China's New Public Health Insurance: Challenges to Health Reforms and the New Rural Co-operative Medical System (China Policy Series)

Müller, Armin

Reference

Routledge

<p>Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China’s healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government. China’s once praised public health services have deteriorated into a system driven by economic constraints, in which poor people often fail to get access, and middle-income households risk to be dragged into poverty by the rising costs of care. The New Rural Co-operative Medical System (NRCMS) was introduced to counter these tendencies and constitutes the main system of public health insurance in China today. This book outlines the nature of the system, traces the processes of its enactment and implementation, and discusses its strengths and weaknesses. It argues that the contested nature of the fields of health policy and social security has long been overlooked, and reinterprets the NRCMS as a compromise between opposing political interests. Furthermore, it argues that structural institutional misfits facilitate fiscal imbalances and a culture of non-compliance in local health policy, which distort the outcomes of the implementation and limit the effectiveness of insurance. These dynamics also raise fundamental questions regarding the effectiveness of other areas of the comprehensive New Health Reform, which China has initiated to overhaul its healthcare system.</p>

China's New Public Health Insurance (China Policy Series)

A clear and concise survey of industrial inorganic chemistry today, with special emphasis on ecology, raw material and energy use as well as sustainability issues. For this third edition the new author team has thoroughly revised and updated the existing chapters to reflect ongoing industrial processes, supported by first-hand information from chemists and engineers working in the chemical industry. New or enlarged are the chapters on alkali and alkaline earth metals, rare earth metals, technical gases and precious metals. The chapter on metals and their compounds has doubled in size, while that on semiconductor and technology materials is completely new. To facilitate orientation the authors include an introductory section to each chapter, which summarizes the most important points for a certain material or material class.

Industrial Inorganic Chemistry

Science & Math

Fröhlich, Peter

Bertau, Martin

Katzberg, Michael

Chemistry

Wiley-VCH

IX Vorwort Multimedia ist eine der interessantesten Entwicklungen, seit es Personal Compu ter gibt. Leistungsfabige BenutzeroberfUichen, wie Microsoft Windows, machen dies erst moglich. Da Multimedia auf den DOS-Rechnern, im Gegensatz zu den Macintosh-Rechnern, eine sehr junge und noch wenig bekannte Technik ist, wird die Suche nach Informationen zur Qual. Zwar werben beinahe unendlich viele Zeitschriften auf ihrer Titelseite mit dem Schlagwort Multimedia. Die Beitrage sind in der Regel sehr gut, vermitteln aber jeweils nur einen kleinen Ausschnitt aus der groBen weiten Welt der verschiedenen Medien. Nun wenn Sie also in irgend einer Weise mit den verschiedenen Medien wie Text, Sprache, Musik, Fotos oder bewegten Bildern zu tun haben, und Sie den EntschluB gefaBt haben, den Personal Computer als Zentrale dieser Medien ein zusetzen, dann sollten Sie sich ausreichend informieren. Je besser Sie informiert sind, urn so genauer konnen Sie Thre Bedtirfnisse abschiitzen und die fUr Sie richtigen Produkte auswahlen. Vielleicht sind Sie der Reiseveranstalter, der seine Angebote nicht mehr in einem Katalog sondern auf CD-Disk, bestiickt mit kurzen Filmen, dem Meerrauschen und einem gesprochenen WillkommensgruB des Hoteliers, dem Kunden naher bringen will. Ob Sie also die Synthese von Animation, Video und Ton fUr Prasentationen oder Werbung nutzen oder ob Sie als Privatperson Thre personlichen Weihnachtskarten gestalten wollen oder ab und zu ein Spiel mit qualitativ hochstehenden Bildern und guter Tonunterma lung abrufen mochten -Sie finden in diesem Buch die notigen Informationen.

Multimedia PC: Ein Navigator durch die Multimedia-Welt (German Edition)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Vieweg+Teubner Verlag

<p>Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: "Fake books" are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualisation, information or entertainment. Most of these "book simulators" are beautiful containers, which serve for storing - or hiding - approximately everything. The viewer is always confronted by the discrepancy between appearance and being, between form and function.Armin Müller has collected bookdummies of very different sizes, styles and provenances from different eras: art-historically valuable, technically sophisticated and historically exciting pieces, but also kitsch of all kinds. The imaginative and creative richness of camouflage and illusion seems to be inexhaustible.</p>

Fake Books: The Art of Bibliophilic Deceit

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Vogel, Fritz Franz

Antiques & Collectibles

Benteli

This book investigates the problem of competently  accomplishing everyday manipulation activities for  autonomous robots as a plan-based control problem. We  propose TRANER (TRAnsformational PlanNER) as a plan  transformation system for the optimization of  everyday activities. TRANER advances the  state-of-the-art in three important ways. First, it  extends concurrent reactive plan representation to  support the specification of robust and transformable  plans. Second, it proposes a library of general and  flexible plans for a household robot. Third, it  provides a suite of general transformation rules that  are capable of improving the course of activities in  important and novel ways. Comprehensive and extensive  experiments in a realistic simulation environment  show that transformational planning enables robots to  substantially improve their performance by tailoring  their course of activity to their tasks,  environments, and capabilities.

TRANER - Transformational Planner: Transformational Planning for Autonomous Household Robots Using Libraries of Robust and Flexible Plans (German Edition)

Suedwestdeutscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften

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