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General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals and Financially Vulnerable Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Examines whether specialty hospitals draw well-insured patients away from general and safety-net hospitals, reducing their ability to cross-subsidize less profitable services and uncompensated care, in three cities.
Ann Tynan   +4 more
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Shining Light On Shadow Stacks

open access: yes, 2019
Control-Flow Hijacking attacks are the dominant attack vector against C/C++ programs. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) solutions mitigate these attacks on the forward edge,i.e., indirect calls through function pointers and virtual calls.
Burow, Nathan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding the Stochastic Nature of Process Parameter Development of Blown Powder Laser Beam Directed Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing of Pure Molybdenum

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Identified through the use of statistical design of experiments and metallographic investigation, this study exposes the stochastic origins of intergranular cracks in blown powder laser beam directed energy deposition additive manufacturing of pure molybdenum. It further demonstrates a successful crack mitigation approach with direct correlation to the
Nathaniel J. Lies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

California Health Care Market Report 2005 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Examines relationships among providers, physicians, hospitals, and patients, differences in the way physicians and hospitals organize, and factors that have prompted hospitals, medical groups, and health plans to redefine their ...
Allan Baumgarten
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Tuning the Dielectric Properties of Individual Clay Nanosheets by Interlayer Composition: Toward Nano‐Electret Materials

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The dielectric properties of clays are studied on the level of individual monolayers and functional double stacks. The material breakdown characteristics and charge storage performance are analyzed. For illustration, a defined charge pattern representing a cuneiform character is produced, written into a microscopic clay tile, referencing the origins of
Sebastian Gödrich   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
wiley   +1 more source

The Employer-based Health-Insurance System (EBI) Is At Risk: What We Must Do About It [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This report presents the first two parts of CED's research and covers the scope of the crisis in health care and the options for fixing the system. A third part offering CED's recommendations, Quality, Affordable Health Care for All: Moving Beyond the ...

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Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A population-based cohort study of mitochondrial disease and mental health conditions in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesOrphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Background Mitochondrial disease has been linked to mental health disorder in clinical cohorts and post-mortem studies. However, a lack of population-level studies examining the relationship between mitochondrial disease and mental health has resulted in
Laura C. Rosella   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global and Episodic Bundling: An Overview and Considerations for Medicaid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Examines implementation issues for two payment strategies under which a group of providers receives a single payment per patient for a predefined time period for a predefined set of services and which involve risk adjustment and quality ...
Gwyn Volk, James Pettersson
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