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- Does Competition Between Hospitals Improve the Quality of Care? Hospital Death Rates and the NHS Internal Market
- Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. The paper examines whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following heart attacks. Using data...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- The Second Moments Matter: The Response of Bank Lending Behavior to Macroeconomic Uncertainty
- This paper investigates whether macroeconomic uncertainty could distort banks' allocation of loanable funds. To provide a road- map for our empirical investigation, the paper presents a simple framework which demonstrates that lower uncertainty about the return from lending should lead to a more unequal distribution of lending across banks as...
- White papers 2004-05-13
- Contracts and Digital Content
- Copyright law goes back to the time of the U.S. constitution and it is regarded as an important cornerstone of successful intellectual property protection. However, recently it has been criticized strongly. Moreover, modern information and communication technology makes it increasingly difficult to actually protect the copyright of a digital good....
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Digital Technology and the Allocation of Ownership in the Music Industry
- This paper analyses the innovation process of music goods from an organizational point of view and the effects of digital technology on the allocation of property rights. The paper applies the property rights theory framework introduced by Grossman-Hart-Moore GHM to the music industry and studies the contractual relationship between artists...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Action for Excellence
- The University will implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research - intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all backgrounds. This paper sets out series of actions necessary to achieve the...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Delegating Classifiers
- A sensible use of classifiers must be based on the estimated reliability of their predictions. A cautious classifier would delegate the difficult or uncertain predictions to other, possibly more specialised, classifiers. In this paper the author's analyse and develop this idea of delegating classifiers in a systematic way. First, the...
- White papers 2004-04-22
- Delegation of Contracting in the Private Provision of Public Services
- The author uses an incomplete-contract approach to compare contracting out by a public sector agency with the delegation of contracting out to a Public-Private Partnership PPP that is a joint venture between private and sector agents. The PPP maximizes a linear combination of profit and social benefit. Such delegation may...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) With Internet Access
- Fourteen initial teacher training students studying to become science teachers have been given internet enabled Personal Digital Assistants PDAs in a pilot study to assess whether PDAs have the potential to support them in their own teaching and learning, and in their role as trainee teachers. Initial use of the...
- White papers 2005-10-18
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- University of Bristol collaborates with Smiths Aerospace and University of Oxford to develop innovative composites technology
- CHELTENHAM, United Kingdom -- Aeroplane wings that change shape in mid-air may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but radical new aircraft designs like this could become a reality thanks to a five-year strategic partnership formally launched today between the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and Smiths...
- Research articles 2007-04-16
- Yale recognizes vital role of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in biomedical research and education.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 October 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale recognizes vital role of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in biomedical research and educationC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10072004 New Haven, Conn. - The Yale School of Medicine recently hosted a special program of neuroscience lectures and unveiled...
- Research articles 2004-10-07
- Wi-LAN Acquires OFDM Patents from Bristol University
- Wi-LAN Inc. (or "Wi-LAN") (TSX: WIN), a leading technology licensing company, today announced it has acquired six important OFDM patents relating to Wi-Fi and WiMAX from the University of Bristol in England for a total consideration of $300,000 (U.S.).
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AMERSHAM HEALTHCARE, AND BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB SIGN AGREEMENT INVOLVING TEST FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; New imaging technique could speed detection, help evaluate new treatments, and receive expedited review at FDA
- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--HealthWire--March 29, 1996-- Medi-Physics Inc., Amersham Healthcare announced today a licensing agreement between its UK-based parent, Amersham International plc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY), and the University of Oxford, one of Britain's premier universities and medical centers. The agreement will likely result in Medi-Physics petitioning the U.S. Food...
- Research articles 1996-03-29
- ClusterVision, IBM and ClearSpeed Consortium to Build Multi-Million Pound Supercomputer Facility for University of Bristol
- BRISTOL, United Kingdom -- New System is Expected to Be One of the Fastest University Computers in the UK and One of the Top 100 Computers of Its Type in the World
- Research articles 2006-06-06
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Licenses University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research.
- Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- University of the West of England Student Village, Bristol
- CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE Building Category Buchan Concrete Solutions was awarded the subcontract to provide the precast concrete frame solution for the new £77million Student Village at the University of the West of England UWE. At the start of the construction period, main contractor Curillion had incurred a two-week...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Composites Testing and Model Identification International Conference - Call for Papers - 21st-23rd September 2004 - University of Bristol, U.K.
- January 9, 2004 - The conference will focus on all issues related to identifying parameters for modelling the mechanical and physical behaviour of composite materials. Particular attention will be given to innovative identification procedures, intera January 9, 2004 - The conference will focus on all issues...
- Research articles 2004-01-19
- New vaccine trials bring hope of cure for diabetes: report
- LONDON AFP — A vaccine against the most serious form of diabetes is to be tested on humans for the first time, raising the prospect that a cure could be widely available within 10 years, The Times reported. Eighteen sufferers of type 1 diabetes, which usually appears before the...
- Research articles 2004-12-12
- Dedication of newly renovated house on Bristol Street takes place tomorrow.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 September 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Dedication of newly renovated house on Bristol Street takes place tomorrowC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09092004 New Haven, Conn. - A newly renovated two-family home in New Haven at 65 Bristol Street, the joint effort of Yale...
- Research articles 2004-09-10
- 600,000 Euro grant from Anritsu helps Bristol University to acquire 43 Gbit/s tester for optical communications research.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 October 2002-ANRITSU: 600,000 Euro grant from Anritsu helps Bristol University to acquire 43 Gbit/s tester for optical communications research C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10032002 The Optics Group of Bristol University's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has...
- Research articles 2002-10-03
- Repligen announces district court decision in inventorship dispute with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
- Repligen Corporation (Waltham, MA) announced that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has issued a ruling in the lawsuit that Repligen and The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) are prosecuting against Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York, NY) for correction of inventorship...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
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