Problem Definition: Queensland’s Compulsory Third-Party (CTP) Insurance Scheme provides a mechanism for persons injured as result of motor vehicle accident to receive compensation. Managing CTP claims involves multiple stakeholders with potentially conflicting interests. It is therefore pertinent investigate whether ‘best practice’ processing can be identified and measured so all claimants fair...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. these models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. in a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. if the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

Mixed methods research is the use of quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or series of studies. It is an emergent methodology which is increasingly used by health researchers, especially within health services research. There is a growing literature on the theory, design and critical appraisal of mixed methods research. However, there are few papers that summarize this methodo...

— We study an abstract eigenvalue problem related to a saddle-point formulation, and then we discretize it, obtaining error bounds for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. We apply our results to the solution of four th order problems by mixed finite element methods. INTRODUCTION We are interested in the following eigenvalue problem: Find X e R and (u, >\f) e V x W such that v)+b(v9 v|/) = 0, VweF, ...

We develop a new mixed formulation for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic problems. This new formulation expands the standard mixed formulation in the sense that three variables are explicitly treated: the scalar unknown, its gradient, and its ux (the coeecient times the gradient). Based on this formulation, mixed nite element approximations of the second-order elliptic problems ar...

in this paper, a positive definite semi-discrete mixed finite element method was presented for two-dimensional parabolic equations. in the new positive definite systems, the gradient equation and flux equations were separated from their scalar unknown equations.  also, the existence and uniqueness of the semi-discrete mixed finite element solutions were proven. error estimates were also obtaine...