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- De Graeve, Diana, et al.
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Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US
- 2000
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Ingår i: Journal of health economics. - : Elsevier B.V. - 1879-1646 .- 0167-6296. ; 19:5, s. 553-583
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a comparison of horizontal equity in health care utilization in 10 European countries and the US. It does not only extend previous work by using more recent data from a larger set of countries, but also uses new methods and presents disaggregated results by various types of care. In all countries, the lower-income groups are more intensive users of the health care system. But after indirect standardization for need differences, there is little or no evidence of significant inequity in the delivery of health care overall, though in half of the countries, significant pro-rich inequity emerges for physician contacts. This seems to be due mainly to a higher use of medical specialist services by higher-income groups and a higher use of GP care among lower-income groups. These findings appear to be fairly general and emerge in countries with very diverse characteristics regarding access and provider incentives.
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- Höst, Martin, et al.
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Benchmarking of Processes for Managing Product Platforms - a Case Study
- 2002
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Ingår i: IEE Proceedings - Software. - : Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). - 1462-5970. ; 149:5, s. 137-142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A case study is presented in which two organisations have participated in a benchmarking initiative to discover improvement suggestions for their processes for managing product platforms. The initiative, based on an instrument which consists of a list of questions, has been developed as part of this study and contains eight major categories of questions that guide the participating organisations to describe their processes. The descriptions were then reviewed by the organisations cross-wise in order to identify areas for improvement. The major objective of the case study is to evaluate the benchmarking procedure and instrument in practice. The result is that the benchmarking procedure with the benchmarking instrument has been well received in the study. It was therefore concluded that the approach is probably applicable for other similar organisations as well.
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- Pagello, Enrico, et al.
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Overview of RoboCup 2003 competition and conferences
- 2004
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Ingår i: RoboCup. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 3540224432 ; , s. 1-14
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- RoboCup 2003, the seventh RoboCup Competition and Conference, took place between July the 2nd and July the 11th 2003 in Padua (Italy). The teams had three full days to setup their robots. The competitions were held in the new pavilion no7 of the Fair of Padua (Fig. 1). Several scientific events in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence were held in parallel to the competitions. The RoboCup Symposium was held in the last two days. The opening talks took place in the historical Main Hall of the University of Padua and the three parallel Symposium sections in the conference rooms of the Fair of Padua.
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- Pagello, Enrico, et al.
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RoboCup-2003 : new scientific and technical advances
- 2004
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Ingår i: The AI Magazine. - 0738-4602. ; 25:2, s. 81-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on the RoboCup-2003 event. RoboCup is no longer just the Soccer World Cup for autonomous robots but has evolved to become a coordinated initiative encompassing four different robotics events: (1) Soccer, (2) Rescue, (3) Junior (focused on education), and (4) a Scientific Symposium. RoboCup/2003 took place from 2 to 11 July 2003 in Padua (Italy); it was colocated with other sceintific events in the field of AI and robotics. In this article, in addition to reporting on the results of the games, we highlight the robotics and AI technologies exploited by the teams in the different leagues and describe the most meaningful scientific contributions
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