a drastic reduction in medical errors. Health outcomes report cards are said to be one mechanism by which health care provider quality information is disseminated to the public. Health outcomes report cards usually provide information related to adverse health outcomes, such as mortality rates and complications rates, at the provider for a specific procedure or treatment of a specific disease such as heart disease report cards are the most well-established that is used to rate a provider. It is imperative
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Strategic Initiative Paper "Disney" Marquita Lacy-Polk, Diana Dorsey, Kim Jenkins, Joshua Snooks FIN/370 January 29, 2014 Strategic Initiative Paper "Disney" Disney has grown exponentially to become a household name and a global leader in the industry of family entertainment. Shortly after as a small cartoon company, Ellas Disney, founder of Walt Disney grew the Disney Corporation into something that no one could have imagined. Ellas Disney was always known for his innovation and abilities
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Conference, in Patras, Greece, for helpful comments on an earlier draft. 1 ABSTRACT This paper uses an attendance demand model with panel data on over 4,000 games to examine economic problems of fixture congestion in English Football League schedules. We find that televised midweek Champions League matches involving English Premier League clubs have substantial adverse impacts on lower division Football League gate attendance. This suggests that affected clubs may have a case for compensation from the
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An Overview of Land Based Sources of Marine Pollution | This page is one of a series of web pages developed by the CAR/RCU on various Environmental Issues in the Caribbean. These pages are a good starting point for research into many of the pressing concerns of the nations and territories of the Wider Caribbean Region. They contain definitions, descriptions, discussions, links to relevant on-line documents and web sites. Read about other
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environment. The objective of the Joint Commission is to ensure health care services provided are based on a highly reliable commerce with reduced rates of adverse procedures and increased safety. One of the assignments I worked on for the contract project required me to meet with the joint commission manager to observe her responsibilities. The Joint Commission manager was responsible for reviewing emails about changes in the quality and safety of patients. Additional research should be conducted
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Price Discovery in Currency Markets Abstract This paper makes three contributions to our understanding of the price discovery process in currency markets. First, it provides evidence that this process cannot be the familiar one based on adverse selection and customer spreads, since such spreads are inversely related to a trade’s likely information content. Second, the paper suggests three potential sources for the pattern of customer spreads, two of which rely on the information structure
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percent that year and then an additional 1.9 percent in 2008. The trend accelerated [in 2009] with a 5.5 percent reduction in overall crime ...” (Jerry Markon, The Washington Post, May 25th 2010) To replicate contributing factors and ensure sustained crime decrease sociologists and economists have tried to determine the root cause factors and have debated multiple reasons, sometimes contradictory, explaining this overall trend but none of these theories have reached general consensus. So what
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The Relationship Between Exchange Rate and Inflation in Pakistanby Shagufta KashifAbstractThere has been a long-standing interest in studying the factors that are responsible for uneven vacillation in the stable growth of the world economies. Lots and lots of theoretical literature and empirical evidences have addresses this issue in the past. Hike in prices of goods and services and foreign exchange are two important aspects which are deemed responsible for such potholed fluctuations in the economic
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demographics. Explain how health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. Statistical data and reports show social behavior, economic status, and social structure are important determinants of health. According to Williams and Torrens, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and illicit drug use are all examples of personal decision making and patterns of behavior that have a tremendous adverse effect on personal health and on the nation’s economy (Williams & Torrens, 2010) p.46. Individuals
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ASCI JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 29(1). 39-48 Copyright ? 1999 - Administrative Staff College of India. R. VAIDYANATHAN Asset-liability management: Issues and trends in Indian context This paper discusses issues in asset-liability management and elaborates on various categories of risk that require to be managed. It examines strategies for asset-liability management from the asset side as well as the liability side, particularly in the Indian context. It also discusses the specificity of financial
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