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Crowdsourcing harnesses the potential of large and open networks of people. It is a relatively new phenomenon and attracted substantial interest in practice. Related research, however, lacks a theoretical foundation. We propose a system-theoretical perspective on crowdsourcing systems to address...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: By understanding the costs of HIV/AIDS, businesses can understand the incentives for preventing and treating the disease better. This report primarily investigates whether there is a difference in the relationship between HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and related costs in different...
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argument that it is the government’s responsibility to provide HIV/AIDS education and healthcare. In this way they nullify the …/AIDS education is key to both management and employees.Risk management should be holistic. For example, providing healthcare without … increases the cost of doing business in South Africa. These costs include:• increased healthcare expenses;• increased retirement …
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Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient … concept of following a consistent project management framework to boost quality outcomes can be applied equally to healthcare … modeling projects. It goes on to suggest that such a framework can be used to compliment the dominant healthcare improvement …
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healthcare setting. ---------- Originality/value: The consultative process engaged clinicians and the paper delivers an insider …
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that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors and the unpredictability of those risks as perceived by insurance … higher rate of return obtaining insurance; or some combination of DOE loan guarantee, lease and insurance. No attempt has …
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Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … the Insurance Industry.'' Presentations were made by insurance company representatives, insurance trade groups, government … discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to reducing insurance losses. …
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The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...
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