in this article, a game in which terrorists and the state government are the players is considered. on the one hand, terrorists try to attack major cities and impose damages (loss in the state’s point of view), on the other hand, the state tries to reduce damages through establishing the optimal number of facilities that are also optimally located. furthermore, allocating of fixed facilities in...

in this paper, we study the network location problem for two congestible facilities, considering impatient customers. we suppose that when a customer arrives his/her corresponding facility and faces a queue with the size more than a predetermined threshold, the customer decides not to join the queue but to go to the closest facility to current facility. in the second facility, if the queue size...

BACKGROUND Afghanistan has made great strides in the coverage of health services across the country but coverage of key indicators remains low nationally and whether the poorest households are accessing these services is not well understood. METHODS We analyzed the Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 on utilization of inpatient and outpatient care, institutional delivery and antenatal care by w...

In this paper we consider an urban population represented by a continuum of individuals uniformly distributed over the unit interval that faces a problem of location and nancing of multiple public facilities. We examine three notions of stability of emerging jurisdiction: stability under unanimous consent, free mobility and core and provide a characterization of stable partitions under these no...

Finding the location for plans like factories or warehousesfor any organization is an important and strategic decision. Costs oftransportation which are the main part of the price of the goods, is thefunction of the location of these projects. to find the optimum locationof these projects, there have been various methods proposed which areusually defined (not random). In reality and in dealing ...

This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters’ perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of chief. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local publi...

About two years ago, the death of a high school student athlete brought methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) into the national spotlight. Preventing the spread of MRSA in schools, gyms, and other public facilities is an important public health goal. This Issue Brief presents current information on the prevalence and transmission of MRSA in community settings, and describes ongoing...

I study competition of the governments that make a decision on the investment in their public facilities, which yield an excludable good with nonrivalry. Special attention is paid to their strategic interaction, their spatial relationship, an opportunity to exploit third party regions, and a discrete nature of some of their choices. Their decision making process is analyzed as a two-stage game ...