This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic...

This paper derives kinematic admissible bending moment – axial force (M-P) interaction relations for mild steel by considering strain hardening idealisations. Two models for strain hardening – Linear and parabolic have been considered, the parabolic model being closer to the experiments. The interaction relations can predict strains, which is not possible in a rigid, perfectly plastic idealizat...

These notes contain a short exposition of selected results about parabolic equations: Schauder estimates for linear parabolic equations with Hölder coefficients, some existence, uniqueness and regularity results for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic equations (including degenerate ones), the Harnack inequality for fully nonlinear uniformly parabolic equations. MSC. 35K55, 35D40, ...

In the present work the effect of Cu-Water nanofluid, as heat transfer fluid, on the performance of a parabolic solar collector was studied numerically. The temperature field, thermal efficiency, mean-outlet temperatures have been evaluated and compared for the conventional parabolic collectors and nanofluid based collectors. Further, the effect of various parameters such as fluid velocity, vol...

We present optical fields formed by superposing nondiffracting parabolic beams with distinct longitudinal wave-vector components, generating light profiles that display intensity fluxes following parabolic paths in the transverse plane. Their propagation dynamics vary depending on the physical mechanism originating interference, where the possibilities include constructive and destructive inter...

We analyze the optimal coverage level for an unreliable insurance contract if a utility-maximizing policyholder can transfer intrinsic nonperformance risk to several co-insurers. Our discussion starts with demand model under default and introduction of multiple risk-sharing instrument called co-insurance policy. Subsequently, we examine interrelation between recovery rate level, utility policyh...