BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The price and availability of medicines are key components in determining access to effective treatment. Data on prices and availability of common medicines in public and private sector in different States of India are scarce. Hence, surveys were undertaken in different States of India to evaluate these metrics. METHODS During October 2004 to January 2005, six surveys w...

Due to increase in demand for utilizing public Cloud resources, we are facing with many trade-offs between price, performance and recently reliability. Amazon’s Spot Instances (SIs) provide a low price yet less reliable and competitive bidding option for the public Cloud users. Although some works have explored the utilization of SIs to decrease the monetary cost of Cloud computing, the charact...

Abstract O ne of the main criticisms of location models is simplistic assumptions concerning the consumers’ distribution on the street or city. The location models usually make use of uniform distribution of consumers while it is not true in reality, and mostly the consumers’ accumulation is more in the city centers rather than suburb areas. This study deals with selectio...

We present a detailed analysis of the self-organization phenomenon in which the stylized facts originate from finite size effects with respect to the number of agents considered and disappear in the limit of an infinite population. By introducing the possibility that agents can enter or leave the market depending on the behavior of the price, it is possible to show that the system self-organize...

Purpose This paper examines the role of government procurement as a social policy mechanism within multilateral open trading system. Government regulations globally are being transformed to foster more responsible business conduct in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Yet, concern that sustainability may present discriminatory barrier trade has stalled progress sustainable public (SPP) at intern...

introduction: cost is becoming a growing concern for the managers of health and treatment institutes both in private and public sectors. based on the opinions of pathology and radiology specialists and experts, one private and one public center for radiology and laboratory were selected to study in kerman city. method: this is a cross-sectional and applied study. the two centers were similar in...