This paper presents a feasibility study of the mechanism of the National Health Services in U.K and the U.S. Medical Care System respectively. The issue is empirically examined from four aspects namely externalities, information asymmetry, and market failure. It comes to the conclusion that with...

This paper develops a cumulative entropy method (CEM) to recognize the most suitable distribution for model error. In terms of the CEM, the Lévy stable distribution is employed to capture the statistical properties of model error. The strategies are tested on 250 experiments of axially loaded...

The discrepancies have played an important role in quasi-Monte Carlo methods and uniform design. Zhou et al. (2013) proposed a new type of discrepancy, mixture discrepancy (MD), and showed that MD may be a better uniformity measure than wrap-around L2-discrepancy and centered L2-discrepancy. In...

In this study, we investigate three kinds of fractional differential models (distributed-order model, variable-order model and random-order model) for characterization of anomalous diffusion. The characteristics, physical advantages and potential applications of each model are highlighted. The...

We make a failsafe extension to the incomplete minority game model, give a brief analysis on how incompleteness will effect system efficiency. Simulations that limited incompleteness in strategies can improve the system efficiency. Among three failsafe modes, the “Back-to-Best” mode brings...

Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....

It seems that the removal of a perverse economic incentive alone would not lead to improvement of healthcare providers’ prescribing patterns. The rationality of the Essential Medicines List and the lack of payers’ and providers’ meaningful involvement in the development of the policy...

The determination of overlapping degree of interfacial layers is crucial to evaluate physical properties of particulate composites. The purpose of the present work is to develop a theoretical scheme for the overlapping degree of interfacial layers around polydisperse ellipsoidal particles in...

This study examines different regularization approaches to investigate the solution stability of the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). We compare three regularization methods in conjunction with two different regularization parameters to find the optimal stable MFS scheme. Meanwhile, we...