How Well Do All Patient Refined–Diagnosis-Related Groups Explain Costs of Pediatric Cancer Chemotherapy Admissions in the United States? [PDF]
Purpose: State-based Medicaid programs have begun using All Patient Refined–Diagnosis-Related Groups (APR-DRGs) to determine hospital reimbursement rates. Medicaid provides coverage for 45% of childhood cancer admissions.
Andrew Street +7 more
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Frost-Preventing Design for Space Station Refrigerator
Different preservation temperatures for sample storage in space stations and corresponding refrigerator devices have been designed. In the below-freezing environment, frost will occur on the inner wall surface and the sealing place of the refrigerator ...
Dongcai Guo +4 more
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Pseudocryphonectria elaeocarpicola gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae, Diaporthales) causing stem blight of Elaeocarpus spp. in China [PDF]
Cryphonectriaceae is a diaporthalean family containing important plant pathogens of which Cryphonectria parasitica is the most notorious one. An emerging stem blight disease on Elaeocarpus apiculatus (Elaeocarpaceae) and E.
Hua-Yi Huang +4 more
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Diversity and Utilization of Dioscorea Spp. Tuber as Alternative Food Source in Nganjuk Regency, East Java [PDF]
Dioscorea spp. is local tuberous food crop that has potential as alternative food source to support food security program in Indonesia. Exploration study and collecting mission subjected to Dioscorea spp. have been conducted in Nganjuk Regency. The study
Hapsari, L. (Lia) +1 more
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Comparative Study on Beneficiation Test of a Low Grade Manganese Carbonate Ore
According to characteristics of a low-grade manganese carbonate ore, it made a respective use of high gradient magnetic separation and shaker gravity separation, as well as experimental study on flotation process of the ore.Experimental results showed ...
Kaizhi Yang +4 more
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Capabilities and utilities [PDF]
This paper deals with the problem of looking for resource allocation mechanisms which would be accepted as just in Sen's capabilities framework. We start by suggesting a way of simplifying Sen's idea of capability by using acapability index which measures the ability of a person to function. Then we look for mechanisms providing allocations which could
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Anomalies: Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility [PDF]
In this column, we discuss a version of the utility maximization hypothesis that can be tested—and we find that it is false. We review empirical challenges to utility maximization, which return to the old question of whether preferences optimize the experience of outcomes.
Daniel Kahneman, Richard H. Thaler
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Gema Requena,1 Daniel Dedman,2 Jennifer K Quint,3 Rebecca E Ghosh,2 Rachael Williams,2 Jeanne M Pimenta1 1Respiratory Epidemiology, GSK, Brentford, Middlesex, UK; 2Clinical Practice Research Datalink, MHRA, London, UK; 3National Heart and Lung Institute,
Requena G +5 more
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Rice Flag Leaf Physiology, Organ and Canopy Temperature in Response to Water Stress
Using two rice cultivars, the effect of severe, mild and no water stress, W3, W2 and W1, respectively, on flag leaf physiology, the ecological characteristics of canopy and organ temperatures were studied in 2008 and 2009.
Chuan Yan +6 more
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Trends in Alcohol Services Utilization from 1991–1992 to 2001–2002: Ethnic Group Differences in the U.S. Population [PDF]
Background: During the early 1990s in the United States, changes to the provision and financing of alcohol treatment services included reductions in inpatient treatment services and in private sector spending for treatment.
Caetano, Raul, Chartier, Karen G.
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