Similarly, in a qualitative study in Rwanda a P4P scheme incentivised providers to hire more staff – thereby improving the ratio of patients to staff (Kalk et al., 2010). One of the contextual factors identified in the literature that likely moderates this relationship, is the availability of...
the best parameter values are determined via a neural network. However, their method only works for problems with regular borders. Lagaris et al [90] extends the method to problems with irregular borders.
Related measures such as the rate constant (kep), which describes the ratio of Ktrans/ve, have also been used. For DSC-MRI, the degree of signal loss observed is dependent on the vascular concentration of the contrast agent and tumour perfusion; the most common used parameters are relative ...
In addition, the term Computational Intelligence has also gained popularity having a somehow quite close meaning to that of Soft Computing. The central idea of this paper is to present, analyze, compare and discuss a few of the definitions that can be found on literature; not trying to find ...
Metal/oxide interfaces are of immense interest as their atomic structures are different from metal/metal coun- terparts. With the presence of an oxide constituent, the bonding of interface is changed from the delocalized metallic bonding to ionic or covalent bonding19,20. Experiments indicate that ...
The overall goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the linpan system and its services. Within the framework of four categories of ecosystem services, including provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services, the deliverables by linpan were elaborated respectively based on ...
This being said, it is the declared goal of this study to provide a high-level overview and not to look deeply into any particular mediatic type or user group. Instead, we take advantage of our extensive dataset to deliver broad-based empirical evidence of the fact that the mobile phone ...
Introduction Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive lung disease that develops as a result of a repetitive injury to the alveolar tissue, mainly the alveolar epithelium, which triggers the immune system to restore the tissue architecture of the damaged tissue. In this process, several ...
1. Introduction Understanding the factors underlying the distribution patterns of species is one of the major tasks of ecology and biogeography [1,2]. It is, moreover, of prime concern for biodiversity conservation. The Tibetan Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains pose as unique biogeographic zones ...