There are many incentives for physicians to dual practice such as an increase in salary, technology usage, or less work hours. By using the New Institutional Economic approach, we examine these incentives of physicians in Canada’s health care system in three scenarios of dual practice. In the first scenario is physicians dual practicing without any government policies or restrictions in the pri...

A semi-analytical investigation has been carried out to analyze unsteady MHD second-grade flow under the Dual-Phase-Lag (DPL) heat and mass transfer model in a vertical microchannel filled with porous material. Diffusion thermo (Dufour) effects and homogenous chemical reaction are considered as well. The governing partial differential equations are solved by using the Laplace transform method w...

Using [52, 26, 10] binary self-dual codes, possesing an automorphism of order 3, we construct new [54, 27, 10] binary self-dual codes. We do this by applying a technique for extending a [2k, k, d] self-dual code to a [2k+2, k+1] self-dual code. Most of the constructed codes have new values of the parameter in their weight numerators,. We construct new codes with   20, 21, 22 for the first wei...

This paper presents dual-thread Weld architecture for VLIW/EPIC processors. The dual-thread Weld model supports one main thread and one speculative thread running simultaneously in a VLIW/EPIC processor with a register file and a fetch unit per thread. This paper analyzes the cost-performance impact of the dual-thread Weld model, which includes analysis of migrating the disambiguation hardware ...

A pair of Mond–Weir type nondifferentiable multiobjective second order symmetric dual programs is formulated and symmetric duality theorems are established under the assumptions of second order F-pseudoconvexity/ F-pseudoconcavity. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

In this paper, we start our discussion with a pair of multiobjective MondWeir type second-order symmetric dual fractional programming problem and derive weak, strong and strict duality theorems under second-order (φ, ρ)-invexity assumptions.

This paper is an investigation of $L$-dual frames with respect to a function-valued inner product, the so called $L$-bracket product on $L^{2}(G)$, where G is a locally compact abelian group with a uniform lattice $L$. We show that several well known theorems for dual frames and dual Riesz bases in a Hilbert space remain valid for $L$-dual frames and $L$-dual Riesz bases in $L^{2}(G)$.

Multicast is an important collective communication operation on multicomputer systems, in which the same message is delivered from a source node to an arbitrary number of destination nodes. The star graph interconnection network has been recognized as an attractive alternative to the popular hypercube network. In this paper, we first address a dual-hamiltonian-path-based (DHPB) routing model wi...

We introduce the notions of T-dual Rickart and strongly T-dual Rickart modules. We provide several characterizations and investigate properties of each of these concepts. It is shown that every free (resp. finitely generated free) $R$-module is T-dual Rickart if and only if $overline{Z}^2(R)$ is a  direct summand of $R$ and End$(overline{Z}^2(R))$ is a semisimple (resp. regular) ring. It is sho...

In dual decomposition, the dual to an optimization problem with a specific structure is solved in distributed fashion using (sub)gradient and recently also fast gradient methods. The traditional dual decomposition suffers from two main short-comings. The first is that the convergence is often slow, although fast gradient methods have significantly improved the situation. The second is that comp...