PURPOSE The global economy is changing the labour market and social protection systems in Europe. The effect of both changes on health needs to be monitored in view of an ageing population and the resulting increase in prevalence of chronic health conditions. The Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study provides unique longitudinal data to study the impact of labour trajectori...

Abstract A study of 1,558 US households in June 2020 evaluated utilization online grocery shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, influences on utilization, and plans for future shopping. Nearly 55 percent respondents shopped 2020; 20 were first-timers. Cragg model estimates showed likelihood frequency included demographics, employment, prior Illness concerns increased likelihood, while food sho...

We consider the problem of existence of entire solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation Δu + u - u(3) = 0 in , usually regarded as a prototype for the modeling of phase transition phenomena. In particular, exploiting the link between the Allen-Cahn equation and minimal surface theory in dimensions N ≥ 9, we find a solution, u, with ∂(x(N))u > 0, such that its level sets are close to a nonplanar, mi...

We study a singular limit problem of the Allen-Cahn equation with Neumann boundary conditions and general initial data of uniformly bounded energy. We prove that the time-parametrized family of limit energy measures is Brakke’s mean curvature flow with a generalized right angle condition on the boundary.

BACKGROUND International recruitment is a common strategy used by high-income countries to meet their medical workforce needs. Ireland, despite training sufficient doctors to meet its internal demand, continues to be heavily dependent on foreign-trained doctors, many of whom may migrate onwards to new destination countries. A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure and analyse the factor...

This paper presents a new methodology based on AHP and ANP (Saaty, 1980, 1996) to estimate the value and transfer fees of professional football players. The paper extends the AHP multicriteria methodology proposed by Moreno-Jiménez et al. (2010) for estimating the value of these sportsmen. The new approach multiplicatively combines the (intrinsic) value of the player (estimated by means of AHP ...

Electoral systems are complex entities composed of a set of phases that form a process to which performance parameters can be associated. One of the key points of every electoral system is represented by the electoral formula that can be characterized by a wide spectrum of properties that, according to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and other theoretical results, cannot be all satisfied at the s...