BACKGROUND Continuity is a fundamental tenet of primary care, and highly valued by patients; it may also improve patient outcomes and lower cost of health care. It is thus important to investigate factors that predict higher continuity. However, to date, little is known about the factors that contribute to continuity. The purpose of this study was to analyse practice, provider and patient predi...

We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage “strip-down” as a foreclosureprevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is provided by a series of U.S. court decisions that introduced strip-down in parts of the U.S. and a Supreme Cou...

The reliability of confessions is subject to a variety of factors, some of which give rise to expert testimony. To the degree that prosecutors construe the determination of reliability as an objective standard, they may attempt to bar testimony. Moreover, when the testimony is theoretical rather than clinical, there are additional challenges. Depending on jurisdiction, the admissibility of expe...

Function (linear) spaces E on which some arbitrary real or complex continuous function operates (in other words, E is stable under the unary operation defined by this function) were studied by K. de Leeuw, Y. Katznelson, Y. Sternfeld and Y. Weit, showing, e.g. that for a complex function space E consisting of bounded functions, containing the constants and closed w.r.t. the sup-norm, if some no...

American voting patterns exhibit long periods of relative stability in the voters’ partisan preferences. This continuity, however, is occasionally interrupted by a sudden shift in party loyalties. This inquiry focuses on the shift of party loyalties in the 1850s which gave rise to the Republican party. During the 1850s, the national party system underwent a massive reorganization. At the beginn...

A function from Baire space N to the natural numbers N is called formally continuous if it is induced by a morphism between the corresponding formal spaces. We compare formal continuity to two other notions of continuity on Baire space working in Bishop constructive mathematics: one is a function induced by a Brouwer-operation (i.e. inductively defined neighbourhood function); the other is a fu...

multistage stochastic programming is a key technology for making decisions over time in an uncertain environment. one of the promising areas in which this technology is implementable, is medium term planning of electricity production and trading where decision makers are typically faced with uncertain parameters (such as future demands and market prices) that can be described by stochastic proc...

We propose \MobileSocket", a new simple userlevel enhanced socket library written in pure-Java. MobileSocket provides Java applications with application layer mobility and connection continuity in order to support their continuous operation. Existing Java applications can attain socket-level mobility and connection continuity without any modi cation to their source code merely by replacing Java...

Utilizing the gathered failure data and failure interval data from Tabas coal mine in two years, this paper discusses the reliability of powered supports. The data sets were investigated using statistical procedures and in two levels: the existence of trend and serial correlation. The results show that the powered supports follow the Gamma reliability function. The reliability of the machine de...