A complex interaction of ideological, financial, social, and moral factors makes the financial sustainability of health care systems a challenge across the world. One difficulty is that some of the moral commitments of some health care systems collide with reality. In particular, commitments to equality in access to health care and to fair equality of opportunity undergird an unachievable promi...

Abbot JM, Byrd-Bredbenner C. Development of a Self-Directed Home Kitchen Makeover for Mothers of Young Children. The Forum. 2009;14:1-7. Available online at: www.ncsu.edu/ffci This paper describes formative research guiding the development of an intervention designed to improve the ability of mothers of young children to plan, prepare, and serve healthy family meals. Interviews showed that the ...

We present a quantitative methodology for analyzing the potential for contagion and systemic risk in a network of interlinked financial institutions, using a metric for the systemic importance of institutions: the Contagion Index. We apply this methodology to a data set of mutual exposures and capital levels of financial institutions in Brazil in 2007 and 2008, and analyze the role of balance s...

We apply the object-oriented robust factor analysis R package robustfa to the 28 financial indicators of the 100 listed companies in China’s Chinese Securities Index (CSI) 100 index in the first quarter of 2013. First of all, according to the size of the data, we automatically choose a robust estimator, the robust Ogk estimator. By the Mahalanobis distances which are computed by the robust Ogk ...

The disparate spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall in the country and climate variation sometimes leads to rivers flooding and large flood events, which are remarkable for life and financial losses. Flood control design requires accurate knowledge of the flood generator basin, especially smaller ones, in large basins. Determining the potential of flood generation to specify the...

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