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Why Health Reform Will Bend the Cost Curve [PDF]
Projects the effect of national healthcare reform as proposed in the House and Senate bills on total national health expenditures and insurance premiums.
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ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel +3 more
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Background Major depressive disorder represents a major public health problem in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). Antidepressant treatment resistance remains common and costly, affecting approximately 20–50% of patients depending on the ...
Sirine Ben Othman, Mehrez Ben Nasr
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Key drivers of non-revenue water in developing countries: Insights from a multilevel study in Brazil
The increasing pressure on water resources has intensified the need to improve water supply efficiency, particularly by minimizing water loss. Non-revenue water (NRW) remains a critical issue in Brazil, with high loss levels impacting both financial ...
Cláudia Orsini Machado de Sousa +2 more
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THE RELIABILITY OF RESERVES VALUATION IN INSURANCE COMPANIES
Starting from the theory of probabilities, which represents an attempt to investigate uncertainty, insurance companies must calculate their insurance premiums in such a way as to cover all their operational expenses and obtain the expected benefit ...
Corneliu BENȚE
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Medicare, Medicaid and the Deficit Debate [PDF]
Examines 2000-10 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures; projections for 2011-20 from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Congressional Budget Office; contributing factors, including enrollment growth; and proposals for curbing ...
John Holahan, Stacey McMorrow
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ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash +4 more
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Nonparametric Predictive Inference for Discrete Lifetime Data
This paper presents nonparametric predictive inference for discrete lifetime data. While lifetimes are mostly treated as continuous random variables in statistics, there are scenarios where time observations are recorded as discrete values, for example ...
Frank P. A. Coolen +2 more
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Divulgação de trabalho: considerações sobre os doze anos do caderno de estudos
Este artigo tem o propósito de apresentar uma avaliação do periódico corrente Caderno de Estudos, atual Revista Contabilidade & Finanças - USP, publicado pela Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Contábeis, Atuariais e Financeiras -FIPECAFI, entidade de apoio
Gilberto de Andrade Martins
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Modelling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Claim Counts Using Finite Mixture Models
When modelling insurance claim count data, the actuary often observes overdispersion and an excess of zeros that may be caused by unobserved heterogeneity.
Lluís Bermúdez +2 more
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