Abstract This study examines the accountability of self among sustainability and humanitarian advocates participating in World Economic Forum. Drawing from Butler’s (Giving an account oneself. Fordham University Press, New York, 2005) philosophy, we explore how these individuals narrate their to themselves others, contradictions they experience, explain becoming responsible this context. Our da...

The complex Swift-Hohenberg equation models pattern formation arising from an oscillatory instability with a finite wave number at onset and finds applications in lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and photorefractive oscillators. We show that with real coefficients this equation exhibits two classes of localized states: localized in amplitude only or localized in both amplitude and phase....

University scientific research ability is an important indicator to express the strength of universities. In this paper, the evaluation of university scientific research ability is investigated based on the output of sci-tech papers. Four university alliances from North America, UK, Australia, and China, are selected as the case study of the university scientific research evaluation. Data comin...

Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Available online 4 November 2014 MSC: 49A50 49J45 58E12

Many observers view accountable care organizations (ACOs), created by the Accountable Care Act, as the current health care reform version of managed care. A payment and care delivery model, ACOs were created to coordinate health care delivery among providers, resulting in lower overall health care costs for defined patient populations, while also meeting performance standards on quality of care...