Network virtualization has caught the attention of many researchers in recent years. It facilitates the process of creating several virtual networks over a single physical network. Despite this advantage, however, network virtualization suffers from the problem of mapping virtual links and nodes to physical network in most efficient way. This problem is called virtual network embedding (“VNE”)....

Abstract Background Family physician-contracted service (FPCs) has been recently implemented in Chinese primary care settings. This study was aimed at measuring the effects of FPCs on residents’ health-related quality life (HRQoL) and equity health among population. Methods The data drawn from 2018 household survey (Shaanxi Province, China) using multistage, stratified cluster random sampling. ...

This study focuses on a recently introduced type of indicator measuring disruptiveness in science. Disruptive research diverges from current lines by opening up new lines. In the study, we included initially proposed this (Funk & Owen-Smith, 2017; Wu, Wang, Evans, 2019) and several variants with DI1: DI5, DI1n, DI5n, DEP. Since indicators should measure what they propose to measure, investigate...

BACKGROUND Urban population in China is mainly covered by two medical insurance schemes: the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI) for urban employees in formal sector and the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) for the left urban residents, mainly the unemployed, the elderly and children. This paper studies the effects of UEBMI and URBMI on health services utilisation in Sh...

The generalized list T -coloring is a common generalization of many graph coloring models, including classical coloring, L(p, q)-labeling, channel assignment and T -coloring. Every vertex from the input graph has a list of permitted labels. Moreover, every edge has a set of forbidden differences. We ask for such a labeling of vertices of the input graph with natural numbers, in which every vert...

This study examines the relationship between ex-auditor CEOs in companies and corporate social responsibility disclosure Indonesian setting, where presence of is increasing every year. We use sample 581 firm-year observations from 106 firms that published sustainability reports on Stock Exchange 2010–2020. The results show with an auditor background are more likely to disclose CSR information. ...

Buffer stock intervention is a hedging policy against income losses due to price fluctuations, primarily from farming activities, notably the production of cereals. This paper investigates impact buffer on smallholder farmers’ food security in Ghana. To this end, motivation was estimate nutrient-content household dietary diversity index (NHDDI) based cross-sectional data set. We apply Coarsened...

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are becoming a major source of the national disease burden in Myanmar with potentially serious economic implications. METHODS Using data on 5484 households from the World Health Survey (WHS), this study assessed the household-level economic burden of two chronic conditions, angina and asthma, in Myanmar. Propensity score matching (PSM) and coarsened...