Background: There is a growing interest in using pay-for-performance mechanisms in low and middle-income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers. However, at present there is a dearth of independent evaluations of such approaches which can guide understanding of...

Electrical energy consumption in Eastern Saudi Arabia is modeled as a function of weather data, global solar radiation and population. Five years of data have been used to develop the energy-consumption model. Variable selection in the regression model is carried out by using general,...