BACKGROUND In South Korea, people injured in road traffic accidents receive compensation for medical costs through their automobile insurance. However, the automobile insurance system appears to manage health care inefficiently. This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with the hospital length of stay (LOS), which was used as an indicator of healthcare utilization, for inpatients ...

Electric vehicles are expanding significantly in recent years. Policies have been critical stimulating the growth of electric vehicle market. This paper focuses on subsidy policies for adoption a horizontally differentiated goods Using representative consumer model and assuming duopoly firms compete Cournot fashion, we find that optimal level subsidies might not fall as result decreasing produc...

The interest in adopting electric actuation in Navy ships, and in particular in submarines, usually founders on the issue of the mass and volume of electric actuators, which are perceived to be significantly worse than those of competing technologies. Certainly looking at the volume, mass, power and torque of a typical 3 phase induction machine, even in comparison with a typical automobile engi...