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What Does It Take for a Family to Afford to Pay for Health Care? [PDF]
, 2007 Addresses how much Californians can afford to pay for health care based on their current insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses as well as other basic necessities, such as housing, child care, transportation, food, and ...
David Carroll +5 more
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Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National UniversityThe article examines the role of outsourcing in accounting and taxation as an effective tool for optimizing the costs of enterprises in the context of anti-crisis management. An assessment of the state of outsourcing companies in the field of accounting,
Tetiana Kuzmin +3 more
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Curvature‐Tuned Friction at Electrified Ionic Liquid Interfaces
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Graphene curvature plays a key role in friction electrotunability at single‐asperity contacts lubricated by ionic liquids. A 9 nm radius yields stronger tunability than larger radii, with distinct friction coefficients at low and high loads indicating a shift in the slippage plane.
Wei Song +6 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.An original method is presented for producing artificial spider silk fibers with magnetic and magnetomechanical responsiveness, which consists in coating them with a nanometer‐thick layer of FeCo alloy by sputtering deposition. The challenge of combining organic materials and inorganic magnetic nanostructures is addressed, thus taking a step forward ...
Filippo Lanaro +5 more
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Forecasting China's Medical Insurance Policy for Urban Employees Using a Microsimulation Model [PDF]
This paper uses microsimulation techniques to model individual's medical behavior and forecast the effects of different settings of medical insurance policies.
Linping Xiong, Xiuqiang Ma
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Adhesions’ high occurrence rates and high morbidity render them a critical challenge to be addressed. Current prevention methods, such as physical barriers, have many limitations, resulting in inconsistent safety and efficacy. This study demonstrates the potential for sprayable polymeric materials as an adhesion barrier.
Robert J. Morris III +7 more
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1996 Tapping water sources in the American West exacts a high toll on the pocketbook, according to a report released on December 10 by a Washington, D.C.‐based nonprofit research foundation. Researchers from the foundation Resources for the Future (RFF) stated that the value of water in the West is higher than in the rest of the country, largely because of ...
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Medicare Advantage: Options for Standardizing Benefits and Information to Improve Consumer Choice [PDF]
, 2008 Describes the complex choices Medicare Advantage enrollees face. Discusses whether providing better information and decision-support tools, limiting out-of-pocket expenses, or standardizing benefits and cost-sharing would lead to better-informed ...
Ellen O'Brien, Jack Hoadley
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A versatile approach is presented for fabricating smart multifunctional textiles by integrating thermo‐fluorescent carbon dot/polymer nanocomposite coatings with 3D‐printed interlocked architectures. The fabrics exhibit temperature‐responsive fluorescence, durable hydrophobicity, strong antibacterial and antioxidant activity, and enhanced UV protection.
Poushali Das +8 more
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Heterodox production and cost theory of the business enterprise [PDF]
Heterodox economists long complained about having no systematic alternative to neoclassical production and cost theory. This paper deals with this complaint.
Jo, Tae-Hee, Lee, Frederic
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