Demand-side strategies include helping consumers and purchasers differentiate between highand low-value services, making consumers more cost-conscious shoppers for services and insurance coverage, and raising their awareness about the consequences of health behaviors. In all of these endeavors, the demand-side project entails broadening and deepening the research base for cost and quality analy...

Efficient network coverage and connectivity are the requisites for most Wireless Sensor Network deployments, particularly those concerned with area monitoring. The Coverage Control Technology is one of the basic technologies of wireless sensor network, and is mainly concerned about how to prolong the network lifetime on the basis of meeting users’ perception demand. To optimize wireless sensor ...

The growing population in Puebla City these last couple of years entailed the expansion of its original urban area. The most recent settlements have established on areas that are highly exposed to natural disasters, thus, requiring the proper emergency service coverage provided by Fire Stations. To assure this kind of service coverage, the current fire stations in Puebla City were evaluated thr...

This paper derives estimates of the demand for dental care among the U.S. population 65 years of age and over. The analysis is unique in that it focuses on a segment of the population with particular relevance to future policy regarding dental insurance coverage and distinguishes determinants of dental care demand by type of service. The empirical estimates suggest that the use of dental servic...

in this paper, a novel multi-objective bus stop location model is proposed, which considers not only the coverage of demand and minimization of access time but also the necessities of suitable stops for transit network design phase. three objective functions are considered including minimizing (i) sum of the total access distance (time), (ii) the weighted combination of stops, and (iii) the num...

The Affordable Care Act’s expansion of insurance coverage is expected to increase demand for primary care services. We estimate that the national increase in demand for such services will require 7,200 additional primary care providers, or 2.5 percent of the current supply. On average, that increased demand is unlikely to prove disruptive. But when we examined how this increased demand will be ...

We study the optimal insurance demand of a riskand ambiguity-averse consumer if contract nonperformance risk is perceived as ambiguous. We find that the consumer’s optimal insurance demand is lower compared to a situation without ambiguity and that his degree of ambiguity aversion is negatively associated with the optimal level of coverage. We also determine sufficient conditions for biased bel...

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