Despite international recognition of the importance of healthcare management in the development of high-performing systems, the path by which countries may develop and sustain a professional healthcare management workforce has not been articulated. Accordingly, we sought to identify a set of common themes in the establishment of a professional workforce of healthcare managers in low- and middle...

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In this paper we develop a computational framework for the measurement of different factors or abilities which are usually found in intelligent behaviours. For this, we first develop a scale for measuring the complexity of an instance of a problem, depending on the descriptional complexity (Levin LT variant) of the ‘explanation’ of the answer to the problem. We centre on the establishment of ei...

The paper presents a descriptive model for measuring the salient traits and tendencies of a translation as compared with the source text. We present some results from applying the model to the texts of the Linköping Translation Corpus (LTC) that have been produced by different kinds of translation aids, and discuss its application to MT evaluation.

Rich, semantically descriptive file attributes are valuable in many contexts, such as semantic namespaces and desktop search. Descriptive attributes help users to find files placed in seemingly-arbitrary locations by different applications. However, extracting semantic attributes from file contents is nontrivial. An alternative is to examine file provenance: how and when files are used, and the...

A static 2D image can be turned into an interactive medium by providing descriptive information that is shown on demand. For this purpose, two challenges need to be solved. First, appropriate techniques for the storage of descriptive information and it’s linkage to the image content are needed. We address this challenge by applying techniques from information hiding, a procedure we call Illustr...

This study explores buyers’ search and purchase behavior in an information-overloaded retail Electronic Marketplace (EMP). Two instrumental variables, i.e. number of visitors and number of sales for an item, are used to represent buyers’ search and purchase behavior. Price and reputation, two of the most frequently researched independent variables in EMP studies, are considered. The relationshi...