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Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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rates, relates to fund returns, we use a sample of fund IRRs recently disclosed by public pension plans and state universities following Freedom of Information Act suits. Such data are available for 188 of the 3,469 funds in our sample. While this sample is small and not necessarily representative
Dissemination of performance information and continuous improvement A narrative systematic review
"... Abstract Purpose -Developing a performance measure and reporting the results to support decision making at an individual level has yielded poor results in many health systems. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the factors associated with the dissemination of performance information that gen ..."
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/value -While considerable attention was paid to the public reporting of performance information, this review sheds some light on a more promising avenue for changes and improvements, notably in public health systems. Keywords Quality improvement, Performance measurement, Knowledge sharing, Continuous
Realization of Public M-Health Service in License-Free Spectrum
"... Abstract—Public m-health is a new medical service under intensive development, which provides unobtrusive monitoring of people’s health conditions from anywhere at any time to enable detection of deteriorating health conditions before severe discomfort or disability occur. A key challenge in practic ..."
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in practical implementation of public m-health is the use of shared license-free spectrum by body area networks (BANs) to report sampled vital signs continuously and in real time. A cognitive medium access control method called centralized body area network access scheme (CBAS) is proposed in this paper
A meta-analytic review of obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents: The skinny on interventions that work.
- Psychological Bulletin,
, 2006
"... This meta-analytic review summarizes obesity prevention programs and their effects and investigates participant, intervention, delivery, and design features associated with larger effects. A literature search identified 64 prevention programs seeking to produce weight gain prevention effects, of wh ..."
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This meta-analytic review summarizes obesity prevention programs and their effects and investigates participant, intervention, delivery, and design features associated with larger effects. A literature search identified 64 prevention programs seeking to produce weight gain prevention effects
ii List of Publications
, 2014
"... pages 156–175, 2013. [2] Johannes Buchmann, Denise Demirel, and Jeroen van de Graaf. Towards a publicly-verifiable mix-net providing everlasting privacy. In Financial Cryptog-raphy, pages 197–204, 2013. [3] Denise Demirel, Jeroen van de Graaf, and Roberto Araùjo. Improving helios ..."
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pages 156–175, 2013. [2] Johannes Buchmann, Denise Demirel, and Jeroen van de Graaf. Towards a publicly-verifiable mix-net providing everlasting privacy. In Financial Cryptog-raphy, pages 197–204, 2013. [3] Denise Demirel, Jeroen van de Graaf, and Roberto Araùjo. Improving helios
Improving HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management Using EHRs Improving HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management Using EHRs
"... Background: A primary goal for the development of EHRs and EHR-related technologies should be to facilitate greater knowledge management for improving individual and community health outcomes associated with HIV / AIDS. Most of the current developments of EHR have focused on providing data for resea ..."
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Background: A primary goal for the development of EHRs and EHR-related technologies should be to facilitate greater knowledge management for improving individual and community health outcomes associated with HIV / AIDS. Most of the current developments of EHR have focused on providing data
Vol. 18(5–6) NSW Public Health Bulletin | 83
"... Alcohol-related violence is a significant cause of harm in most countries.1 Australian studies suggest that incidents of assault, domestic violence, unintentional injuries and Reducing alcohol-related violence and improving community safety: the Alcohol Linking Program Abstract: Harm associated with ..."
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Alcohol-related violence is a significant cause of harm in most countries.1 Australian studies suggest that incidents of assault, domestic violence, unintentional injuries and Reducing alcohol-related violence and improving community safety: the Alcohol Linking Program Abstract: Harm associated
Output-based payment to boost staff productivity in public health centres: contracting
- in Kabutare district, Rwanda’, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
, 2007
"... Objective In many low-income countries, public health systems do not meet the needs and demands of the population. We aimed to assess the extent to which output-based payment could boost staff productivity at health care facilities. Methods We assessed the performance of 15 health care centres in K ..."
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in Kabutare, Rwanda, comparing productivity in 2001, when fixed annual bonuses were paid to staff, with that in 2003, when an output-based payment incentive scheme was implemented. Findings Changes to the structure of contracts were associated with improvements in health centre performance: specifically
22.10.2009 Implementation of a Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game with Realtime Requirements
"... Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the recent years, particularly in the form of online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games support up to several ten thousand players interacting in a virtual game world. The current commercially successful games are ..."
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is selected for implementation with Planet π4. Planet π4 is improved in several aspects for the purpose of analyzing various network implementations. First, its architecture is restructured and cleaned to allow for an easy replacement of the networking component. Second, its core is modified to work in a
CMU-CyLab-08-007
, 2008
"... Mobile users share the same expectations as wired users: they want to communicate with other people, they ex-pect the communication to be secure, and it should all be easy. However, mobility poses many challenges for security. Communication is often ad hoc, and the infras-tructure may be untrusted. ..."
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of these protocols become more prone to human error. We present GAnGS, a fully-implemented system for exchanging authentic information between mobile de-vices when they are physically present in the same lo-cation. GAnGS is scalable, appropriate for two or more devices. We implement two user-friendly variants of GAn
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