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    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells second quarterly report, 21 nov. 1964 - 20 feb. 1965

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    Dense gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cell

    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells Seventh quarterly report, 21 Feb. - 20 May 1966

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    Cells using amalgam-insoluble salt electrodes and examination of dense electrolytic solution

    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells Eighth quarterly report, period ending 31 Jul. 1966

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    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cell

    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells Fourth quarterly report, 21 May - 20 Aug. 1965

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    Gaseous electrolyte development for batteries and fuel cell

    Gaseous electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells Fifth quarterly report, 21 Aug. - 20 Nov. 1965

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    Stability and equilibrium measurements of sodium amalgam concentration cells with ammonia electrolytic solven

    Remittances as a Social Status Signaling Device

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    Like all human beings, migrants may have a concern about their prestige or social status in the eyes of left home family and friends. They can remit money in order to signal their economic success and increase their status. We show that, if migrants' income is private information, unsuccessful migrants might accept a worsening of their living conditions and send back home large amounts of remittances only in order to make residents believe that they are successful. In some cases, successful migrants can signal their true favorable economic situation by remitting an even larger amount.Imperfect Information; Poverty; Remittances; Signaling

    Migrant wages, remittances and recipient labour supply in a moral hazard model

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    This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may behave as if they were in a poor economic situation only in order to manipulate remitters' expectations. The latter, being aware of this risk, reduce the remitted amount accordingly. Therefore, in the equilibrium, residents who really are victims of the bad economic outlook, are penalized as compared to the perfect information set-up. In some circumstances, they can signal their type by drastically cutting working hours, thus further enhancing their precarity right when their economic situation is the worst.Migrants, Remittances, Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium, Labour Supply, Signaling, Altruism

    Crystal growing by electrodeposition from dense gaseous solutions

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    Single crystals and dendritic formations of silver are grown on platinum electrodes by electrodeposition from a dense gaseous solution of silver nitrate in ammonia. Process is modification of hydrothermal process, and also differs from standard electrodeposition by permitting single crystals to be grown from hydrogen-bonded solvents

    International Remittances and Residents' Labour Supply in a Signaling Model

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    This paper analyzes the impact of remittances sent by altruistic migrants on the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with asymmetric information about the residents' real economic situation. The optimal transfer depends on wages of both the donor and the recipient. Residents subject to a good economic situation may behave as if they were in a poor economic situation only in order to manipulate remitters' expectations. The latter, being aware of this risk, reduce the transferred amount accordingly. Therefore, in the equilibrium, residents who really are victims of the bad economic outlook, are penalized as compared to the perfect information set-up. In some circumstances, they can signal their type by drastically cutting working hours, thus further enhancing their precarityAltruism; Development; International Economics; Labor Economics; Labor Supply; Migrants; Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium; Signaling

    The preferred doctor scheme: A political reading of a French experiment of Gate-keeping

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    Study objective: Since January 2005 France is exploring a new scheme termed "preferred doctor" (mĂŠdecin traitant) which can be considered as an innovative version of Gate Keeping in order to reduce the excess of postulated excess in health consumption, more especially access to specialist care. This paper describes the political process which lead to it's implementation, tries to relate some of the scheme specific features with it's results after one year implementation and tries to catch a glimpse for the next steps of the reform. Material and methods: In order to measure the scheme impact on the "patient treatment pathway" and on physician income, we used a sample of 7198 individual from the 2006 "French health, Health Care and Insurance Survey "(ESPS),"including health, socioeconomic and insurance status and through a set of questions relating to patient's understanding of the scheme and different data bases of the national sickness fund as well as different studies done by regulatory agencies. Results and discussion: First results after one year implementation show that most patients chose a preferred doctor, who in a vast majority happened to be their family doctor. A vast majority of patients also considered the scheme as mandatory. Impact on access to specialist care, as measured through self assessed unmet need for specialist care, appears not negligible, especially for the less well off and those not covered by a complementary insurance. In term of financial impact, the new constraints on access to ambulatory care seem to have been offset by rises in the fee schedules for the specialities which lost direct access We discuss why these short term weak outcomes are linked with a wicked system of the health system governance and to the political and professional context in which the scheme unfolded strongly and determined its structure and implementation pathway. On a more long range perspective, we analyse how the new scheme may nevertheless lead up to reinforced managed care reforms.Managed Care, Gate keeping, health care services utilization, unmet needs.
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