BACKGROUND Unintended pregnancies lead to unsafe abortions, which are a leading cause of preventable maternal mortality among young women in Uganda. There is a discrepancy between the desire to prevent pregnancy and actual contraceptive use. Health care providers' perspectives on factors influencing contraceptive use and service provision to young people aged 15-24 in two rural districts in Uga...

Today's large scale networks such as the Internet emerge from the interconnection of privately owned networks and serve heterogeneous users with different service needs. The service providers of these networks are interested in maximizing their profit. Since the existing pricing scheme cannot satisfy their needs, the service providers are looking for new pricing mechanisms. However, designing a...

Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless their political control. Conservative Party-controlled also more likely contract with although we found no link Labour-controlled and not-for-profit nor evidence or budgetary factors influence whether providers b...