COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant and multiple challenges for SMEs. While SMEs have traditionally faced financial non-financial crises, the about additional uncertainties on how to maintain business continuity. The purpose of this paper is examine can mitigate against COVID-19-related crisis by examining impacts that had them through a review 34 articles. thematic analysis from literatu...

This paper contributes to the debate about the impact of population ageing on health-care (HC) expenditure. Some health economists claim that the commonly presumed impact of population ageing is a 'red herring'. Based on empirical studies, these authors conclude that proximity to death and not age per se matters. In projecting HC expenditure for Switzerland, the present study provides evidence ...

BACKGROUND There is no comprehensive study of the costs of horse-related workplace injuries to Australian Thoroughbred racing jockeys. OBJECTIVES To analyse the characteristics of insurance payments and horse-related workplace injuries to Australian jockeys during Thoroughbred racing or training. METHODS Insurance payments to Australian jockeys and apprentice jockeys as a result of claims f...

Developers of distributed embedded systems face challenges of high demands on reliability and performance, requirements on lowered product cost, and supporting many configurations, variants and suppliers. Component-based development is a promising software engineering approach to cost efficiently deal with software variability, reusability and maintainability. However, we claim that existing to...

BACKGROUND End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients receiving dialysis are at particular risk for infection. We assessed the clinical and economic burden of pneumonia in a population of Medicare-enrolled ESRD patients with respect to incidence and case fatality rates, rates of all-cause and cardiovascular hospitalization, and costs. METHODS Patients received dialysis between 01 January 2009 an...

Ministry prepared dutifully to administer the service, and Britain obtained health care free at the point of delivery for all-a system which, despite exceeding all original financial estimates, became, in fact, the most cost-efficient in the world. Bevan realised a socialist dream, but Honigsbaum claims that the real ideological roots of National Health provision were the Christian principles o...

We recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during the processing of unambiguous German sentences containing different types of filler-gap dependency. Both topicalization constructions and wh-questions were found to elicit a left-anterior negativity (LAN) prior to the processing of the subcategorizing verb, relative to a gap-free control condition. At the subcategorizing verb, sentences c...

BACKGROUND Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy is associated with improved outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF), but whether this association holds among older patients with multiple comorbid illnesses and worse HF burden remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the National Cardiovascular Data Registry's ICD Registry and the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (G...

BACKGROUND Management of opioid dependence is associated with many challenges such as the misuse of prescribed treatment and lack of medication adherence that can affect the clinical outcome of the patient. Buprenorphine-naloxone was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2002 as the first outpatient treatment indicated for opioid dependence. There is only 1 report in the ...