INTRODUCTION Performance-based incentives (PBIs) are currently receiving attention as a strategy for improving the quality of care that health providers deliver. Experiences from several African countries have shown that PBIs can trigger improvements, particularly in the area of maternal and neonatal health. The involvement of health workers in deciding how their performance should be measured ...

Background Senior management and leadership are believed to be responsible for the employment of such initiatives and their own level of engagement appears to have a strong impact on the levels of employees’ engagement, theory suggests. This qualitative research explores the perceived levels, drivers and benefits, as well as the levels of managerial engagement at Organisation A, a leading suppo...

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Activity-based costing (ABC) and the theory of constraints (TOC) represent alternative paradigms for evaluating the economic consequences of production-related decisions. However, their application can lead to contradictory productmix decisions. To resolve this con#ict, it is frequently suggested that the TOC is appropriate for the short run, while ABC is appropriate for the longer term. This p...

We study the problem of constructing a cost-effective regular cover of a strip with identical sectors. Three effective coverage models are considered and their comparative analysis is performed which allows to obtain an upper bound for the minimum number of the sectors per unit length of the strip.

Prosperity indicators (also met as welfare indexes) constitute an important metric towards assessing the level of prosperity in modern communities and/or countries. The document at hand aims at a thorough search, study and recording of various prosperity indicators (e.g. Gross Domestic Product GDP) used in European and global scale, as well as of the underlying data. The document examines and a...

A technique for comparing numerous performances of an identical selection of music is described. The basic methodology is to split a one-dimensional sequence into all possible sequential sub-sequences, perform some operation on these sequences, and then display a summary of the results as a two-dimensional plot; the horizontal axis being time and the vertical axis being sub-sequence length (lon...

Purpose of this contribution Some regulations aim to improve innovation or technological advancement, or at least remove possible obstacles. Competition law, both national and European, is a less known part of the law and is mostly handled by specialised lawyers. The purpose of this contribution is to make the part of competition law that aims to improve innovation more widely known. Two more o...