BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although continuity of care has been found to be associated with improved health outcomes in children, little is known about what factors predict having consistent contact with a pediatric provider. This study explored what patient, family, provider, and system factors are associated with high continuity of both total and well-child care. METHODS This cross-sectional...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we study the Hölder continuity of solution mapping to a parametric variational inequality‎. ‎At first‎, ‎recalling a real-valued gap function of the problem‎, ‎we discuss the Lipschitz continuity of the gap function‎. ‎Then under the strong monotonicity‎, ‎we establish the Hölder continuity of the single-valued solution mapping for the problem‎. ‎Finally‎, ‎we apply these resu...

BACKGROUND The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here. AIMS To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on cl...

Let Δ be an abelian group. By considering the notion multiplication of Δ-graded modules (see [7]) over a commutative Δ-graded ring with unity, we introduce the notion of product of two Δ-graded submodules which we use to characterize the Δ-graded prime submodules of a multiplication Δ-graded module. Finally we proved a graded version of Nakayama lemma for multiplication Δ-graded modules.

A semi-analytical method is used to study the effects of the multi vibration absorbers on the nonlinear functionally graded (FG) Euler-Bernoulli beam subjected to periodic load. The material properties of the beam are assumed to be continuously graded in the thickness direction. The governing equations of functionally graded beam are obtained based on the Hamilton's principle and these equation...

OBJECTIVE Continuity of care is considered foundational to high-quality care. Traditional continuity of care constructs may adequately characterize care quality in general populations, but may merit reconceptualization for patients with multiple chronic conditions. Specifically, interactions between multiple chronic condition patients and providers involve complex medication management; therefo...

this paper extends the notion of ditopology to the case where openness and closedness are given in terms of {em a priori} unrelated drading functions. the resulting notion of graded ditopology is considered both in the setting of lattices and in that textures, the relation between the two approaches being discussed in detail. interrelations between graded ditopologies and ditopologies on textur...

In this paper, a new definition of bounded fuzzy linear orderhomomorphism on $I$-topological vector spaces is introduced. Thisdefinition differs from the definition of Fang [The continuity offuzzy linear order-homomorphism. J. Fuzzy Math. {bf5}textbf{(4)}(1997), 829--838]. We show that the ``boundedness"and `` boundedness on each layer" of fuzzy linear orderhomomorphisms do not imply each other...

We prove the canonical models introduced in [D] do not exist for some graded normal logics with symmetric models, namely KB ~ KBD ~ KBT ~ so that we define a new kind of canonical models, the general ones, and show they exist and work well in every case.