Only limited empirical studies reported own-price elasticity of demand for health care in rural China. Neither research on income elasticity of demand for health care nor cross-price elasticity of demand for inpatient versus outpatient services in rural China has been reported. However,...

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of spiral rod (SR), twisted tape (TT), guide vane (GV) and thread grooves (TG) nozzles are compared by numerically and experimentally for swirl angle [[EQUATION]] and Reynolds number [[EQUATION]] . An experimental system is built to investigate the heat...

With the reform and development of the health service system, China now is Facing a shortage of medical services. A policy that permitted qualified medical professionals to engage in private practice was issued by the state government in 1980, and reconfirmed and detailed in later years....

(cont.) mechanism, a user only needs to know a small region of the Internet in order to select a route to reach a destination. In addition, a novel route representation and packet forwarding scheme is designed such that a source and a destination address can uniquely represent a sequence of...

The present Internet routing system faces two challengingproblems. First, unlike in the telephone system, Internet users cannotchoose their wide-area Internet service providers (ISPs) separatelyfrom their local access providers. With the introduction of newtechnologies such as broadband...

Within the context of California's public report of <italic>coronary artery bypass graft</italic> (CABG) surgery outcomes, we first thoroughly review popular statistical methods for profiling healthcare providers. Extensive simulation studies are then conducted to compare profiling schemes based on hierarchical...