Introduction: Increasing pressure on available funds in health care section especially hospitals, enhances the need of analyzing different strategies in economic terms. One of the solutions for the optimal use of financial resources and potentials in hospitals and health care centers is using elements of the marketing mix. In this way we could make the best use of the resources...

Over the past few years, mobile marketing has generated an increasing interest among academics and practitioners. While numerous studies have provided important insights into the mobile marketing, our understanding of this topic of growing interest and importance remains deficient. Therefore, the objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive framework intended to guide research effort...

Effective wavelets to solve electromagnetic integral equations are proposed. It is based on the same construction procedure as Daubechies wavelets but with mix-phase to obtain maximum sparsity of moment matrix. These new wavelets are proved to have excellent performance in non-zero elements reduction in comparison with minimum-phase wavelet transform (WT). If further sparsity is concerned, wave...

BACKGROUND Dual eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries consume disproportionate shares of both programs. OBJECTIVES To compare Medicare and Medicaid expenditures of elderly dual eligible beneficiaries with non-dual eligible beneficiaries based on their long-term care (LTC) use. RESEARCH DESIGN Secondary analysis of linked MAX and Medicare data in seven states. SUBJECTS Dual eligible...

Complex manufacturing systems are characterized by an over time changing product mix, prescribed due dates, a huge number of machines, a large number of routes for a diverse product mix, and internal and external disturbances. We have to take into account these properties in course of designing and implementing scheduling systems, i.e., these systems have to be adapted without large efforts to ...

Two primary goals of a research field are (i) communicate and preserve knowledge, and (ii) build and maintain a professional community. A range of tools are at its disposal: books, journals, newsletters, lectures, exhibitions, person-to-person communication, magazine and newspaper articles, workshops, and conferences. Each field is marked by a distinct mix and weighting of these venues. To show...

BACKGROUND Fewer than one in 10 adolescents with substance use disorders (ASUDs) will receive specialty treatment, and even fewer will receive treatment designated as evidence-based practice (EBP). Traditional efforts to increase the utilization of EBP by ASUDs typically focus on practitioners-either in substance use clinics or allied health settings. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing that dir...

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Designing mix-networks for low-latency applications that offer acceptable performance and provide good resistance against attacks without introducing too much overhead is very difficult. Good performance and small overheads are vital to attract users and to be able to support many of them, because with only a few users, there is no anonymity at all. In this paper, we analyze how well different ...