This policy brief discusses preventive care benefits and cost-sharing included in health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation and highlights some consequences to Americans and the country in terms of healthcare costs and value.

This paper analyzes whether advertisers would be better off using data that would enable them to target users more accurately if the only way they could use this data is by sharing the data with all advertisers. I present a wide range of theoretical results that illustrate general circumstances under which an advertiser can be assured that sharing data will make the advertiser better off. I the...

abstract some issues such as dehydration, local and chronological disproportion of rainfall, low productivity of water in agricultural sector, increasing demand for agricultural products due to increase in population participate with doughtiness are the most challenges of agricultural water. these factors caused water to be as one of the important and scarce inputs is agricultural products. the...

In the coming years, the use of smart objects will drastically increase in different application areas like Smart grid, Home automation, Building automation and Health care. Driver for these activities will be the business value coming from cost reduction due to reduced development, installation and maintenance effort in comparison to the existing, proprietary solutions or niche standards of to...

Three criticisms of the contingent valuation method (CVM) are considered in this article. One technique that would appear to answer such criticisms is choice modelling (CM). CM permits value estimates for di¡erent goods sharing a common set of attributes to be pieced together using the results of a single multinomial (conditional) logit model. The CM approach to environmental value assessment i...

nowadays, the utilization of organizational knowledge and sharing it with other employees in governmental project-based organizations, have become a strategic source of gaining and preserving competitive advantage. acquiring competitive advantage requires means and approaches that make the governmental project-based organizations capable of improving their knowledge sharing performance and gain...