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Is introducing rapid culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative tuberculosis cost-effective?

YAKHELEF, Nadia; Audibert, Martine; VARAINE, Francis; … - HAL - 2013

Setting: In 2007, WHO recommended introducing rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of the introduction of rapid non-commercial culture method (Thin Layer Agar)...

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Collection of passenger travel data in Sub-Saharan African cities: Towards improving survey instruments and procedures

Behrens, Roger; Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; … - HAL - 2006

common problems might be addressed. The paper draws from the available French and English literature on survey methods … preparation, comparative instrument and cognitive testing, hierarchical multi-modal methods, interviewer selection and training … methods, and survey administration and monitoring. …

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Methodologies and Tools to Evaluate Issues Relating to Land-Use and / or Social Aspects of Urban Transportation Policies: An accessibility Concept Linked Approach

Caubel, David - HAL - 2004

Transportation policy issues are important in urban areas since they try to answer growing preoccupations. Nevertheless, do assessment tools enable the evaluation of social equity? In the French case, assessment methodologies - cost-benefit analysis - have been developed to make allowance for...

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Value indicators and monitoring in innovative PDM: A grounded approach

Hooge, Sophie; Hatchuel, Armand - HAL - 2008

Long-term success of firms depends on the efficiency of their management of R&D projects. However, there is a gap between standard economic and strategic indicators and the high uncertainty, complexity of commitments, and organizational issues that can be observed in the more innovative R&D...

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A value for bi-cooperative games

Labreuche, Christophe; Grabisch, Michel - HAL - 2008

Bi-cooperative games were introduced by Bilbao et al. as a generalization of TU cooperative games, in which each player can participate positively, negatively, or not at all. In this paper, we propose a definition of a share of the worth obtained by some players after they decided on their...

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Innovation et intelligence collective

Bertheau, Philippe - HAL - 2014

Research states that the success of a specific innovation cannot be predicted. As a consequence, the value of such an innovation can only be stated very late in the development process, or even in retrospect. Our empirical research shows that professionals directly engaged in the design process...

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Cross-talk in economics and neuroscience

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Schoonover, Carl - HAL - 2008

Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...

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Explicit Formulas for Repeated Games with Absorbing States

Laraki, Rida - HAL - 2009

Explicit formulas for the asymptotic value and the asymptotic minmax of finite discounted absorbing games are provided. New simple proofs for the existence of the limits when the players are more and more patient (i.e. when the discount factor goes zero) are given. Similar characterizations for...

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Rethinking business models for innovation

Chanal, Valérie; Akselsen, Sigmund; Blanco, Sylvie; … - HAL - 2011

One of the major challenges confronted by those in charge of technological innovation involves anticipating the value creation model sufficiently early on,in a highly uncertain context both as far as the technology itself is concerned and the potential market. Today, in many industrial sectors,...

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W. E. DEMING, Pragmatism and sustainability

Canard, Frédéric - HAL - 2011

's System of Profound Knowledge about ethics and sustainability and argues that they are related to the philosophy of pragmatism …

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