When assessing a health insurance scheme designed to reach the community, the assessment should cover the level of financial protection provided to its members. Financial protection is measured by the extent of protection a household obtains if subjected to catastrophic health expenditures....

Automation based electrohydraulic servo systems have a wide range of applications in nowadays industrial systems. However, they still suffer from several nonlinearities like deadband in electrohydraulic valves, hysteresis, stick-slip friction in valves and cylinders....