In December 2006 a data matching trial was undertaken in partnership between Women's and Children's Hospital (WCH) and Families South Australia (SA), the state child welfare agency, to identify children and young people under guardianship of the Minister for Families and Communities with those already registered on the WCH Patient Administration System (PAS). By identifying this group of childr...

BACKGROUND Several stakeholders have undertaken initiatives to propose solutions towards a more sustainable health system and Spain, as an example of a European country affected by austerity measures, is looking for ways to cut healthcare budgets. METHODS The aim of this paper is to study the effect of private health insurance on health care utilization using the latest micro-data from the Eu...

The stable allocation model is a many-to-many matching model in which each pair’s partnership is represented by a nonnegative integer. This paper establishes a link between two different formulations of this model; the choice function model studied thoroughly by Alkan and Gale and the discrete-concave (M♮-concave) value function model introduced by Eguchi, Fujishige and Tamura. We show that the...

The Multiple Partners assignment game is a natural extension of the Shapley and Shubik Assignment Game (Shapley and Shubik, 1972) to the case where the participants can form more than one partnership. In Sotomayor (1992) the existence of stable outcomes was proved. For the sake of completeness the proof is reproduced in Appendix I. In this paper we show that, as in the Assignment Game, stable p...

We develop a model of partnership and marriage based upon individual abilities and match-specific returns. A theoretical result is that marriage and same-sex partnership positively select more able individuals, while the effect of unmarried heterosexual partnership is ambiguous. We conduct empirical analysis with a unique new data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of ...

The use of a dyadic lens to assess and leverage academic and community partners' readiness to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) has not been systematically investigated. With a lack of readiness to conduct CBPR, the partnership and its products are vulnerable. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the dimensions and key indicators necessary for academic and co...

Automobile manufacturer–distributor partnerships are fundamental to the success of automobile companies. The complexity of the overall partnership model often causes difficulties in partnership study. This paper presents a systematic procedure to evaluate an automobile manufacturer–distributor partnership consisting of a large number of system variables. Firstly, Interpretive Structure Modeling...

Partnership has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to privatization and government–nonprofit relations generally. While in principle it offers many advantages, there is no consensus on what it means and its practice varies. Following a review of partnership literature, the article refines the partnership concept, developing two definitional dimensions: mutuality and organization identi...

many large oil and gas fields in the most productive world regions happen to be fractured. the exploration and development of these reservoirs is a true challenge for many operators. these difficulties are due to uncertainties in geological fracture properties such as aperture, length, connectivity and intensity distribution. to successfully address these challenges, it is paramount to improve ...

Abstract We apply the Darmois and $C^3$ matching conditions to three different spherically symmetric spacetimes. The exterior spacetime is described by Schwarzschild vacuum solution whereas for interior counterpart we choose perfect fluid solutions with same symmetry. show that are satisfied in all cases not fulfilled. argue this difference due a non-physical behavior of pressure on surface.