In this paper we examine and discuss how internal demands for recognition of plural identities reparation colonial dispossessions through cultural heritages are being carried out in Germany Brazil, two countries with different trajectories within Modernity’s shared relational experience. For it, spotlight recent developments concerning the mobilization past by means proposing policies as symbol...

What happens if HIPC debt relief resources are not additional? We seek to answer this question by quantifying the impact of debt service payments and aid flows in crosscountry growth and investment regressions. Based on the regressions we assess the likely impact of debt relief with and without changes in the aid flows. The result is that one-for-one changes in debt service payments and officia...

Class noise refers to the incorrect labeling of examples in classification, and is known to negatively affect the performance of classifiers. In this contribution, we propose a boosting-based hybrid algorithm that combines data removal and data reparation to deal with noisy instances. A experimental procedure to compare its performance against no-preprocessing is developed and analyzed, laying ...

In January 2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts launched a new payment arrangement called the Alternative Quality Contract. The contract stipulates a modified global payment (fixed payments for the care of a patient during a specified time period) arrangement. The model differs from past models of fixed payments or capitation because it explicitly connects payments to achieving quality ...

background: households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. this study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (ffc) and kakwani indices in tehran-iran, 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study was condu...

The recently enacted Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) includes a broad set of provisions intended to enlarge the role of private health plans (called Medicare Advantage plans) in Medicare. This issue brief examines the payments that private plans are receiving in 2004 relative to costs in traditional fee-for-service Medicare, using data from the 2004 ...