BACKGROUND The importance of tackling economic, social and health-related inequities is increasingly accepted as a core concern for the post-Millennium Development Goal framework. However, there is a global dearth of high-quality, policy-relevant and actionable data on inequities within populations, which means that development solutions seldom focus on the people who need them most. INTREC (IN...

BACKGROUND Almost seven years after the publication of the final report of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), its third recommendation has not been attended to properly. Measuring health inequities (HI) within countries and globally, in order to develop and evaluate evidence-based policies and actions aimed at the social determinants of health (S...

We generalize the concept of the symmetric hyperdeterminants for symmetric tensors to the E-determinants for general tensors. We show that the E-determinant inherits many properties of the determinant of a matrix. These properties include: solvability of polynomial systems, the E-determinant of the composition of tensors, product formula for the E-determinant of a block tensor, Hadamard’s inequ...

staff job satisfaction is very important for assessments leading to organizational devel-opment. job satisfaction is a general attitude of workers towards with their job and it de-pends on the sum of all factors in organizational relations. the correlates of organiza-tional leadership style such as process of leadership, motivating factors, communication, process of decision making, and charact...

Consumers frequently engage in pre-purchase search to extract up-to-date information for their purchase decisions. Search is an essential part of online comparison-shopping and decision-making process as it reduces purchase related uncertainty and increases the likelihood of purchase satisfaction. In this paper, we study how determinants of prepurchase search, purchase related uncertainty and t...

Political debates on the reform of health systems are stimulated by dissatisfaction of citizens with their health system. To adapt health systems in order to achieve more satisfaction, policy makers must know what citizens expect from it, in particular, what actually determines the citizen’s satisfaction. The paper will analyze the topic of satisfaction with health systems under three aspects: ...

In this paper, we describe an approach for automatically generating configurations for complex applications. Automated generation of system co nfigurations is required to allow large -scale deployment of custom applications within utility computin g environments. Our approach models the co nfiguration management problem as an Object -Oriented Constraint Satisfaction Problem (OOCSP) that can be ...