In 2008, an evaluation of the National Eye Care Coordination programme in Zambia was undertaken, after just over 1 year of its existence. The evaluation was undertaken to assess the performance of the programme since it was created as a stand-alone project from its previous operation in the integrated system. Integrating health services has become a common term especially in developing countrie...

φ : R→̃ÔX,p with φ(I1, . . . , Ir) = (a1, . . . , ar)} and its closure C(I1, . . . , Ir) in the appropriate product of Hilbert schemes. If the ideals Ij are monomial, we will say that the space C(I1, . . . , Ir) is an alignment correspondenceswith interior U(I1, . . . , Ir). The significance of the Ij’s being monomial is that in this case we can show that the space U(I1, . . . , Ir) in most case...

The purpose of this paper is to define a diagonal lift Dg of a Riemannian metric g of a manifold Mn to the cotangent bundle T (Mn) of Mn, to associate with Dg an Levi-Civita connection of T(Mn) in a natural way and to investigate applications of the diagonal lifts.

We extend the model of voluntary contributions to multiple public goods by allowing for bundling of the public goods. Specifically, we study the case where agents contribute into a common pool which is then allocated towards the financing of two pure public goods. We explore the welfare implications of allowing for such bundling vis-a-vis a separate contributions scheme. We show that when agent...

1 Graph streams have been studied extensively, such as for data mining, while fairly limitedly for visualizations. Recently, edge bundling promises to diminish visual clutter in large graph visualizations, though mainly focusing on static graphs. This paper presents a new framework, namely StreamEB, for edge bundling of graph streams, which integrates temporal, neighbourhood, data-driven and sp...

Abstract In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods – fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance in small shared area. This article brings dynamics this phenomenon into view under heuristic rubric ‘bundling’, reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala some phenomenon’s hi...

This paper studies the incentives for multiproduct duopolists to sell their products as a bundle. It is shown that contrary to the monopoly case bundling may reduce profits and increase consumer rent. This is the case if consumers’ reservation values are negatively correlated. The reason is that bundling reduces consumer heterogeneity and makes price competition more aggressive. This effect can...

Cysteine-rich protein 1 (CRP1) has a unique structure with two well separated LIM domains, each followed by a glycine-rich region. Although CRP1 has been shown to interact with actin-binding proteins and actin filaments, the mechanism regulating localization to the actin cytoskeleton in cells is not clear. Experiments using truncated forms showed that the first LIM domain and glycine-rich regio...

The phenomenon of organizations offering service bundles can typically be observed in dynamic markets with heterogeneous customer demand. Available literature broaching the issue of service bundling covers strategic considerations for organizations related to their respective market position as well as their pricing options for different bundle configurations. However, little guidance can be fo...