This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the 2009 French Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) classification reform, which introduced four severity levels within each DRG, ranging from low to very high, with corresponding increases in fixed-price ...
Carine Milcent
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Background Proprietary spearmint extract (PSE) containing a minimum 14.5% rosmarinic acid and 24% total phenolic content, has evinced positive effects on cognition in individuals aged 50–70 with memory impairment after chronic supplementation. To address
Paul H. Falcone +11 more
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Agricultural Producer Support Policy in Iran and Selected Countries [PDF]
Agricultural policies in Iran have aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in food productions through the government various policies. The aim of this paper is to examine the current level of protection which may exist in agricultural sector in Iran and ...
Vaezi, L., Yazdani, Saeed
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Divergence or Convergence in Research and Development and Innovation Between ‘East’ and ‘West’? [PDF]
Book description: Research suggests that innovation and technological change are crucial for the economic recovery of the former centrally planned countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Radosevic, S
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Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market [PDF]
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising levels of in-work poverty and insecurity. Yet successive Governments have stressed that paid work is the route to inclusion, focussing attention on the ...
Aldridge H +32 more
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Plantago asiatica Seed Extracts Alleviated Blood Pressure in Phase I–Spontaneous Hypertension Rats
Arterial pressure of each new breeding spontaneous Phase-1 hypertension (P1-HT) rat was recorded for 5 min by intravascular femoral artery catheter that served as a reference value prior to treatment.
Yaw-Syan Fu +5 more
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Psychiatric morbidity in older people with moderate and severe learning disability (mental retardation). Part I: development and reliability of the patient interview (the PAS-ADD) [PDF]
This paper describes the development of the PAS-ADD, a semistructured clinical interview for use specifically with patients with learning disabilities, based on items drawn from the PSE. The PAS-ADD includes a number of novel features including: parallel
Babor +21 more
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Functional properties of PSE (Pale, Soft, Exudative) broiler meat in the production of mortadella
This work was carried out in order to evaluate whether the functional properties of broiler meat are affected by the factors that lead to PSE (Pale, Soft, Exudative).
Cassiana Kissel +3 more
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Leveraging legacy codes to distributed problem solving environments: A web service approach [PDF]
This paper describes techniques used to leverage high performance legacy codes as CORBA components to a distributed problem solving environment. It first briefly introduces the software architecture adopted by the environment.
Huang, Y +5 more
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Leadership in Singleton Congestion Games: What is Hard and What is Easy
We study the problem of computing Stackelberg equilibria Stackelberg games whose underlying structure is in congestion games, focusing on the case where each player can choose a single resource (a.k.a.
Castiglioni, Matteo +3 more
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