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Increasing Options: The Ticket To Work And Self-Sufficiency Program [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an avenue to employment for people with disabilities who want to join or reenter the workforce.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
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Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery in the Era of Robotics: Evolution, Eclipse, or Equilibrium?
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Minimally invasive colorectal surgery has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past three decades. Laparoscopy, once viewed with skepticism, is now firmly established as a standard approach, supported by robust randomized trials demonstrating oncologic safety and improved recovery compared to open surgery.
Amanjeet Singh +3 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Using a nationwide Japanese inpatient database, we evaluated whether broad‐spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis improves postoperative outcomes after pancreatoduodenectomy compared with narrow‐spectrum antibiotics. In propensity score–weighted analyses of 45 099 patients, broad‐spectrum prophylaxis was associated with significantly lower rates of intra ...
Hiroki Kitagawa +10 more
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Financial Services and the Informal Economy [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of formality of employment on the utilisation of financial services, using data from the October 2000 Income and Expenditure Survey and the September 2000 Labour Force Survey.
Cally Ardington, Murray Leibbrandt
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Using National Database open data from 2014 to 2023, this nationwide study visualizes age‐, sex‐, and region‐specific trends in groin hernia surgery in Japan. Laparoscopic surgery, outpatient surgery, and manual reduction were analyzed to estimate lifetime surgical burden and patterns of emergency‐related healthcare utilization at the population level.
Masanori Sato +7 more
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Choosing Health Insurance in a Dual Health Care System: The Chilean Case [PDF]
In Chile there is a public insurance system where people contribute a fixed percentage of their income, and also a private system where people pay a premium based on their personal characteristics. Using a large survey for 1996, we study the determinants
Jaime Ruiz-Tagle, Ricardo Sanhueza
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Women and Health Coverage: The Affordability Gap [PDF]
, 2007 Explores the unique barriers that women face in obtaining health insurance, paying premiums, and affording healthcare services, and maintains that future proposals for improving health policy must address these ...
Elizabeth M. Patchias, Judy Waxman
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AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from end‐of‐life (EOL) products represents a strategic opportunity to strengthen the domestic supply chain for rare earth elements. This work presents a superstructure‐based optimization framework for finding the most economical processing pathway for different EOL rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs ...
Chris Laliwala +6 more
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Turning Back the Clock: Japan’s Misguided Postal Law is Back on the Table [PDF]
On May 31, 2010, a majority of the Lower House of the National Diet of Japan approved legislation that would reverse a decade's worth of effort to fully privatize key subsidiaries of Japan Post Holdings Co. Ltd.
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Julia Muir
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Department of Veterans Affairs FY2017 Appropriations [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a range of benefits and services to veterans and eligible dependents who meet certain criteria as authorized by law.
Panangala, Sidath Viranga
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