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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Incremental impact of venture capital financing
Alperovych, Yan; Hübner, Georges - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 651-666
capitalists’ (VCs) value-adding activities, and/or from both. We examine these factors in the context of a complex simulation …’s performance. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013 …
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Frais, performance et risque des fonds d'investissement islamiques et conventionnels : une approche théorique et empirique
Mehri, Meryem - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis framework to explain the fixed and performance fees, the performance … and the investor have respectively an impact on the periodic performance fees (carried interest) during the bargaining … performance and the risk of funds. To achieve our objective, we create a unique database that has an international sample of …
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A Theoretical Study of Organizational Performance Under Information Distortion
Carley, Kathleen M.; Lin, Zhiang - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 7, pp. 976-997
How should organizations of intelligent agents be designed so that they exhibit high performance despite information … distortion? We present a formal information-based network model of organizational performance given a distributed decision making … environment in which agents encounter a radar detection task. Using this model, we examine the performance of organizations with …
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Simulation of HVAC systems
Lebrun, J. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 1151-1158
Very powerful simulation softwares are available today. They should allow rational choices from early design stages …
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Streams of events and performance of queuing systems: The basic anatomy of arrival/departure processes, when focus is set on autocorrelation
Nielsen, Erland Hejn - Ehrvervøkonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2004
Judging from the vast number of articles in the field of queuing simulation, that assumes i.i.d. in one or more of the … processes for some simulation study a thorough preliminary analysis has to be undertaken in order to uncover the basic time … system performance measures as for instance average waiting time or average time in system are significantly influenced by …
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Experimental and simulative investigation of a micro-CCHP (micro combined cooling, heating and power) system with thermal management controller
Wu, J.Y.; Wang, J.L.; Li, S.; Wang, R.Z. - In: Energy 68 (2014) C, pp. 444-453
ICE and AD are proposed in order to simulate the system performance. Based on results of experiment and simulation, system … simulation are conducted. Firstly, the experimental system and methodologies are described in detail. Then, simulation models of …
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Simulation-based design and optimization of refrigeration cassettes
Waltrich, Maicon; Hermes, Christian J.L.; Melo, Cláudio - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 12, pp. 4756-4765
coefficient of performance (COP) showed maximum deviations of±10%. A genetic optimization algorithm was used to design the …
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Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing (RBF): The Case of Community and Demand-Side RBF in Rwanda
Renaud, Adrien; Semasaka, Jean-Paul - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Rwanda, led by its Ministry of Health, was the first African country to implement Performance- Based Financing (PBF … three selected MCH services in health centers. Verifying the performance of these interventions is an integral part of RBF …
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Impact Study of the Arrival of a New Mobile Phone Operator in Haiti
HUET, Jean-Michel; VIENNOIS, Isabelle; LABARTHE, Pierre; … - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 86, pp. 175-192
Do telecoms really contribute to the economic development of developing countries ? After funding a new mobile phone operator in Haiti, the Agence Française de Développement and Proparco have been willing to assess the impact of the arrival of this new operator on the Haitian economy. This...
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