Business cost is acknowledged as one of the priorities in SMEs research. In thisstudy, the business cost of SMEs in Shanghai was primarily measured using Factor-Entropy analysis method. The purpose of this study is to effectively resolve the issueof simplification and assignment evaluation index system on business costs of SMEsin Shanghai. However, this study uses factor analysis to interpret t...

BACKGROUND African Americans have been historically under-represented in genetic studies. More research is needed on effective recruitment strategies for this population, especially on approaches that supplement traditional clinic enrollment. This study evaluates the cost and efficacy of four supplemental recruitment methods employed by the Primary Open-Angle African American Glaucoma Genetics ...

A key question in cooperative game theory is that of coalitional stability, usually captured by the notion of the core—the set of outcomes such that no subgroup of players has an incentive to deviate. However, some coalitional games have empty cores, and any outcome in such a game is unstable. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of stabilizing a coalitional game by using external paym...

background & aim: in many medical studies, one data set is used to construct the model, and to test its performance. this approach is prone to over optimization, and leads to statistics with low chance of external validity. data splitting can be used to create training and test sets but the cost is reduction in power. the aim of this study was to demonstrate the ability of bootstrap aggregating...

A key question in cooperative game theory is that of coalitional stability, usually captured by the notion of the core—the set of outcomes such that no subgroup of players has an incentive to deviate. However, some coalitional games have empty cores, and any outcome in such a game is unstable. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of stabilizing a coalitional game by using external paym...

This paper contributes to the broad literature on public services contracting in two ways. First, we provide an empirical analysis of contracting decisions in the provision of welfare-to-work (WTW) services. We estimate both the WTW-contracting decisions of Dutch municipalities and their impact on the performance, measured as the fraction of Social Assistance (SA) recipients. Second, we explici...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to provide support, based on a review of existing data, for a general relationship between metabolic cost and force generated. There are confounding factors that can affect metabolic cost, including muscle contraction type (isometric, eccentric, or concentric), length, and speed as well as fiber type (e.g., fast or slow) and moment arm distances. Despi...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of internal initiatives to improve quality as compared with external feedback, and as compared with a control group. METHOD Ten primary health centres were randomly selected from the centres in the Murcia's Region and were randomly assigned into three groups: G1 committed themselves to the improvement; G2 composed by two subgroups: wi...

A key question in cooperative game theory is that of coalitional stability, usually captured by the notion of the core—the set of outcomes such that no subgroup of players has an incentive to deviate. However, some coalitional games have empty cores, and any outcome in such a game is unstable. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of stabilizing a coalitional game by using external paym...