The paper analyzes the situation of intermediaries and their business models in the Swiss health system. Various intermediary roles are positioned within the value-added chain of the healthcare system. Particular attention is paid to cost-benefit relationships of intermediation for partners of the intermediary and for the intermediary itself. With regard to the connection between healthcare pro...

We consider a central extension of the mapping class group of a surface with a collection of framed colored points. The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs associated to SU(2) and SO(3) induce unitary representations of this group. We show these representations have finite image in the case r is an odd prime. We show this for all r if the surface is a sphere. We show this for all r if the surface i...

About 600 compounds were screened as possible carbon or nitrogen sources for Salmonella typhimurium LT-2. About 100 utilizable compounds were found.

In this talk, we show how the monodromy matrix, M̂, can be constructed for the two dimensional tree level string effective action. The pole structure of M̂ is derived using its factorizability property. It is shown that the monodromy matrix transforms non-trivially under the non-compact T-duality group, which leaves the effective action invariant and this can be used to construct the monodromy ma...

The 2 variation formula of the Seiberg-Witten functional is obtained in order to estimate the Morse index of redutible solutions (A, 0). It is shown that their Morse index is given by the dimension of the largest negative eigenspace of the operator △A + kg 4 , hence it is finite.

Touch is one of the most essential elements of human development, a profound method of communication, a critical component of the health and growth of infants, and a powerful healing force (Bowlby, 1952; Harlow, 1971, 1986). Ample research has demonstrated that tactile stimulation is extremely important for development and maintenance of physiological and psychological regulation in infants, ch...

I. Nagy1,2 and I. Aldazabal2,3 1Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Technical University of Budapest, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary 2Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, P. Manuel de Lardizabal 4, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 3Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU) MPC, P. Manuel de Lardizabal 3, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain (Received 28 January 2010; published 7 M...