We analyze vertical integration between platforms providing operating systems to manufacturers of devices in presence of indirect network effects between buyers of devices and developers of applications. Vertical integration creates market power over non-integrated manufacturers and application developers. That market power provides the merged enti...
Published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Introduction From 2018 to 2020, Adolescents 360 (A360), aiming to increase demand for and voluntary uptake of modern contraception among adolescent girls 15–19 years, designed and scaled an intervention in Tanzania (Kuwa Mjanja) to 13 regions through project-funded expansion. In 2020, the project began to develop a strategy for its follow-on phase,...
The geometry of MEMS devices is limited by the technologies used to fabricate them. Today, microsystems are manufactured with patterning technologies that allow only for 2D and 2.5D geometries. These miniaturized devices are widely used in industry, including the automotive, electronics, and biomedical sectors, and their adoption in our society is ...
Contract farming constitutes a long-term productive and commercial modality in time and space; for this reason, it is essential to approach the different interpretations of its determinants. In this sense, this article analyzes the theoretical and interpretative contributions that the main currents and schools of economic thought have raised about ...
Published in Advances in Medical Education and Practice
The status of anatomy education in undergraduate medical education has dramatically changed over the course of the past century. From the most important and time-consuming component of the preclinical program, anatomy education has reduced in size and status, and yielded in curricular space to accommodate other disciplines and topics. Meanwhile, ra...
Published in Health economics
Hospital-physician integration has surged in recent years. Integration may allow hospitals to share resources and management practices with their integrated physicians that increase the reported diagnostic severity of their patients. Greater diagnostic severity will increase practices' payment under risk-based arrangements. We offer the first analy...
Published in at - Automatisierungstechnik
Für ein wettbewerbsfähiges Remanufacturing von Gebrauchtprodukten bei ungewissen Produktzuständen bedarf es einer hohen Flexibilität und Reaktionsfähigkeit. Im Rahmen dieses Artikels wird eine integrierte Steuerungsarchitektur für ein modular aufgebautes agiles Demontagesystem mit autonomer Produktbefundung und lernenden Produktionsressourcen vorge...
Published in Flexible and Printed Electronics
This review aims at introducing a vertical integration approach as a promising new driver of field-effect transistor circuits and systems, which can overcome limitations of flexible and printed electronics. A large portion of this article is dedicated to systematic categorization and illustration of important and recent demonstrations of vertically...
Published in JMIR Formative Research
Background How do health systems in the United States view the concept of merger and acquisition (M&A) in a post-COVID 19 “new normal”? How do new entrants to the market and incumbents influence horizontal and vertical integration of health systems? Traditionally, it has been argued that M&A activity is designed to reduce inequities in the market, ...
Published in Medical care
The objective of this study was to document changes in physician practice structure among surgeons who treat women with breast cancer. We merged cancer registry records from 5 large states with Medicare Part B claims to identify each surgeon who treated women with breast cancer. We added information from SK&A surveys and extensive internet searches...
