Optimal Groves Mechanism and Optimal Mechanism Design

In this paper we will discuss about mechanisms design, the mechanisms used to implement optimal market structure with private fixed cost of N firms. The discussion includes definitions, goal, concepts, basic assumptions of mechanism, properties of feasible mechanism, Revenue Equivalence Theorem, and Groves mechanism. Moreover, we discuss the optimal Groves mechanism and optimal mechanism. There are two things involved in both mechanisms, those are social welfare and tax revenue

Analisis Motivasi Orang Tua Menyekolahkan Anak Ke Perguruan Tinggi Di Desa Brangkal Kecamatan Karanganom Kabupaten Klaten

The aim of this study are (1) to find out the level of youth education, (2) to find out parents motivation who gives education to children by sending them to college, (3) to find out the factors which influence parents motivation on sending them to college in Brangkal Village, Karanganom Sub District, Klaten Regency. The type is qualitative research. The design is ethnography. The subject is parents who send the children to college. The object is located in Brangkal Village, Karanganom Sub District, Klaten Regency. The result of this study is the education level of youth from Brangkal Village, Karanganom Sub District, Klaten Regency is majority on senior high school level. There are five reasons why parents send their children to college such as to get better education, to elevate the honor of their parents, to get the proper jobs, to form the character and to postpone the marriage life. The factors that influence the motivation of parents to send their children to college is most influenced by the desire of their child, meanwhile other factors are including financial adequancy, parental education background, the desire of child, family environment and the residence

Reconnaissance Study on the Implementation of Case-Based Payments

To improve PhilHealth's benefits framework, enhance hospital services, and achieve one of the Universal Health Care's thrusts, greater financial protection, the case-based payment (CBP) scheme was implemented in 2011. CBP is a provider payment scheme initially implemented with rates for the 23 most common medical and surgical cases. This study investigates what has happened with CBP after its nationwide implementation through the perspectives of the following stakeholders, such as PhilHealth, administrators of health facilities, and health care providers. This also concerns operational aspects of the implementation not an assessment whether CBP helped achieve Universal Health Coverage for the Philippines. The approach used in this study is a mix of qualitative methods including desk review of the legal framework of health financing, administrative orders related to CBP, key informant interviews, and survey on health care providers. Areas of implementation were thematically grouped into four categories based on the results of interviews and survey, namely: 1) administration and system, 2) human resources, 3) medical integrity, and 4) financing.Overall, CBP needs improvement on the turnaround time for reimbursements to both health providers and hospitals, electronic updating of claims, membership directory, and physicians' accreditation statuses, shifting of policies from different implementing agencies, transparency, and impact evaluation processes for health outcomes

(SNP106) Zenith Shifflett Sampson interviewed by Chris Brasted, transcribed by Tiffany Cole

Records an interview with Zenith Sampson, (née Shifflett), who lived on Lewis Mountain, in Greene County, Virginia, within the future boundaries of Shenandoah National Park. Describes daily life in the mountains, touching on the work of growing and preserving food, the apple and chestnut harvests, bark peeling, and other local economic activities. Recalls popular community events, such as apple butter boilings, quilting and bean stringing parties, church gatherings and barn dances. Mrs. Sampson also recollects the earliest days of Skyline Drive and the impact it had on various mountain communities. At the time of the interview, Chris Brasted was an editor for the Greene County Record newspaper. His interview with Zenith Sampson was the basis for his Life in the Mountains article published in the newspaper on April 1, 1993. A photocopy facsimile of the article is included with the transcript.https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/1130/thumbnail.jp

Livro do Desassossego: traducir, leer y descifrar el texto

This article develops Richard Zenith’s views as the editor and translator of Livro do Desassossego and his useful reflections on authorship, editing and translating. It also presents paradigmatic examples of the difficulties of reading certain parts of LdD as well as an analysis of how these textual variants can alter the (ficticious) authorship, editing and translation criteria of this work in an international context.El presente artículo desarrolla la perspectiva de Richard Zenith como editor y traductor del Livro do Desassossego, ofreciendo en clave testimonial útiles reflexiones sobre los conceptos de autoría, edición y traducción. Asimismo, presenta ejemplos paradigmáticos de las dificultades de lectura de algunos fragmentos del Livro, comentando cómo estas variantes textuales pueden alterar los criterios de autoría (ficticia), edición y traducción de la obra en un contexto internacional

"Barrowby", Boys’ Books, and How to Make Literature

ABSTRACT: In what is commonly understood to be an autobiographical note, Fernando Pessoa wrote, "Those books which are called boys’ books and deal with exciting experiences I cared little for." In fact, as a young adolescent in Durban, Fernando not only read a lot of "boys’ books," he also tried to write one of his own: Os Rapazes de Barrowby (The Boys of Barrowby) lifted its title, the names of some characters, and various structural details from The Barrowboy Boys, serialized in a British magazine for boys in 1903. Pessoa completely changed the story, however, and partly subverted the genre. KEYWORDS: boys’ books, Barrowby, story papers, dime novels, O Palrador, Durba