BACKGROUND Preventive care has an essential role in reducing income-related health inequalities. Despite a general consensus of the need of shifting focus from disease treatment to wellness and prevention, little is known about inequalities in access to preventive care in China. Our study aimed to explore the inequalities in preventive care usage and factors that were associated with such inequ...

The process of insurance underwriting determines whether insurance company will accept an application for insurance. It is a complex decision-making process and due to information overload problems, it becomes harder for the insurance companies to efficiently estimate risks in a reasonable time. In this paper we present a framework of an expert system for insurance premium assessment. It combin...

crop insurance is one of the best strategies to tackle farm risks and encourage producers to adopt modern production technologies. in present study, a sample of 224 insured and uninsured pistachio growers was selected for interview and collected required data using a simple random sampling method. then a logit multinomial model was used to assess factors affecting the choice of supplemental ins...

At the time of this writing, the electronic commerce market place is dominated by business-to-business transactions. This paper describes one such application and our software prototype in support of this application. Our main contribution is a software solutions (using Java) that employs the concept of deltas to maintain consistency in a replicated, distributed environment. Our proposed soluti...

This paper describes a project in which the Tanaka corpus of matched Japanese-English sentence pairs has been linked to the WWWJDIC online Japanese-English dictionary. The process of linking the corpus is described in detail, as well as an analysis of the word coverage, and the editing of the corpus to remove some of the errors it contains. The paper concludes that the Tanaka corpus can success...

BACKGROUND During the past several decades, emergency department (ED) increasing volume has proven to be a difficult challenge to address. With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, there is much speculation on the impact that health care coverage expansion will have on ED usage across the country. It is currently unclear what the effects of Medicaid expansion and a decreased number of uninsur...

This paper introduces an approach to telematics device data application in automotive insurance. We conduct a comparative analysis of different types devices that collect information on vehicle utilization and driving style its driver describe advantages disadvantages these devices. The possible formats are described methods their processing format convenient for modeling proposed. also introdu...