As low-income countries are initiating health insurance schemes, Ethiopia is also planning to move away from out-of-pocket private payments to health insurance. The success of such a policy depends on understanding and predicting preferences of potential enrolees. This is because a scarce health care budget forces providers and consumers to make trade-offs between potential benefits within a he...

Department of Mechatronics Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, Taiwan, ROC Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, Taiwan, ROC College of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-da Road, Changhua City 500, ...

† The author is with Department of electronics engineering and computer Science at Fukuoka University , Fukuoka-shi, 814-0180, ‡ The author is with Institute of Systems & Information Technologies/KYUSHU, Fukuoka-shi, 814-0001 § The author is with Department of Informatics at Kyushu University, Fukuoka-shi, 816-8580 Quantitative Evaluation of State-Preserving Leakage Reduction Algorithm for L1 D...

1Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan 2Devision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku,...

BACKGROUND A social health insurance (SHI) program was implemented in Vietnam in 1992. Participation is compulsory for some groups, such as formal-sector workers and voluntary for other groups. In 2013, 68% of the total population was covered by SHI, with most enrollees from compulsory groups. Enrollment has remained low among persons whose enrollment is voluntary. As a result, households face ...

The role of epinephrine and norepinephrine in contributing to the alterations in hepatic glucose metabolism during a 70-h stress hormone infusion (SHI) was investigated in four groups of chronically catheterized (20-h-fasted) conscious dogs. SHI increased glucagon (∼5-fold), epinephrine (∼10-fold), norepinephrine (∼10-fold), and cortisol (∼6-fold) levels. Dogs received either all the hormones (...

The hierarchy of classical Chinese poetry has been broadly acknowledged by a number of studies in Chinese literature. However, quantitative investigations about the evolution of classical Chinese poetry are limited. The primary goal of this study is to provide quantitative evidence of the evolutionary linkages, with emphasis on word usage, among different period genres for classical Chinese poe...

This paper deals with a monotone empirical Bayes test δ∗ n for a truncation parameter distribution using the linex loss. The asymptotic optimality of δ∗ n is investigated. Under very mild conditions, it is shown that δ∗ n is asymptotically optimal with a rate of order n. This rate improves the empirical Bayes test δ n of Xu and Shi (2004) in the sense that faster convergence rate is achieved un...