The accessibility provided by the transportation system plays an essential role in driving
urban growth and urban functional land use changes. Conventional studies on land use …

Abstract Transaction Cost Economics has been used in the healthcare context to discuss the
make-or-buy dichotomy, focusing on minimizing production or governance costs …

Los daños por terremotos en edificios y sistemas esenciales han motivado la definición de
estándares de comportamiento de estas instalaciones, buscando reducir las pérdidas …

Fertility projections are vital to anticipate demand for maternity and childcare services,
among other uses. Models typically use aggregate population-level data alone, ignoring the …

Background Ensuring healthcare delivery is dependent both on the prediction of the future
demand for healthcare services and on the estimation and planning for the Health Human …

The aim of this paper is to understand the economic performance of craftsmen cooperatives
during the crisis period. These cooperatives have the distinctive feature of being supply …

The aim of the article is to present the use of production function as a source of knowledge
for managers of county hospitals to make rational decisions so as to achieve economic …

Different regions of Iran are influenced by dust storms since they are located in the arid and
semi-arid zone and due to their plain structure, the penetration of different synoptic systems …

BACKGROUND Discrete-time event history analysis (EHA) is the standard approach taken
when modelling fertility histories collected in surveys, where the date of birth is often …

Building on the idea that different hospitals may operate with different technologies, the
objective of this paper is a spatial characterization of the production function of hospital …