent contact with a pediatric provider. This study explored what patient, family, provider, and system factors are associated with high continuity of both total and well-child care. METHODS This cross-sectional...

The IEEE 802.1 Provider Backbone Bridges (PBBs) specification defines an architecture and bridge protocols for interconnection of multiple Provider Bridged Networks (PBNs). Provider backbone bridging was defined by IEEE as a connectionless technology based on multipoint VLAN tunnels. PBB can be used to attain better scalability than Provider Bridges (PBs) in terms of the number of customer Medi...

The traditional supplier evaluation methods mostly belong to the static evaluation, and the actual information service provider selection is a dynamic process, need to use dynamic evaluation method to measure. In order to select the IT outsourcing service provider, the tool which uses complex scientific management system-thinking Exploration diagram, established the index system for the selecti...