The world has embraced a set of concepts (knowledge driven growth) which are seen as the ‘core of future growth and wellbeing’ without any commonly agreed notion of what they are, how they might be measured, and crucially therefore, how they actually do (or might) affect economic growth and...

Despite widespread efforts to expand health insurance in developing countries, there is scant evidence as to whether doing so actually improves people's health. This paper aims to fill this gap by evaluating the impact of Rural Mutual Health Care (RMHC), a community-based health insurance...

Let {Xn}; be a sequence of i.i.d. random variables with distribution function F. For r [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1 and n [greater-or-equal, slanted] r, let Zrn be the rth largest of };X1,...,Xn};. Let [mu]n = F-1(1 - n-1), n [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1, and suppose that {rn}; is a...

The Young's moduli of electrodeposited Ni with different dimensions were measured carefully in this paper. The dimensions of tensile specimens were 200, 35, or 5 μm thick and 2400, 200 or 50 μm wide. These specimens were measured with three different approaches. The measured Young's moduli of...

This paper surveys institutional arrangements for macroprudential policy in Asia. Central banks in Asia typically have a financial stability mandate, and play a key role in the macroprudential framework. Smaller and more open economies with prudential regulation inside the central bank tend to...

The actual hydrogen consumption of a fuel cell stack varies with a fixed time delay under the step load change. For each individual stack, the delay time in the step-up load stage is generally shorter than in the step-down stage. Due to the hydrogen purge operation, transient overshoots take...

Prognostics and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation for lithium-ion batteries play an important role in intelligent battery management systems (BMS). The capacity is often used as the fade indicator for estimating the remaining cycle life of a lithium-ion battery. For spacecraft requiring...

Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well as to provide...

With the ultimate goal of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, many countries have recently adopted innovative financing mechanisms to encourage the use of professional maternal health services. The current study evaluates one such initiative – a pilot voucher program in Bangladesh. The...