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Realizing Health Reform's Potential: When Unemployed Means Uninsured: The Toll of Job Loss on Health Coverage, and How the Affordable Care Act Will Help [PDF]

, 2011
Examines how the 2010 healthcare reform will significantly expand affordable health coverage options for the unemployed who cannot afford COBRA. Calls for re-establishing COBRA premium subsidies to bridge coverage gaps until it is implemented in ...
Michelle M. Doty, Ruth Robertson, Sara R. Collins, Tracy Garber   +3 more
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Reclaimed Well Sites on Salt Affected Soils: Electrical Conductivity and Sodium Adsorption Ratio as Plant Community Response Indicators

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Salt affected soils are common worldwide, resulting from natural causes and anthropogenic activities. Saline and sodic soils often occur in association with oil and gas production, impacting soil properties which can impede vegetation growth and development.
Laura Bony, Amalesh Dhar, Sarah R. Wilkinson, M. Anne Naeth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting

Toxins, 2017
The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species
Nadya Panagides, Timothy N.W. Jackson, Maria P. Ikonomopoulou, Kevin Arbuckle, Rudolf Pretzler, Daryl C. Yang, Syed A. Ali, Ivan Koludarov, James Dobson, Brittany Sanker, Angelique Asselin, Renan C. Santana, Iwan Hendrikx, Harold van der Ploeg, Jeremie Tai-A-Pin, Romilly van den Bergh, Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Freek J. Vonk, Arno Naude, Morné A. Strydom, Louis Jacobsz, Nathan Dunstan, Marc Jaeger, Wayne C. Hodgson, John Miles, Bryan G. Fry   +25 more
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Solving the G-problems in less than 500 iterations: Improved efficient constrained optimization by surrogate modeling and adaptive parameter control [PDF]

, 2015
Constrained optimization of high-dimensional numerical problems plays an important role in many scientific and industrial applications. Function evaluations in many industrial applications are severely limited and no analytical information about ...
Bagheri, Samineh, Bäck, Thomas, Emmerich, Michael, Konen, Wolfgang   +3 more
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When Politics Shapes Administration: Bureaucratic Autonomy, Policy Role Separation, and Organizational Capacity in an Institutionally Weak Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of administrative autonomy and the separation of roles in public policy on organizational capacity within hybrid public administration systems, particularly in Colombia. It explores the dynamics between elected officials and civil servants, focusing on how the division of responsibilities and the autonomy granted
Camilo Ignacio González, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

InP/InGaAs Photodetector on SOI Photonic Circuitry

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2010
We present an InP-based membrane p-i-n photodetector on a silicon-on-insulator sample containing a Si-wiring photonic circuit that is suitable for use in optical interconnections on Si integrated circuits (ICs).
P. R. A. Binetti, X. J. M. Leijtens, T. de Vries, Y. S. Oei, L. Di Cioccio, J.-M. Fedeli, C. Lagahe, J. Van Campenhout, D. Van Thourhout, P. J. van Veldhoven, R. Nötzel, M. K. Smit   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maintaining Health Insurance During a Recession: Likely COBRA Eligibility [PDF]

, 2009
Assesses laid-off workers' eligibility and financial ability to extend employer-sponsored insurance through COBRA. Recommends extending COBRA and providing premium assistance, as well as expanding Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance ...
Cathy Schoen, Michelle M. Doty, Sara R. Collins, Sheila D. Rustgi   +3 more
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Longitudinal changes in peritoneal solute transport rate and the impact of lower glucose degradation product glucose dialysates

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 471-478, June 2025.
Abstract Introduction Peritoneal solute transfer rates (PSTR) are reported to increase with time. Changes in PSTR were reviewed in long‐term peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients to determine whether lower glucose degradation products (low GDP) dialysates prevented an increase in PSTR. Methods PSTR was determined with a 4‐h peritoneal equilibrium test with
Andrew Davenport
wiley   +1 more source

Policy and Practice Brief: Expanding Health Insurance Options; A Framework for Advising Social Security Beneficiaries of Their Rights Under Private Insurance Contracts [PDF]

, 2001
This brief provides a framework for advising Social Security beneficiaries of their rights under private insurance contracts. Reviewed are basic insurance concepts; coverage issues; pre-existing condition clauses; COBRA; ERISA; and, appeal ...
Sheldon, Jr., James R
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Formulating Cognitive Functioning to Guide Personalised Treatment for People Diagnosed With Mental Disorders

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Objective and subjective cognitive impairment are highly prevalent in mental disorders and transdiagnostic phenomena. Cognitive impairment is associated with poorer functional outcomes and therefore requires treatment, but little guidance is available for clinicians.
Kelly Allott, Shayden Bryce, Katie Douglas, Alexandra Stainton, Stephen J. Wood, Christopher R. Bowie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source