Abstract Shark Bay Marine Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Property located in region of marginal tropical cyclone influence. Sustainable management this unique environment as the climate changes requires quantified understanding its vulnerability to natural hazards. Here, we outline structured analysis novel historical archive information that has uncovered reports an extreme storm surge associ...

The education level of entrepreneurs plays an important role in the decision-making process loan financing. In this paper, research method optimization theory is used to study problem and maximizing utility entrepreneurs, optimal analytic solution obtained. On basis, influence change bank interest rate, marginal effect entrepreneur’s effort, investment, elastic coefficient effort investment on ...

Several schemes have been proposed for compactly representing multiattribute utility functions, yet none seems to achieve the level of success achieved by Bayesian and Markov models for probability distributions. In an attempt to bridge the gap, we propose a new representation for utility functions which follows its probabilistic analog to a greater extent. Starting from a simple definition of ...

As the US pursues health care reform, it is important to understand the patterns in demand for, and opposition to, public provision of medical treatments. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we develop and estimate a utility-theoretic choice model to quantify demand for publicly provided medical treatment policies. We find diminishing marginal utility for increased recoveries an...

We consider demand systems for utility-maximizing consumers facing general budget constraints whose utilities are perturbed by additive linear shifts in marginal utilities. Budgets are required to be compact but are not required to be convex. We define demand generating functions (DGF) whose subgradients with respect to these perturbations are convex hulls of the utility-maximizing demands. We ...

BACKGROUND Due to the importance and uniqueness of the characteristics of the health sector, one of the most important priorities of the Ministry of Health is measuring the efficiency and quality of services which are provided for the people who refer to the health sectors. In all health systems, responding to the needs and wishes of patients is a crucial priority. OBJECTIVES The main purpose...