Sample records for functional expense statements

  1. 29 CFR 4204.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... income or expenses), as presented in an audited financial statement or, in the absence of such statement, in an unaudited financial statement, each prepared in conformance with generally accepted accounting... expenses and all other assets which, under generally accepted accounting principles, are deemed intangible...

  2. 46 CFR 232.5 - Income Statement Accounts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... ACTIVITIES UNIFORM FINANCIAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS Income Statement § 232.5 Income Statement Accounts. (a... Expense Accounts. The income and expense accounts shall show for each reporting period the amount of money... accounted for to facilitate reporting the source of revenue by trade route or service area. (iii) All other...

  3. Internal Controls and Compliance With Laws and Regulations for Expense Account Line Items on the FY 1996 Defense Business Operations Fund Consolidated Financial Statements.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1998-03-04

    issues discussed in this report. The primary audit objective was to determine whether the expenses on the FY 1996 DBOF consolidated financial statements were...34 November 16, 1993. In addition, we determined whether controls were adequate to ensure that the consolidated financial statements were free of material

  4. 13 CFR 307.14 - Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... RLF Plan to ensure effective use of the RLF as a strategic financing tool. (c) RLF Income and Expense... for administrative costs in a six-month (6) Reporting Period must submit to EDA a completed Income and Expense Statement (Form ED-209I or any successor form) for that Reporting Period in electronic format...

  5. 13 CFR 307.14 - Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... RLF Plan to ensure effective use of the RLF as a strategic financing tool. (c) RLF Income and Expense... for administrative costs in a six-month (6) Reporting Period must submit to EDA a completed Income and Expense Statement (Form ED-209I or any successor form) for that Reporting Period in electronic format...

  6. 13 CFR 307.14 - Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... RLF Plan to ensure effective use of the RLF as a strategic financing tool. (c) RLF Income and Expense... for administrative costs in a six-month (6) Reporting Period must submit to EDA a completed Income and Expense Statement (Form ED-209I or any successor form) for that Reporting Period in electronic format...

  7. 13 CFR 307.14 - Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement. 307.14 Section 307.14 Business Credit and Assistance ECONOMIC... RLF Plan to ensure effective use of the RLF as a strategic financing tool. (c) RLF Income and Expense...

  8. Reading and understanding financial statements.

    PubMed

    White, Joseph P

    2005-01-01

    Feeling comfortable reading and understanding financial statements is critical to the success of healthcare executives and physicians involved in management. Businesses use three primary financial statements: a balance sheet represents the equation, Assets = Liabilities + Equity; an income statement represents the equation, Revenues - Expenses = Net Income; a statement of cash flows reports all sources and uses of cash during the represented period. The balance sheet expresses financial indicators at one particular moment in time, whereas the income statement and the statement of cash flows show activity that occurred over a stretch of time. Additional information is disclosed in attached footnotes and other supplementary materials. There are two ways to prepare financial statements. Cash-basis accounting recognizes revenue when it is received and expenses when they are paid. Accrual-basis accounting recognizes revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred. Although cash-basis is acceptable, periodically using the accrual method reveals important information about receivables and liabilities that could otherwise remain hidden. Become more engaged with your financial statements by spending time reading them, tracking key performance indicators, and asking accountants and financial advisors questions. This will help you better understand your business and build a successful future.

  9. 14 CFR Section 22 - General Reporting Instructions

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... aircraft engines A X X X P-1.1 Statement of operations SA (2) NA NA P-1.2 Statement of operations Q (1) X X P-1(a) Interim operations report M X X X P-2 Notes to RSPA Form 41 report Q (1) X X P-5.1 Aircraft operating expenses Q(1), SA(2) X NA NA P-5.2 Aircraft operating expenses Q NA X X P-6 Operating expenses by...

  10. 14 CFR Section 22 - General Reporting Instructions

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... aircraft engines A X X X P-1.1 Statement of operations SA (2) NA NA P-1.2 Statement of operations Q (1) X X P-1(a) Interim operations report M X X X P-2 Notes to RSPA Form 41 report Q (1) X X P-5.1 Aircraft operating expenses Q(1), SA(2) X NA NA P-5.2 Aircraft operating expenses Q NA X X P-6 Operating expenses by...

  11. 14 CFR Section 22 - General Reporting Instructions

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... aircraft engines A X X X P-1.1 Statement of operations SA (2) NA NA P-1.2 Statement of operations Q (1) X X P-1(a) Interim operations report M X X X P-2 Notes to RSPA Form 41 report Q (1) X X P-5.1 Aircraft operating expenses Q(1), SA(2) X NA NA P-5.2 Aircraft operating expenses Q NA X X P-6 Operating expenses by...

  12. 14 CFR 22 - General Reporting Instructions

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... aircraft engines A X X X P-1.1 Statement of operations SA (2) NA NA P-1.2 Statement of operations Q (1) X X P-1(a) Interim operations report M X X X P-2 Notes to RSPA Form 41 report Q (1) X X P-5.1 Aircraft operating expenses Q(1), SA(2) X NA NA P-5.2 Aircraft operating expenses Q NA X X P-6 Operating expenses by...

  13. 12 CFR 360.4 - Administrative expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Administrative expenses. 360.4 Section 360.4 Banks and Banking FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION REGULATIONS AND STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY RESOLUTION AND RECEIVERSHIP RULES § 360.4 Administrative expenses. The priority for administrative expenses...

  14. 13 CFR 307.14 - Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Revolving Loan Fund semi-annual report and Income and Expense Statement. 307.14 Section 307.14 Business Credit and Assistance ECONOMIC...) any modifications to the RLF Plan to ensure effective use of the RLF as a strategic financing tool. (c...

  15. Report: Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Statements with Independent Auditor's Report

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Examination of the balance sheet of the Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program as of June 30, 2001, the related statement of revenues, expenses, and changes in retained earnings, and the statement of 2001 cash flows.

  16. 9 CFR 203.5 - Statement with respect to market agencies paying the expenses of livestock buyers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... commission basis, to pay certain of the business or personal expenses incurred by buyers attending livestock... commission basis, to pay, directly or indirectly, any personal or business expenses of livestock buyers... agencies paying the expenses of livestock buyers. 203.5 Section 203.5 Animals and Animal Products GRAIN...

  17. FASB's ASU 2011-7 changes financial statement reporting requirements.

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    Reinstein, Alan; Churyk, Natalie Tatiana

    2012-02-01

    FASB's new Accounting Standards Update 2011-07 will change how healthcare entities accumulate and report major portions of their financial statements, including patient revenues, net accounts receivables, and bad-debt expenses. Healthcare entities now must reclassify their provisions for bad debts associated with patient service revenue from an operating expense to a deduction from patient service revenue (net of contractual allowances and discounts). International Financial Reporting Standards do not require healthcare entities to comply with this new standard.

  18. 17 CFR 270.3a-8 - Certain research and development companies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... and development expenses as defined in FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 2, Accounting for Research and Development Costs, as currently in effect or as it may be subsequently revised..., except that the issuer shall consolidate its financial statements with the financial statements of any...

  19. 18 CFR 346.2 - Material in support of initial rates or change in rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    .... This statement must summarize the total cost of service for a carrier (operating and maintenance... in paragraphs (c) (2) through (7) of this section. (2) Statement B—operation and maintenance expense. This statement must set forth the operation, maintenance, administration and general, and depreciation...

  20. 18 CFR 346.2 - Material in support of initial rates or change in rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    .... This statement must summarize the total cost of service for a carrier (operating and maintenance... in paragraphs (c) (2) through (7) of this section. (2) Statement B—operation and maintenance expense. This statement must set forth the operation, maintenance, administration and general, and depreciation...

  1. 18 CFR 346.2 - Material in support of initial rates or change in rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    .... This statement must summarize the total cost of service for a carrier (operating and maintenance... in paragraphs (c) (2) through (7) of this section. (2) Statement B—operation and maintenance expense. This statement must set forth the operation, maintenance, administration and general, and depreciation...

  2. 18 CFR 346.2 - Material in support of initial rates or change in rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    .... This statement must summarize the total cost of service for a carrier (operating and maintenance... in paragraphs (c) (2) through (7) of this section. (2) Statement B—operation and maintenance expense. This statement must set forth the operation, maintenance, administration and general, and depreciation...

  3. Report: South Carolina Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report, June 30, 2002

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Report #2003-1-00138, September 17, 2003. We have audited the balance sheet of the SCDWSRF Program as of June 30, 2002, the related statement of revenues, expenses, and changes in fund equity, and the statement of cash flows for the year then ended.

  4. North Dakota University System Annual Financial Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2007

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    North Dakota University System, 2007

    2007-01-01

    This report provides financial data for the North Dakota University System (the "System") for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. The Management Discussion and Analysis; the Statement of Net Assets; the Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets; and the Statement of Cash Flows provide information on the System as a…

  5. Report: State of Utah Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report, June 30, 2002

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Report #2003-1-00110, June 3, 2003.Audit of the net assets statement of the Utah Dept of Env Quality Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Prog as of June 30, 2002, and the statements of revenues, expenses and changes in fund net assets, and 2002 cash flows.

  6. 7 CFR 1214.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CHRISTMAS TREE PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and..., and the unexpended budget. (b) Each financial statement shall be submitted to the Secretary within 45...

  7. 7 CFR 1214.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CHRISTMAS TREE PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and..., and the unexpended budget. (b) Each financial statement shall be submitted to the Secretary within 45...

  8. 7 CFR 1214.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CHRISTMAS TREE PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and..., and the unexpended budget. (b) Each financial statement shall be submitted to the Secretary within 45...

  9. 26 CFR 601.804 - Reimbursements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... STATEMENT OF PROCEDURAL RULES Tax Counseling for the Elderly § 601.804 Reimbursements. (a) General. When... or providing tax return assistance and to program sponsors for reimbursement of overhead expenses..., and accounting and financial control systems. (b) Direct, reasonable, and prudent expenses...

  10. 9 CFR 203.5 - Statement with respect to market agencies paying the expenses of livestock buyers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... sales conducted by such market agencies, such as, expenses for meals, lodging, travel, entertainment and... competition between similarly engaged market agencies and results in undue and unreasonable cost burdens on...

  11. 7 CFR 1206.41 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 10 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Financial statements. 1206.41 Section 1206.41 Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING... INFORMATION Mango Promotion, Research, and Information Order Definitions Expenses and Assessments § 1206.41...

  12. Asphalt, Fleets, Bricks, and Mortar.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Green, Tim; Williamson, Margie E.; Endris, William L., Jr.

    2000-01-01

    The new reporting model propounded in Governmental Accounting Board Statement No. 34 dictates that consumption of capital assets be reported through a charge in the governmentwide statement of activities for depreciation expense. The present method of "rolling forward" capital asset amounts will not suffice. (MLH)

  13. Expensing stock options: a fair-value approach.

    PubMed

    Kaplan, Robert S; Palepu, Krishna G

    2003-12-01

    Now that companies such as General Electric and Citigroup have accepted the premise that employee stock options are an expense, the debate is shifting from whether to report options on income statements to how to report them. The authors present a new accounting mechanism that maintains the rationale underlying stock option expensing while addressing critics' concerns about measurement error and the lack of reconciliation to actual experience. A procedure they call fair-value expensing adjusts and eventually reconciles cost estimates made at grant date with subsequent changes in the value of the options, and it does so in a way that eliminates forecasting and measurement errors over time. The method captures the chief characteristic of stock option compensation--that employees receive part of their compensation in the form of a contingent claim on the value they are helping to produce. The mechanism involves creating entries on both the asset and equity sides of the balance sheet. On the asset side, companies create a prepaid-compensation account equal to the estimated cost of the options granted; on the owners'-equity side, they create a paid-in capital stock-option account for the same amount. The prepaid-compensation account is then expensed through the income statement, and the stock option account is adjusted on the balance sheet to reflect changes in the estimated fair value of the granted options. The amortization of prepaid compensation is added to the change in the option grant's value to provide the total reported expense of the options grant for the year. At the end of the vesting period, the company uses the fair value of the vested option to make a final adjustment on the income statement to reconcile any difference between that fair value and the total of the amounts already reported.

  14. SOP 98-5 brings uniformity to reporting start-up costs.

    PubMed

    Luecke, R W; Meeting, D T

    1999-08-01

    The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued Statement of Position (SOP) No. 98-5, Reporting on the Costs of Start-Up Activities, in April 1998 to provide organizations with guidance on how to report start-up and organization costs. Because some companies were expensing start-up costs while other companies were capitalizing start-up costs with a variety of periods over which to amortize costs, it was difficult to compare companies' financial statements. SOP No. 98-5 will bring uniformity to the treatment of start-up and organization costs by dictating that these costs be expensed as incurred. AICPA's Accounting Standards Executive Committee adopted an intentionally broad definition of start-up costs to capture the vast majority of costs associated with starting up an organization. SOP No. 98-5 takes effect for financial statements for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1998, but can be applied earlier for fiscal years for which financial statements have not been issued.

  15. Are You Ready To Display Depreciation?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bosserman, David C.

    2000-01-01

    Addresses issues raised for public colleges and universities as a result of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) requirements concerning inclusion of depreciation on an institution's Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets. Provides a sample impact analysis and financial statements for a hypothetical university to…

  16. 75 FR 26922 - Magnesium Metal From the Russian Federation: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-05-13

    ... AVISMA calculated based on the amounts reported in AVISMA's 2008 fiscal-year audited consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. For more... indirect selling expenses related to commercial activity in the United States. See also Statement of...

  17. 12 CFR 611.1255 - Exit fee calculation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... statements, as of the termination date, must be independently audited by a qualified public accountant. (4.... Related expenses include, but are not limited to, legal services, accounting services, tax services... of current and deferred tax expenses, if any, due to the termination. (iii) Add to assets the dollar...

  18. 19 CFR 212.12 - Documentation of fees and expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 3 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Documentation of fees and expenses. 212.12 Section 212.12 Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION INVESTIGATIONS OF UNFAIR PRACTICES..., project or similar matter, for which an award is sought. A separate itemized statement shall be submitted...

  19. 48 CFR 1433.104 - Protests to GAO.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... report as required by FAR 33.104(a)(3). (2) The SOL will furnish promptly GAO's written notice of the... expense or difficulty in performance. If appropriate, the report shall contain a statement regarding any... difficulties or additional expense to the Government. The contracting activity shall submit the CO's report to...

  20. 48 CFR 1433.104 - Protests to GAO.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... report as required by FAR 33.104(a)(3). (2) The SOL will furnish promptly GAO's written notice of the... expense or difficulty in performance. If appropriate, the report shall contain a statement regarding any... difficulties or additional expense to the Government. The contracting activity shall submit the CO's report to...

  1. 48 CFR 1433.104 - Protests to GAO.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... report as required by FAR 33.104(a)(3). (2) The SOL will furnish promptly GAO's written notice of the... expense or difficulty in performance. If appropriate, the report shall contain a statement regarding any... difficulties or additional expense to the Government. The contracting activity shall submit the CO's report to...

  2. Estimating costs of programme services and products using information provided in standard financial statements.

    PubMed

    Ellwein, L B; Thulasiraj, R D; Boulter, A R; Dhittal, S P

    1998-01-01

    The financial viability of programme services and product offerings requires that revenue exceeds expenses. Revenue includes payments for services and products as well as donor cash and in-kind contributions. Expenses reflect consumption of purchased or contributed time and materials and utilization (depreciation) of physical plant facilities and equipment. Standard financial reports contain this revenue and expense information, complemented when necessary by valuation and accounting of in-kind contributions. Since financial statements are prepared using consistent and accepted accounting practices, year-to-year and organization-to-organization comparisons can be made. The use of such financial information is illustrated in this article by determining the unit cost of cataract surgery in two hospitals in Nepal. The proportion of unit cost attributed to personnel, medical supplies, administrative materials, and depreciation varied significantly by institution. These variations are accounted for by examining differences in operational structure and capacity utilization.

  3. Estimating costs of programme services and products using information provided in standard financial statements.

    PubMed Central

    Ellwein, L. B.; Thulasiraj, R. D.; Boulter, A. R.; Dhittal, S. P.

    1998-01-01

    The financial viability of programme services and product offerings requires that revenue exceeds expenses. Revenue includes payments for services and products as well as donor cash and in-kind contributions. Expenses reflect consumption of purchased or contributed time and materials and utilization (depreciation) of physical plant facilities and equipment. Standard financial reports contain this revenue and expense information, complemented when necessary by valuation and accounting of in-kind contributions. Since financial statements are prepared using consistent and accepted accounting practices, year-to-year and organization-to-organization comparisons can be made. The use of such financial information is illustrated in this article by determining the unit cost of cataract surgery in two hospitals in Nepal. The proportion of unit cost attributed to personnel, medical supplies, administrative materials, and depreciation varied significantly by institution. These variations are accounted for by examining differences in operational structure and capacity utilization. PMID:9868836

  4. Report: Final Audit of Financial Statements of Nevada Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the year ended June 30, 2001

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Report #2003-1-00048, Jan 21, 2003. The Program’s financial statements are presented as an enterprise fund using the accrual method of accounting whereby revenues are recorded when earned and expenses are recorded when the related liability is incurred.

  5. 41 CFR 302-2.20 - What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 4 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement? 302-2.20 Section 302-2.20 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal... knowledge, no third party has accepted duplicate reimbursement for your relocation expenses. The duplicate...

  6. 41 CFR 302-2.20 - What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 4 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement? 302-2.20 Section 302-2.20 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal... knowledge, no third party has accepted duplicate reimbursement for your relocation expenses. The duplicate...

  7. 41 CFR 302-2.20 - What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 4 2013-07-01 2012-07-01 true What is a duplicate reimbursement disclosure statement? 302-2.20 Section 302-2.20 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal... knowledge, no third party has accepted duplicate reimbursement for your relocation expenses. The duplicate...

  8. 78 FR 52827 - Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations: Income Deductions and Resource Eligibility

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-08-27

    ... standard deduction. Both commenters observed that an applicant's statement is acceptable as proof to receive the standard deduction under SNAP. SNAP allows for self-declaration of shelter/utility expenses at or below the applicable standard. However in SNAP, all expenses a household wishes to claim or which...

  9. Coordinating and Performing Activities for Employer. Preparing Expense Reports. Student Manual and Teacher's Manual.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jones, Maleeta M.

    Supporting performance objective 13 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on preparing employer's business expense statements are included in this packet. (The packet is the fourth in a set of four on coordinating and performing activities…

  10. 7 CFR 1218.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BLUEBERRY PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Blueberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and Assessments...

  11. 7 CFR 1218.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BLUEBERRY PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Blueberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and Assessments...

  12. 7 CFR 1218.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BLUEBERRY PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Blueberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and Assessments...

  13. 7 CFR 1218.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BLUEBERRY PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER Blueberry Promotion, Research, and Information Order Expenses and Assessments...

  14. Implications of new accounting rules for income taxes.

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    Reinstein, A; Carmichael, B J; Spaulding, A D

    1994-02-01

    The provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, require all organizations that issue financial statements to shift the focus of their accounting for income taxes from the income statement to the balance sheet. This change can alter significantly a healthcare organization's financial position. The change also may affect the way in which investors, lenders, regulators, and other users of financial statements evaluate corporations in the healthcare industry. Hospitals and other healthcare organizations, particularly for-profit organizations, therefore, should review carefully their methods of accounting for such items as deferred tax assets and loss and expense reserves.

  15. Drawing The Red Line: Cost Benefit Analysis on Large Life Rafts

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-06-13

    Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A . APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE; DISTRIBUTION IS UNLIMITED. The...Anderson, BS, MS Major, USAF June 2013 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A . APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE; DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED. AFIT-ENS-GRP-13-J-1...AMC has set up a Fuel-Efficiency Office (FEO) in order to analyze costs and make decisions that will save money on operational expenses related to

  16. Net one, net two: the primary care network income statement.

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    Halley, M D; Little, A W

    1999-10-01

    Although hospital-owned primary care practices have been unprofitable for most hospitals, some hospitals are achieving competitive advantage and sustainable practice operations. A key to the success of some has been a net income reporting tool that separates practice operating expenses from the costs of creating and operating a network of practices to help healthcare organization managers, physicians, and staff to identify opportunities to improve the network's financial performance. This "Net One, Net Two" reporting allows operations leadership to be held accountable for Net One expenses and strategic leadership to be held accountable for Net Two expenses.

  17. 12 CFR 747.607 - Statement of net worth.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... and Procedures Applicable to Recovery of Attorneys Fees and Other Expenses Under the Equal Access to... is an eligible party. The administrative law judge or the NCUA Board may require additional...

  18. Guidelines clarify managed care accounting procedures.

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    Cheramy, S J; Garner, M

    1989-08-01

    Two new documents offer guidance for accounting issues involved in managed care programs. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Statement of Position 89-5 and HFMA's Principles and Practices Board Statement No. 11 address risk contracting from the perspective of the managed care program and the healthcare provider, respectively. One key issue addressed in the documents is the timing of expense recognition of the costs of providing health services to members of managed care plans.

  19. A penny saved is ten dollars earned: fifteen ways to lower overhead and boost the bottom line.

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    Pollock, Kim

    2013-01-01

    As expenses rise and reimbursements remain flat or decline, it's more important than ever to scrutinize practice expenditures on a regular basis. This article provides tips for evaluating individual line items on the profit and loss statement and identifying expenses that can be reduced without sacrificing quality of care or patient satisfaction. When aggregated, even seemingly small reductions add up to big annual savings.

  20. An Evaluation of the Navy Resale System’s Operating and Financial Statements.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1984-03-01

    Property and equipment 100 Company management 200 Accounting and management information 300 Credit and accounts receivable 400 Sales promotion 500 Services...For example it would be difficult to establish a productivity measurement for the Property and Equipment, the Company Management ,and the Sales ... Promotion expense centers, since it would be difficult to define a transaction in relation to these expense centers. However, it is easy to define trans

  1. Expense comparison of a telemedicine practice versus a traditional clinical practice.

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    Barker, Gail P; Krupinski, Elizabeth A; Schellenberg, Bonnie; Weinstein, Ronald S

    2004-01-01

    This paper compares the expenses of a telemedicine program to those of a traditional clinical practice using data from two fiscal years (FY) 1998/1999 and 2000/2001. As part of that evaluation, we compared expenses of the University of Arizona's clinical practice group, the University Physicians Incorporated (UPI), to those of the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) practice. For this study, we used the reporting categories published in the year-end UPI financial statement. These categories included clinical services, administration, equipment depreciation, and overhead. Results showed that clinical service expenses and administrative expenses for FY 2000/2001 were higher in the traditional UPI practice, whereas equipment depreciation and overhead expenses are higher in the telemedicine practice. This differs somewhat from FY 1998/1999, where clinical expenses and overhead were higher in the UPI practice and administration and equipment depreciation were higher in the telemedicine practice. We will discuss the relevance of these results and the critical factors that contribute to these differences.

  2. Clinical Evidence of Exercise Benefits for Stroke.

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    Han, Peipei; Zhang, Wen; Kang, Li; Ma, Yixuan; Fu, Liyuan; Jia, Liye; Yu, Hairui; Chen, Xiaoyu; Hou, Lin; Wang, Lu; Yu, Xing; Kohzuki, Masahiro; Guo, Qi

    2017-01-01

    Even though stroke is the third, not the first, most common cause of disability-adjusted life years in developed countries, it is one of the most expensive to treat. Part of the expense is due to secondary problems in the post-stroke period including: cognition, memory, attention span, pain, sensation loss, psychological issues, and problems with mobility and balance. Research has identified that exercise has both positive physical and psychosocial effects for post-stroke patients. Therefore, this scientific statement provides an overview on exercise rehabilitation for post-stroke patients.We will use systematic literature reviews, clinical and epidemiology reports, published morbidity and mortality studies, clinical and public health guidelines, patient files, and authoritative statements to support this overview.Evidence clearly supports the use of various kinds of exercise training (e.g., aerobic, strength, flexibility, neuromuscular, and traditional Chinese exercise) for stroke survivors. Aerobic exercise, the main form of cardiac rehabilitation, may play an important role in improving aerobic fitness, cardiovascular fitness, cognitive abilities, walking speed and endurance, balance, quality of life, mobility, and other health outcomes among stroke patients. Strength exercise, included in national stroke guidelines and recommended for general health promotion for stroke survivors, can lead to improvements in functionality, psychosocial aspects, and quality of life for post-stroke patients. Flexibility exercises can relieve muscle spasticity problems, improve motor function, range of motion, and prevent contractures. Stretching exercises can also prevent joint contractures, muscle shortening, decrease spasticity, reduce joint stiffness and improve a post-stroke patient's overall function. Neuromuscular exercises can improve activities of daily living (ADL) through coordination and balance activities. Traditional Chinese exercises are used to improve walking and balance ability as well as increase muscle strength, which is important for post-stroke patients.The present evidence strongly supports the power of exercise for post-stroke patients, which in this study combined aerobic exercises, strength training, flexibility exercises, neuromuscular exercises, and traditional Chinese exercises. This research can encourage post-stroke survivors to consider the importance of exercise in the rehabilitation process.

  3. Formal ontologies in biomedical knowledge representation.

    PubMed

    Schulz, S; Jansen, L

    2013-01-01

    Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal ontologies are being used to organize biomedical knowledge and data. However, these two kinds of artefacts are not always clearly distinguished. Whereas the popular RDF(S) standard provides an intuitive triple-based representation, it is semantically weak. Description logics based ontology languages like OWL-DL carry a clear-cut semantics, but they are computationally expensive, and they are often misinterpreted to encode all kinds of statements, including those which are not ontological. We distinguish four kinds of statements needed to comprehensively represent domain knowledge: universal statements, terminological statements, statements about particulars and contingent statements. We argue that the task of formal ontologies is solely to represent universal statements, while the non-ontological kinds of statements can nevertheless be connected with ontological representations. To illustrate these four types of representations, we use a running example from parasitology. We finally formulate recommendations for semantically adequate ontologies that can efficiently be used as a stable framework for more context-dependent biomedical knowledge representation and reasoning applications like clinical decision support systems.

  4. 12 CFR 747.610 - Answer to application.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... and Procedures Applicable to Recovery of Attorneys Fees and Other Expenses Under the Equal Access to... settlement. The filing of this statement shall extend the time for filing an answer for an additional 30 days...

  5. 77 FR 20405 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-04-04

    ... Management Reform Act (GMRA) of 1994, requires government agencies to produce auditable financial statements... collect data on Medicaid expenses. The CMS-R-199 collects Medicaid payable and receivable accounting data...

  6. 39 CFR 3.6 - Information furnished to Board-financial and operating reports.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... the following categories: (1) Mail volume by class; (2) Income and expense by principal categories; (3... workload and resource utilization); and (6) changes in postal costs. (b) These statements shall include...

  7. Report of Investigation: Ronald F. Lewis, Major General, U.S. Army

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-10-04

    and away for a period of time and then get back to the grind of running the trips. Our investigation of travel -related allegations against MG Lewis...misused his government travel charge card (GTCC) for personal expenses; (2) made false official statements regarding his GTCC misuse; and (3) engaged in...and then as Senior Military Assistant (SMA) to the Secretary of Defense: (1) misused his government travel charge card (GTCC) for personal expenses

  8. 7 CFR 1212.51 - Financial statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING... RESEARCH, PROMOTION, CONSUMER EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY INFORMATION ORDER Honey Packers and Importers Research, Promotion, Consumer Education, and Industry Information Order Expenses and Assessments § 1212.51 Financial...

  9. The Politics of Access to Expensive Drugs: INESSS and the Innovative Pharmaceutical Industry

    PubMed Central

    Hughes, David

    2012-01-01

    The innovative pharmaceutical industry employs thousands of people in Quebec and so has the ability to exert strong political pressure; the public statements of Sanofi-Aventis concerning the provincial reimbursement of certain expensive drugs are an example. “Maintaining a dynamic biopharmaceutical industry” is one of four main axes of the drug policy of Quebec's ministry of health. However, this role of government should not take precedence over the efficient and equitable management of health resources. We defend the legitimate and responsible choice of the Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux du Québec (INESSS) to require an acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio from expensive new drugs. PMID:23634161

  10. Southwestern Power Administration Combined Financial Statements, 2006-2009

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    None

    2009-09-01

    We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheets of the Southwestern Federal Power System (SWFPS), as of September 30, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006, and the related combined statements of revenues and expenses, changes in capitalization, and cash flows for the years then ended. As described in note 1(a), the combined financial statement presentation includes the hydroelectric generation functions of another Federal agency (hereinafter referred to as the generating agency), for which Southwestern Power Administration (Southwestern) markets and transmits power. These combined financial statements are the responsibility of the management of Southwestern and the generating agency. Our responsibility is tomore » express an opinion on these combined financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the combined financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of Southwestern and the generating agency’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the combined financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall combined financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the combined financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the Southwestern Federal Power System, as of September 30, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006, and the results of its operations and its cash flow for the years then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 SWFPS’s combined financial statements taken as a whole. The supplementary information in the combining financial statements is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic combined financial statements. The supplementary information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic combined financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic combined financial statements taken as a whole.« less

  11. 17 CFR 202.190 - Public Company Accounting Oversight Board budget approval process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... information technology projects; and (viii) A statement that the PCAOB has considered relative costs and..., processes, staff skills, information and other technologies, human resources, capital assets, and other... include, among others: personnel, training, recruiting and relocation expenses, information technology...

  12. 17 CFR 202.190 - Public Company Accounting Oversight Board budget approval process.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... information technology projects; and (viii) A statement that the PCAOB has considered relative costs and..., processes, staff skills, information and other technologies, human resources, capital assets, and other... include, among others: personnel, training, recruiting and relocation expenses, information technology...

  13. The Time Line Technique Teaching Tool in Accounting

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Eisner, Emanuel

    1977-01-01

    Graphic examples of the use of the time line in accounting are presented in five problems statements (with comments) in the following areas: Depreciation expense vs. the contra asset, accumulated depreciation; adjusting entries (deferrals, accruals); discounting notes receivable; bond accounting; and compound interest concepts. (TA)

  14. Financial management and dental school strength, Part I: Strategy.

    PubMed

    Chambers, David W; Bergstrom, Roy

    2004-04-01

    The ultimate goal of financial management in a dental school is to accumulate assets that are available for strategic growth, which is a parallel objective to the profit motive in business. Budget development is often grounded in an income statement framework where the goal is to match revenues and expenses. Only when a balance sheet perspective (assets = liabilities + equity) is adopted can strategic growth be fully addressed. Four views of budgeting are presented in this article: 1) covering expenses, 2) shopping, 3) strategic support, and 4) budgeting as strategy. These perceptions of the budgeting process form a continuum, moving from a weak strategic position (covering expenses) to a strong one (budgeting as strategy) that encourages the accumulation of assets that build equity in the organization.

  15. 75 FR 24796 - FBI Records Management Division National Name Check Program Section User Fees

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-05-06

    ... with generally accepted accounting principles, also include such expenses as capital investment... by RMD. Referencing OMB Circular A-25; the Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS... financial management directives, Grant Thornton developed a cost accounting methodology and related cost...

  16. 7 CFR 765.205 - Subordination of liens.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Subordination of liens. (a) Borrower application requirements. The borrower must submit the following, unless it... application for subordination form; (2) A current financial statement, including, in the case of an entity..., expenses, and debt repayment plan; and (6) Verification of all debts. (b) Real estate security. For loans...

  17. Only an Expensive Horoscope.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Berg, Craig A.; Clough, Michael

    1991-01-01

    Madeline Hunter's statements and teaching examples lead to a conception of teaching best described as a teacher-centered, funnel model. The Hunter lesson design may be useful to science teachers for some instructional objectives, but it cannot be expected to improve the state of science education. Includes five references. (MLH)

  18. 34 CFR 410.10 - What must an application contain?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... to the current and projected labor market needs in its geographic area, including the institution's... number of students to be served, enrollment trends, and economic factors that could affect the... statement must include information on allowable expenses listed in § 410.30. (12) Strategies and resources...

  19. 40 CFR Appendix II to Subpart V of... - Arbitration Rules

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOBILE SOURCES Emissions Control System Performance Warranty... by either party. It shall contain a statement of the matter in dispute, the amount of money involved... sums of money as it deems necessary to defray the expense of the arbitration, including the arbitrator...

  20. 40 CFR Appendix II to Subpart V of... - Arbitration Rules

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOBILE SOURCES Emissions Control System Performance Warranty... by either party. It shall contain a statement of the matter in dispute, the amount of money involved... sums of money as it deems necessary to defray the expense of the arbitration, including the arbitrator...

  1. 40 CFR Appendix II to Subpart V of... - Arbitration Rules

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOBILE SOURCES Emissions Control System Performance Warranty... by either party. It shall contain a statement of the matter in dispute, the amount of money involved... sums of money as it deems necessary to defray the expense of the arbitration, including the arbitrator...

  2. 40 CFR Appendix II to Subpart V of... - Arbitration Rules

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOBILE SOURCES Emissions Control System Performance Warranty... by either party. It shall contain a statement of the matter in dispute, the amount of money involved... sums of money as it deems necessary to defray the expense of the arbitration, including the arbitrator...

  3. 40 CFR Appendix II to Subpart V of... - Arbitration Rules

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOBILE SOURCES Emissions Control System Performance Warranty... by either party. It shall contain a statement of the matter in dispute, the amount of money involved... sums of money as it deems necessary to defray the expense of the arbitration, including the arbitrator...

  4. 5 CFR 177.105 - Administrative claim; evidence and information to be submitted.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... information to be submitted. 177.105 Section 177.105 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT... such expenses. (7) If damages for pain and suffering before death are claimed, a physician's detailed statement specifying the injuries suffered, duration of pain and suffering, any drugs administered for pain...

  5. 5 CFR 177.105 - Administrative claim; evidence and information to be submitted.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... information to be submitted. 177.105 Section 177.105 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT... such expenses. (7) If damages for pain and suffering before death are claimed, a physician's detailed statement specifying the injuries suffered, duration of pain and suffering, any drugs administered for pain...

  6. 5 CFR 177.105 - Administrative claim; evidence and information to be submitted.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... information to be submitted. 177.105 Section 177.105 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT... such expenses. (7) If damages for pain and suffering before death are claimed, a physician's detailed statement specifying the injuries suffered, duration of pain and suffering, any drugs administered for pain...

  7. 5 CFR 177.105 - Administrative claim; evidence and information to be submitted.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... information to be submitted. 177.105 Section 177.105 Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT... such expenses. (7) If damages for pain and suffering before death are claimed, a physician's detailed statement specifying the injuries suffered, duration of pain and suffering, any drugs administered for pain...

  8. 18 CFR 300.11 - Technical support for the rate schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... historic period or are expected to produce revenue during the rate test period; (B) Capitalized deferred...) Whether the investment is an initial investment, an addition, a replacement, or a capitalized deferred..., Maintenance and Other Annual Expenses. Statement E must contain, for the last five years of the historic...

  9. 18 CFR 300.11 - Technical support for the rate schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... historic period or are expected to produce revenue during the rate test period; (B) Capitalized deferred...) Whether the investment is an initial investment, an addition, a replacement, or a capitalized deferred..., Maintenance and Other Annual Expenses. Statement E must contain, for the last five years of the historic...

  10. 18 CFR 300.11 - Technical support for the rate schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... historic period or are expected to produce revenue during the rate test period; (B) Capitalized deferred...) Whether the investment is an initial investment, an addition, a replacement, or a capitalized deferred..., Maintenance and Other Annual Expenses. Statement E must contain, for the last five years of the historic...

  11. 18 CFR 300.11 - Technical support for the rate schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... historic period or are expected to produce revenue during the rate test period; (B) Capitalized deferred...) Whether the investment is an initial investment, an addition, a replacement, or a capitalized deferred..., Maintenance and Other Annual Expenses. Statement E must contain, for the last five years of the historic...

  12. 18 CFR 300.11 - Technical support for the rate schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... historic period or are expected to produce revenue during the rate test period; (B) Capitalized deferred...) Whether the investment is an initial investment, an addition, a replacement, or a capitalized deferred..., Maintenance and Other Annual Expenses. Statement E must contain, for the last five years of the historic...

  13. Mountain Plains Learning Experience Guide: Marketing. Course: Business Finance and Control.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Egan, B.

    One of thirteen individualized courses included in a marketing curriculum, this course covers control of expenses, inventory control, analysis of financial statements, and government regulations pertaining to business. The course is comprised of three units: (1) Fundamentals of Finance, (2) Merchandise Finance and Control, and (3) Food and…

  14. Accounting: Teaching the Worksheet: The "What,""Why," and "How."

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Simpson, Kawanna J.; Musselman, Donald

    1979-01-01

    Techniques to enable accounting teachers to present the accounting worksheet are given, with examples of worksheet columns for income statement, balance sheet, revenue and expense, owner's equity, trial balance, and adjustments. The techniques also show the student the reasons (why) for and the mechanics (how) of the worksheet. (MF)

  15. 18 CFR 154.312 - Composition of Statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... the time of filing. Give the docket number of the certificate proceeding. (2) Schedule C-2. Show, for... requested must be based on a fully-developed and reliable lead-lag study. The components of the lead-lag study must include actual total company revenues, purchased gas costs, storage expense, transportation...

  16. 18 CFR 154.312 - Composition of Statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... the time of filing. Give the docket number of the certificate proceeding. (2) Schedule C-2. Show, for... requested must be based on a fully-developed and reliable lead-lag study. The components of the lead-lag study must include actual total company revenues, purchased gas costs, storage expense, transportation...

  17. 18 CFR 154.312 - Composition of Statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... the time of filing. Give the docket number of the certificate proceeding. (2) Schedule C-2. Show, for... requested must be based on a fully-developed and reliable lead-lag study. The components of the lead-lag study must include actual total company revenues, purchased gas costs, storage expense, transportation...

  18. 18 CFR 154.312 - Composition of Statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... the time of filing. Give the docket number of the certificate proceeding. (2) Schedule C-2. Show, for... requested must be based on a fully-developed and reliable lead-lag study. The components of the lead-lag study must include actual total company revenues, purchased gas costs, storage expense, transportation...

  19. Optimal design of earth-moving machine elements with cusp catastrophe theory application

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Pitukhin, A. V.; Skobtsov, I. G.

    2017-10-01

    This paper deals with the optimal design problem solution for the operator of an earth-moving machine with a roll-over protective structure (ROPS) in terms of the catastrophe theory. A brief description of the catastrophe theory is presented, the cusp catastrophe is considered, control parameters are viewed as Gaussian stochastic quantities in the first part of the paper. The statement of optimal design problem is given in the second part of the paper. It includes the choice of the objective function and independent design variables, establishment of system limits. The objective function is determined as mean total cost that includes initial cost and cost of failure according to the cusp catastrophe probability. Algorithm of random search method with an interval reduction subject to side and functional constraints is given in the last part of the paper. The way of optimal design problem solution can be applied to choose rational ROPS parameters, which will increase safety and reduce production and exploitation expenses.

  20. Inspector General, DOD, Oversight of the Air Force Audit Agency Audit of the FY 1999 Working Capital Fund Financial Statements

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2000-02-14

    5338M SO «.’A- ^ , S^ KfcS mi &<ur: .VCR In gnat* J» Äm«5w to term» Mxtgnitk» «a* expense ealaiktioMfitrmst «fgxdt fcU omf eha expenses. 31...higher NOR was driven by higher revenue than planned, because customers bought a different mix of fuels than budgeted as a result of the Kosovo...goods sold, which HP man III measures the cost incurred to produce a given quantity and mix of products and services. Net Operating Result the NOR

  1. Expensing options solves nothing.

    PubMed

    Sahlman, William A

    2002-12-01

    The use of stock options for executive compensation has become a lightning rod for public anger, and it's easy to see why. Many top executives grew hugely rich on the back of the gains they made on their options, profits they've been able to keep even as the value they were supposed to create disappeared. The supposed scam works like this: Current accounting regulations let companies ignore the cost of option grants on their income statements, so they can award valuable option packages without affecting reported earnings. Not charging the cost of the grants supposedly leads to overstated earnings, which purportedly translate into unrealistically high share prices, permitting top executives to realize big gains when they exercise their options. If an accounting anomaly is the problem, then the solution seems obvious: Write off executive share options against the current year's revenues. The trouble is, Sahlman writes, expensing option grants won't give us a more accurate view of earnings, won't add any information not already included in the financial statements, and won't even lead to equal treatment of different forms of executive pay. Far worse, expensing evades the real issue, which is whether compensation (options and other-wise) does what it's supposed to do--namely, help a company recruit, retain, and provide the right people with appropriate performance incentives. Any performance-based compensation system has the potential to encourage cheating. Only ethical management, sensible governance, adequate internal control systems, and comprehensive disclosure will save the investor from disaster. If, Sahlman warns, we pass laws that require the expensing of options, thinking that's fixed the fundamental flaws in corporate America's accounting, we will have missed a golden opportunity to focus on the much more extensive defects in the present system.

  2. Teaching the Interrelationships among Costs, Expense, and Liability of a Defined Benefit Pension Plan

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wilson, Arlette C.; Godwin, Norman H.

    2008-01-01

    The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 "Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans" (SFAS #158). Their intent is to comprehensively reconsider the accounting for postretirement benefit plans in phases. The first phase was to provide…

  3. 12 CFR 308.171 - Responses to application.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Rules and Procedures Relating to the Recovery of Attorney Fees and Other Expenses § 308.171 Responses to application. (a) By FDIC. (1) Within 20 days after service of an application... statement of intent to negotiate under § 308.179 of this subpart, failure to file an answer within the 20...

  4. 18 CFR 367.4120 - Account 412, Cost and expenses of construction or other services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... undertakes projects to construct physical property for associate or non-associate companies (see General... HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 2005, FEDERAL POWER ACT AND NATURAL GAS ACT UNIFORM SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS FOR..., FEDERAL POWER ACT AND NATURAL GAS ACT Income Statement Chart of Accounts Service Company Operating Income...

  5. Budgeting for Quality and Survival in the 21st Century--Guidelines for Directors.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Whitehead, R. Ann

    2003-01-01

    Offers practical guidelines for directors of child care centers on creating a budget and managing the center's finances. Suggests ways to establish priorities, establish a tuition rate, compute projected monthly enrollment and income, budget variable and fixed expenses, create the final budget, and monitor financial statements. (JPB)

  6. 7 CFR 48.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... correctly to account for all farm produce received by them,” approved March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1355; 7 U.S.C... farm products of any kind or character. (h) Truly and correctly to account means, unless otherwise... selling charges and all other charges or expenses paid and a statement of the net proceeds or deficit, and...

  7. 17 CFR 210.9-05 - Foreign activities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... nature and effects of any changes in such estimates and assumptions which have a significant impact on... period in which either (1) assets, or (2) revenue, or (3) income (loss) before income tax expense, or (4... income statement is filed, state the amount of revenue, income (loss) before taxes, and net income (loss...

  8. A survey of attitudes toward two motivating factors.

    PubMed

    Marty, J

    1977-07-01

    A survey was conducted to determine the attitudes clinical laboratory workers in Utah had toward two intrinsic aspects of work, challenge or appeal of work and self-fulfillment. Questionnaires were distributed to all major hospitals in Utah. Frequency distributions were obtained and Chisquare tests were performed to determine if significant differences existed in relationship to demographic variables. Respondents indicated that work was interesting, challenging, required thinking, and enabled them to make good use of past training, skills, and abilities. Findings showed they also responded positively to statements involving ample responsibility given for the position held, contribution to patient care, enjoyment of work, and feeling of self-importance. Negative attitudes were noted toward statements dealing with advancement in medical technology, adequate opportunities for continuing education at employer expense, and participation in decision making. The Chi-square test revealed workers in the hospitals surveyed differed significantly in their opinions about having adequate opportunities to attend workshops, etc., on employer time and expense, and also that personnel with varying educational levels felt significantly different about making suggestions concerning the laboratory.

  9. 77 FR 58355 - Silicon Metal From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-09-20

    ...'') results of redetermination, which reclassified certain line items in the surrogate financial statement used to calculate surrogate financial ratios in the 2007-2008 administrative review of silicon metal... administrative expenses (``SG&A'') in the surrogate financial ratios.\\7\\ \\6\\ Id. \\7\\ See Memorandum from Bobby...

  10. 14 CFR 10 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group I Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and expenses attaching...-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing... aircraft or aircraft operational personnel for flight assignment. Such expenses shall be included in...

  11. 14 CFR Section 10 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group I Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and expenses attaching to the holding of aircraft and aircraft operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This... personnel for flight assignment. Such expenses shall be included in function 5400 Maintenance or function...

  12. 14 CFR Section 10 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group I Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and expenses attaching to the holding of aircraft and aircraft operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This... personnel for flight assignment. Such expenses shall be included in function 5400 Maintenance or function...

  13. 14 CFR Section 11 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group II and Group III Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ...) This function shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and... assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing aircraft, expenses incurred on the ground in protecting and controlling the in-flight...

  14. 14 CFR Section 11 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group II and Group III Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ...) This function shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and... assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing aircraft, expenses incurred on the ground in protecting and controlling the in-flight...

  15. 14 CFR Section 10 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group I Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and expenses attaching to the holding of aircraft and aircraft operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This... personnel for flight assignment. Such expenses shall be included in function 5400 Maintenance or function...

  16. 14 CFR 11 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group II and Group III Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... Operations. (a) This function shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft... assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing aircraft, expenses incurred on the ground in protecting and controlling the in-flight...

  17. 14 CFR Section 11 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group II and Group III Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) This function shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and... assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing aircraft, expenses incurred on the ground in protecting and controlling the in-flight...

  18. 14 CFR Section 10 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group I Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and expenses attaching to the holding of aircraft and aircraft operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This... personnel for flight assignment. Such expenses shall be included in function 5400 Maintenance or function...

  19. 14 CFR Section 11 - Functional Classification-Operating Expenses of Group II and Group III Air Carriers

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ...) This function shall include expenses incurred directly in the in-flight operation of aircraft and... assignment to an in-flight status. (b) This function shall not include expenses incurred in repairing, servicing or storing aircraft, expenses incurred on the ground in protecting and controlling the in-flight...

  20. 76 FR 47216 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2011-08-04

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  1. 11 CFR 104.3 - Contents of reports (2 U.S.C. 434(b), 439a).

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    2010-01-01

    ... reporting period, including: currency; balance on deposit in banks, savings and loan institutions, and other... expenditure; (A) As used in 11 CFR 104.3(b)(3), purpose means a brief statement or description of why the... expenses, together with the date, amount and purpose of each expenditure. (A) As used in this paragraph...

  2. 31 CFR 500.566 - Certain transactions authorized on behalf of North Korean nationals incident to their travel and...

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    ... behalf of North Korean nationals incident to their travel and maintenance expenses. 500.566 Section 500..., Authorizations and Statements of Licensing Policy § 500.566 Certain transactions authorized on behalf of North... (b) of this section, the following transactions are authorized by or on behalf of a national of North...

  3. 41 CFR 302-2.17 - What happens if I fail to sign a service agreement?

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    2013-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 4 2013-07-01 2012-07-01 true What happens if I fail to... Rules Service Agreement and Disclosure Statement § 302-2.17 What happens if I fail to sign a service agreement? If you fail to sign a service agreement, your agency will not pay for your relocation expenses. ...

  4. Internal Controls Over the Army Military Equipment Baseline Valuation Effort

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-08-29

    Equipment and required thai military equipment assets be capitalized and depreciated . The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and...Property, Plant, and Equipment and requires that military equipment assets be capitalized and depreciated . Prior to SFFAS No. 23, DoD expensed military...net book value of military equipment is the total acquisition cost minus the accumulated depreciation . The Army’s financial statements also include

  5. Defense Industrial Personnel Security Clearance Review Program

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1992-01-02

    or on closed accounts. 5. Indication of deceit or deception in obtaining credit or bank accounts, misappropriation of funds, income tax evasion ...income tax evasion , expense account fraud, filing deceptive loan statements, and other intentional financial breaches of trust; (3) inability or...information; or any U.S. citizen nominated by the Red Cross or United Service Organizations for assignment with the Military Services overseas. The

  6. 76 FR 66308 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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  7. 77 FR 1941 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority; Correction

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority; Correction Correction In the Federal Register of January 6, 2012... of Health Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority. On page 797, in the...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and...

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  12. 76 FR 7216 - National Institutes of Health Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part N, National Institutes of Health, of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR... evaluation program. Delegations of Authority Statement: All delegations and redelegations of authority to...

  13. 76 FR 23817 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority; National Institutes of Health

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority; National Institutes of Health Part N, National Institutes of Health, of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR...

  14. 77 FR 73665 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Resources and Services Administration Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority This notice amends Part R of the Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administratio...

  15. HEALTHY study school food service revenue and expense report.

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    Treviño, Roberto P; Pham, Trang; Mobley, Connie; Hartstein, Jill; El Ghormli, Laure; Songer, Thomas

    2012-09-01

    Food service directors have a concern that federal reimbursement is not meeting the demands of increasing costs of healthier meals. The purpose of this article is to report the food option changes and the annual revenues and expenses of the school food service environment. The HEALTHY study was a 3-year (2006 to 2009) randomized, cluster-designed trial conducted in 42 middle schools at 7 field centers. The schools selected had at least 50% of students who were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch or who belonged to a minority group. A randomly assigned half of the HEALTHY schools received a school health intervention program consisting of 4 integrated components: nutrition, physical activity, behavioral knowledge and skills, and social marketing. The nutrition component consisted of changing the meal plans to meet 5 nutrition goals. Revenue and expense data were collected from income statements, federal meal records, à la carte sale sheets, school store sale sheets, donated money/food records, and vending machines. Although more intervention schools reached the nutritional goals than control schools, revenues and expenses were not significantly different between groups. The HEALTHY study showed no adverse effect of school food policies on food service finances. © 2012, American School Health Association.

  16. HEALTHY Study School Food Service Revenue and Expense Report

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    Treviño, Roberto P.; Pham, Trang; Mobley, Connie; Hartstein, Jill; El ghormli, Laure; Songer, Thomas

    2013-01-01

    BACKGROUND Food service directors have a concern that federal reimbursement is not meeting the demands of increasing costs of healthier meals. The purpose of this article is to report the food option changes and the annual revenues and expenses of the school food service environment. METHODS The HEALTHY study was a 3-year (2006 to 2009) randomized, cluster-designed trial conducted in 42 middle schools at 7 field centers. The schools selected had at least 50% of students who were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch or who belonged to a minority group. A randomly assigned half of the HEALTHY schools received a school health intervention program consisting of 4 integrated components: nutrition, physical activity, behavioral knowledge and skills, and social marketing. The nutrition component consisted of changing the meal plans to meet 5 nutrition goals. Revenue and expense data were collected from income statements, federal meal records, à la carte sale sheets, school store sale sheets, donated money/food records, and vending machines. RESULTS Although more intervention schools reached the nutritional goals than control schools, revenues and expenses were not significantly different between groups. CONCLUSION The HEALTHY study showed no adverse effect of school food policies on food service finances. PMID:22882105

  17. ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 10: surrogacy.

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    Shenfield, F; Pennings, G; Cohen, J; Devroey, P; de Wert, G; Tarlatzis, B

    2005-10-01

    This 10th statement of the Task Force on Ethics and Law considers ethical questions specific to varied surrogacy arrangements. Surrogacy is especially complex as the interests of the intended parents, the surrogate, and the future child may differ. It is concluded that surrogacy is an acceptable method of assisted reproductive technology of the last resort for specific medical indications, for which only reimbursement of reasonable expenses is allowed.

  18. Principles of Antipsychotic Prescribing for Policy Makers, Circa 2008. Translating Knowledge to Promote Individualized Treatment

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    Parks, Joseph; Radke, Alan; Parker, George; Foti, May-Ellen; Eilers, Robert; Diamond, Mary; Svendsen, Dale; Tandon, Rajiv

    2009-01-01

    Findings from 2 pivotal government-funded studies of comparative antipsychotic effectiveness undermine assumptions about the marked superiority of the more expensive second-generation “atypical” medications in comparison to the less expensive first-generation “typical” drugs. Because this assumption was the basis for the almost universal recommendation that these newer antipsychotics be used preferentially resulting in a 10-fold increase in state governmental expenditures on this class of medications over the past decade, a reassessment of policy is called for. To address the issue, the Medical Directors Council of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors critically reviewed findings of these studies in the context of other data and considered policy implications in the light of the obligations of state government to make available best possible and individually optimized treatment that is cost-effective. The Medical Directors Council unanimously adopted a set of recommendations to promote appropriate access, efficient utilization, and best practice use. We present our policy statement, in which we provide a succinct background, articulate general principles, and describe a set of 4 broad recommendations. We then summarize our understanding of the current state of knowledge about comparative antipsychotic effectiveness, best antipsychotic practice, and considerations for state policy that represent the basis of our position statement. PMID:18385207

  19. 75 FR 55582 - National Institutes of Health Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... authority statement: All delegations and redelegations of authority to officers and employees of NIH that..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part N, National Institutes of Health, of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR...

  20. The Medicare Cost Report and the limits of hospital accountability: improving financial accounting data.

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    Kane, N M; Magnus, S A

    2001-02-01

    Health policy makers, legislators, providers, payers, and a broad range of other players in the health care market routinely seek information on hospital financial performance. Yet the data at their disposal are limited, especially since hospitals' audited financial statements--the "gold standard" in hospital financial reporting--are not publicly available in many states. As a result, the Medicare Cost Report (MCR), filed annually by most U.S. hospitals in order to receive payment for treating Medicare patients, has become the primary public source of hospital financial information. However, financial accounting elements in the MCR are unreliable, poorly defined, and lacking in critical detail. Comparative analyses of MCRs and matched, audited financial statements reveal long-standing problems with the MCR's data, including major differences in reported profits; variations in the reporting of both revenues and expenses; an absence of relevant details, such as charity care, bad debt, operating versus nonoperating income, and affiliate transactions; an inconsistent classification of changes in net assets; and a failure to provide cash flow statements. Because of these problems, MCR financial data give only a limited and often inaccurate picture of the financial position of hospitals. Audited financial statements provide a more complete perspective, enabling analysts to address important questions left unanswered by the MCR data. Regulatory action is needed to create a national database of financial information based upon audited statements.

  1. U.S. Lake Erie Natural Gas Resource Development. Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

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    1982-03-01

    with expensive investments by end-users in more energy efficient houses, plants and equipment. The end result of this alternative would be to post...construction of transmission systems from other sources into the Lake Erie watershed, construction of synfuel and coal gasi- fication plants and...water treatment plant and by main- taining the pit near neutral during chlorination. 1.022 If jack-up rigs, drillehips, or stimulation barges capsize

  2. 76 FR 19995 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization..., is amended as follows: I. Under Section AK.10 Organization, delete in its entirety and replace with...

  3. 75 FR 59277 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... reorganization of the Division of Adult and Community Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease... follows: Delete in its entirety the mission statement for the Division of Adult and Community Health (CUCE..., in cooperation with other components of NCCDPHP. Delete in its entirety the functional statement for...

  4. Nordic consensus statement on the systematic assessment and management of possible severe asthma in adults

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    Porsbjerg, Celeste; Ulrik, Charlotte; Skjold, Tina; Backer, Vibeke; Laerum, Birger; Lehman, Sverre; Janson, Crister; Sandstrøm, Thomas; Bjermer, Leif; Dahlen, Barbro; Lundbäck, Bo; Ludviksdottir, Dora; Björnsdóttir, Unnur; Altraja, Alan; Lehtimäki, Lauri; Kauppi, Paula; Karjalainen, Jussi; Kankaanranta, Hannu

    2018-01-01

    ABSTRACT Although a minority of asthma patients suffer from severe asthma, they represent a major clinical challenge in terms of poor symptom control despite high-dose treatment, risk of exacerbations, and side effects. Novel biological treatments may benefit patients with severe asthma, but are expensive, and are only effective in appropriately targeted patients. In some patients, symptoms are driven by other factors than asthma, and all patients with suspected severe asthma (‘difficult asthma’) should undergo systematic assessment, in order to differentiate between true severe asthma, and ‘difficult-to-treat’ patients, in whom poor control is related to factors such as poor adherence or co-morbidities. The Nordic Consensus Statement on severe asthma was developed by the Nordic Severe Asthma Network, consisting of members from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia, including representatives from the respective national respiratory scientific societies with the aim to provide an overview and recommendations regarding the diagnosis, systematic assessment and management of severe asthma. Furthermore, the Consensus Statement proposes recommendations for the organization of severe asthma management in primary, secondary, and tertiary care. PMID:29535852

  5. Theater Missile Defense Extended Test Range Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement - Eglin Gulf Test Range. Volume 1

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    1998-07-01

    facilities No existing infrastructure or utilities Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Not on DOD property Expense due to logistics Matagorda Island... nutritive or harmful substances from the soil by percolation of a liquid Lead—a heavy metal which can accumulate in the body and cause a variety of negative...THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO ............ 2-74 2.3.3 LAUNCH FROM MATAGORDA ISLAND, TEXAS ..................... 2-74 2.3.4 LAUNCH FROM BOCA CHICA KEY

  6. Financial Audit: Congressional Award Foundation’s Fiscal Years 2007 and 2006 Financial Statements

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    2008-05-01

    accounts and the resulting gain or loss is included in revenue or expense, as appropriate. Donated equipment is recorded at fair value . The...capital lease liability represents the lesser of the net present value of future lease payments or the fair value of the asset acquired. Amortization of...securities and money market funds, which are stated at fair value . F. Classification of Net Assets The net assets of the Foundation are reported as

  7. High-resolution anorectal manometry: An expensive hobby or worth every penny?

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    Basilisco, G; Bharucha, A E

    2017-08-01

    Introduced approximately 10 years ago, high-resolution manometry catheters have fostered interest in anorectal manometry. This review, which accompanies two articles in this issue of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, reviews the methods, clinical indications, utility, and pitfalls of anorectal manometry and revisits the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Medical Position Statement on Anorectal Testing Techniques, which was last published in 1999. High-resolution manometry provides a refined assessment of the anorectal pressure profile, obviates the need for station pull-through maneuvers, and minimizes movement artifacts. In selected cases, this refined assessment may be useful for identifying structural abnormalities or anal weakness. However, many manometry patterns that were previously regarded as abnormal are also observed in a majority of healthy patients, which substantially limits the utility of manometry for identifying defecatory disorders. It is our impression that most conclusions of the AGA medical position statement from 1999 remain valid today. High-resolution techniques have not substantially affected the number of publications on or management of anorectal disorders. The ongoing efforts of an international working group to standardize techniques for anorectal manometry are welcome. Although high-resolution manometry is more than an expensive hobby, improvements in catheter design and further research to rigorously define and evaluate these techniques are necessary to determine if they are worth every penny. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  8. Pre-gilbertian conceptions of terrestrial magnetism

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    Smith, P.J.

    1968-01-01

    It is now well known that William Gilbert, in his De Magnete of 1600, first suggested that the earth behaves as a great magnet. By their very nature, however, such explicit statements tend, in retrospect, to be emphasised at the expense of less explicit antecedent ideas and experiments, with the result that, in the example under consideration here, the impression has sometimes been given that before Gilbert there was not the slightest suspicion that the earth exerts influence on the magnetic needle. In fact, Gilbert's conclusion represented the culmination of many centuries of thought and experimentation on the subject. This essay traces the main steps in the evolutionary process from the idea that magnetic 'virtue' derived from the heave, through the gradual realisation that magnetism is closely associated with the earth, up to the time of Gilbert's definite statement. ?? 1968.

  9. Ethics creep or governance creep? Challenges for Australian Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECS).

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    Gorman, Susanna M

    2011-09-01

    Australian Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) have to contend with ever-increasing workloads and responsibilities which go well beyond questions of mere ethics. In this article, I shall examine how the roles of HRECs have changed, and show how this is reflected in the iterations of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (NS). In particular I suggest that the focus of the National Statement has shifted to concentrate on matters of research governance at the expense of research ethics, compounded by its linkage to the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2007) in its most recent iteration. I shall explore some of the challenges this poses for HRECs and institutions and the risks it poses to ensuring that Australian researchers receive clear ethical guidance and review.

  10. 75 FR 37814 - Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Office of Health Reform Statement of...

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    ... Neighborhood Partnerships; Office of Health Reform Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of... of the Secretary. The changes are as follows: I. Under Part A, Chapter AA, Section AA.10 Organization...

  11. Structured Hierarchical Ada Presentation Using Pictographs (SHARP) definition, Application and Automation

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    1986-09-01

    implement a computer program as a function of the Function Point Total. As shown in Table 9, the software product (referred to as SPQR ) establishes the...language being used. Source code statements are defined in SPQR as consisting of executable statements and data definitions. The factors used to calculate... SPQR is a trademark of Software Productivity Research, Inc, 233 TABLE 9 NUMBER OF COMPUTER PROGRAM SOURCE STATEMENTS PER FUNCTION POINT TOTAL

  12. Objectives of Financial Statements. Report of the Study Group on the Objectives of Financial Statements.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    American Inst. of Certified Public Accountants, New York, NY.

    This report discusses the objectives of financial statements. Emphasis is placed on the function of objectives; users, their goals, and their information needs; the primary enterprise goal and earning power; accountability and financial statements; financial statements--reporting on the goal attainment of business enterprises; financial…

  13. 14 CFR Sec. 2-3 - Distribution of revenues and expenses within entities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... CERTIFICATED AIR CARRIERS General Accounting Provisions Sec. 2-3 Distribution of revenues and expenses within.... (c) Expense items contributing to more than one function shall be charged to the general overhead functions to which applicable except that where only incidental contribution is made to more than a single...

  14. 78 FR 5811 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part J (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the... Disease Registry. Section T-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as follows: Delete in its...

  15. 75 FR 70276 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part J (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the... Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Section J-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as...

  16. Environmental Impact Statement, Aubrey Lake, Elm Fork, Trinity River, Texas.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1973-01-01

    the most expensive site location studied. For recreation, site 4 is equal to sites 1 and 2, but less desirable than site 3. V- 9 ( 5 ) Summay. An...IV-3 9 . Agricultural Resources IV-3 10. Adverse Impacts on the Lewisville Lake Project IV- 4 Section V - Alternatives to the Proposed Action 1. No...Elements V- 4 e. Recreational Elements V- 5 2. Alternatives That Will Meet All of the Authorized Project Purposes V- 5 a. Alternate Damsite Locations V-6

  17. Home Health Care for Chronically Ill Children: Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session on Examining the Needs for Pediatric Home Care for Children with Long-Term Illnesses and Disabilities.

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

    The proceedings of the 1985 hearing address issues in pediatric home care for children with long-term illnesses and disabilities. Statements of parents center on extreme expenses of home care and the difficulties of finding financial aid. Additional testimony is offered by representatives of home health care agencies, physicians involved in care…

  18. 76 FR 42710 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services is being amended at... (ABC1). V. Under Chapter ABC, Section ABC.20 Functions, 2nd paragraph, replace ``State, tribal, and...

  19. 75 FR 20364 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as last... Organization Section AU.20 Functions Section AU.00 Mission. The Office of Consumer Information and Insurance...

  20. 76 FR 1167 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and... Functions, is hereby amended as follows: Delete in its entirety the title for the Office of Science Quality...

  1. 75 FR 71714 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority This notice amends Part F, Section F.70 (Order of Succession) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of... becomes unable to perform the functions and duties in the Office of the Administrator, CMS, the following...

  2. 78 FR 5812 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and... Control and Prevention. Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as follows: Delete in...

  3. 10 CFR 51.29 - Scoping-environmental impact statement and supplement to environmental impact statement.

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    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Scoping-environmental impact statement and supplement to environmental impact statement. 51.29 Section 51.29 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National...

  4. The Mission of Institutional Research.

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    Thorpe, Stephen W.

    Mission statements can provide a useful vehicle to communicate the purposes, goals, and objectives for functional units within organizations. This paper studied the extent to which institutional research offices utilize mission statements to communicate office functions. These functions were identified through content analysis, using nine specific…

  5. Leveraging Psychological Insights to Encourage the Responsible Use of Consumer Debt.

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    Hershfield, Hal E; Sussman, Abigail B; O'Brien, Rourke L; Bryan, Christopher J

    2015-11-01

    U.S. consumers currently hold $880 billion in revolving debt, with a mean household credit card balance of approximately $6,000. Although economic factors play a role in this societal issue, it is clear that psychological forces also affect consumers' decisions to take on and maintain unmanageable debt balances. We examine three psychological barriers to the responsible use of credit and debt. We discuss the tendency for consumers to (a) make erroneous predictions about future spending habits, (b) rely too heavily on values presented on billing statements, and (c) categorize debt and saving into separate mental accounts. To overcome these obstacles, we urge policymakers to implement methods that facilitate better budgeting of future expenses, modify existing credit card statement disclosures, and allow consumers to easily apply government transfers (such as tax credits) to debt repayment. In doing so, we highlight minimal and inexpensive ways to remedy the debt problem. © The Author(s) 2015.

  6. Biological Awareness: Statements for Self-Discovery.

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    Edington, D.W.; Cunningham, Lee

    This guide to biological awareness through guided self-discovery is based on 51 single focus statements concerning the human body. For each statement there are explanations of the underlying physiological principles and suggested activities and discussion ideas to encourage understanding of the statement in terms of the human body's functions,…

  7. For the last time: stock options are an expense.

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    Bodie, Zvi; Kaplan, Robert S; Merton, Robert C

    2003-03-01

    Should stock options be recorded as an expense on a company's income statement and balance sheet, or should they remain where they are, relegated to footnotes? The extraordinary boom in share prices during the Internet bubble made critics of option expensing look like spoilsports. But since the crash, the debate has returned with a vengeance. And no wonder: The authors believe the case for expensing options is overwhelming. In this article, Nobel Iaureate Robert Merton, one of the inventors of the Black-Scholes option-pricing model; his coauthor on the classic textbook Finance, Zvi Bodie; and Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, examine and dismiss the principal claims put forward by those who continue to oppose options expensing. They demonstrate that stock-option grants do indeed have real cash-flow implications that need to be reported. They show that effective ways certainly exist to quantify those implications. They detail the distortions that relegating stock-option accounting to footnotes creates. And they show why reporting option costs should in no way hamper young companies in their efforts to provide incentives. Options are indeed a powerful incentive, the authors agree, and failing to record a transaction that creates such powerful effects is economically indefensible. Worse, it encourages companies to favor options over alternative incentive systems. It is not the proper role of accounting standards, the authors argue, to distort executive and employee compensation by subsidizing one particular form of compensation and no other. Companies should choose compensation methods according to their economic benefits--not the way they are reported.

  8. 76 FR 37131 - Statement of Organizations, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... delegations and redelegations of authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational...] Statement of Organizations, Functions, and Delegations of Authority AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration... of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for CDER (35 FR 3685, February 25, 1970, 60...

  9. 76 FR 30174 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... and consultation to domestic and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and...

  10. Pupil Personnel Services: Statement of Functions.

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    Cardinale, Anthony

    This statement of function for pupil personnel services (PPS) in the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DDDS) focuses on the support role of pupil personnel workers. General, program, and specific functions of school counselors and psychologists, social workers, educational prescriptionists, school health nurses, and resident hall advisors…

  11. 78 FR 19711 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Knowledge Management Office (CQA5), Office of the Director (CQA). Revise the functional statement for the... following: (9) establish collaboration and coordination between clinical medicine and public health to...

  12. 76 FR 54637 - Board Policy Statements

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    ...The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Board recently undertook its 5-year review of FCA Board policy statements. This review resulted in revisions to 14 policy statements that are mostly technical, grammatical, or syntactical. However, a few of the revisions add clarity to the policy statements and other revisions incorporate changes required either by new laws or by changes in the functional statement of operations for some FCA offices.

  13. 75 FR 10296 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and...-based methods and guidelines mandated by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program...

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    ...) determines, recommends, and implements procedural changes needed to maintain effective management of CDC... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Statement of Organization... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR... Development (NICHD). Section N-T, Organization and Functions, under the heading Eunice Kennedy Shriver...

  16. 77 FR 509 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of... Disease Control and Prevention. Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as follows...

  17. School Mission Statements and School Performance: A Mixed Research Investigation

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    Slate, John R.; Jones, Craig H.; Wiesman, Karen; Alexander, Jeanie; Saenz, Tracy

    2008-01-01

    Background: Schools in K-12 have generated mission statements as ways of focusing their efforts and energies in specific areas. These mission statements vary by institutional setting as a function of the stakeholders and constituent groups who facilitate their development. To date, no studies were located in which the mission statements of…

  18. 78 FR 72088 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and... of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Section C-B, Organization...

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    ..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is being...'' and all references to ``OGHA'' with ``OGA.'' III. Delegation of Authority. All delegations and...

  20. 78 FR 7436 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority This notice amends Part R of the Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health... Administrator retains the discretion to specify a different order of succession. Section R-40, Delegations of...

  1. A strategy for improved computational efficiency of the method of anchored distributions

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    Over, Matthew William; Yang, Yarong; Chen, Xingyuan; Rubin, Yoram

    2013-06-01

    This paper proposes a strategy for improving the computational efficiency of model inversion using the method of anchored distributions (MAD) by "bundling" similar model parametrizations in the likelihood function. Inferring the likelihood function typically requires a large number of forward model (FM) simulations for each possible model parametrization; as a result, the process is quite expensive. To ease this prohibitive cost, we present an approximation for the likelihood function called bundling that relaxes the requirement for high quantities of FM simulations. This approximation redefines the conditional statement of the likelihood function as the probability of a set of similar model parametrizations "bundle" replicating field measurements, which we show is neither a model reduction nor a sampling approach to improving the computational efficiency of model inversion. To evaluate the effectiveness of these modifications, we compare the quality of predictions and computational cost of bundling relative to a baseline MAD inversion of 3-D flow and transport model parameters. Additionally, to aid understanding of the implementation we provide a tutorial for bundling in the form of a sample data set and script for the R statistical computing language. For our synthetic experiment, bundling achieved a 35% reduction in overall computational cost and had a limited negative impact on predicted probability distributions of the model parameters. Strategies for minimizing error in the bundling approximation, for enforcing similarity among the sets of model parametrizations, and for identifying convergence of the likelihood function are also presented.

  2. Public Response to Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Clinical Decisions

    PubMed Central

    Beach, Mary Catherine; Asch, David A.; Jepson, Christopher; Hershey, John C.; Mohr, Tara; McMorrow, Stacey; Ubel, Peter A.

    2011-01-01

    Purpose To explore public attitudes toward the incorporation of cost-effectiveness analysis into clinical decisions. Methods The authors presented 781 jurors with a survey describing 1 of 6 clinical encounters in which a physician has to choose between cancer screening tests. They provided cost-effectiveness data for all tests, and in each scenario, the most effective test was more expensive. They instructed respondents to imagine that he or she was the physician in the scenario and asked them to choose which test to recommend and then explain their choice in an open-ended manner. The authors then qualitatively analyzed the responses by identifying themes and developed a coding scheme. Two authors separately coded the statements with high overall agreement (kappa = 0.76). Categories were not mutually exclusive. Results Overall, 410 respondents (55%) chose the most expensive option, and 332 respondents (45%) choose a less expensive option. Explanatory comments were given by 82% respondents. Respondents who chose the most expensive test focused on the increased benefit (without directly acknowledging the additional cost) (39%), a general belief that life is more important than money (22%), the significance of cancer risk for the patient in the scenario (20%), the belief that the benefit of the test was worth the additional cost (8%), and personal anecdotes/preferences (6%). Of the respondents who chose the less expensive test, 40% indicated that they did not believe that the patient in the scenario was at significant risk for cancer, 13% indicated that they thought the less expensive test was adequate or not meaningfully different from the more expensive test, 12% thought the cost of the test was not worth the additional benefit, 9% indicated that the test was too expensive (without mention of additional benefit), and 7% responded that resources were limited. Conclusions Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs is mixed. Although some respondents justified their decision based on the cost-effectiveness information provided, many focused instead on specific features of the scenario or on general beliefs about whether cost should be incorporated into clinical decisions. PMID:14570295

  3. Asian Consensus Report on Functional Dyspepsia

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    Miwa, Hiroto; Ghoshal, Uday C; Gonlachanvit, Sutep; Gwee, Kok-Ann; Ang, Tiing-Leong; Chang, Full-Young; Fock, Kwong Ming; Hongo, Michio; Hou, Xiaohua; Kachintorn, Udom; Ke, Meiyun; Lai, Kwok-Hung; Lee, Kwang Jae; Lu, Ching-Liang; Mahadeva, Sanjiv; Miura, Soichiro; Park, Hyojin; Rhee, Poong-Lyul; Sugano, Kentaro; Vilaichone, Ratha-korn; Wong, Benjamin CY

    2012-01-01

    Background/Aims Environmental factors such as food, lifestyle and prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection are widely different in Asian countries compared to the West, and physiological functions and genetic factors of Asians may also be different from those of Westerners. Establishing an Asian consensus for functional dyspepsia is crucial in order to attract attention to such data from Asian countries, to articulate the experience and views of Asian experts, and to provide a relevant guide on management of functional dyspepsia for primary care physicians working in Asia. Methods Consensus team members were selected from Asian experts and consensus development was carried out using a modified Delphi method. Consensus teams collected published papers on functional dyspepsia especially from Asia and developed candidate consensus statements based on the generated clinical questions. At the first face-to-face meeting, each statement was reviewed and e-mail voting was done twice. At the second face-to-face meeting, final voting on each statement was done using keypad voting system. A grade of evidence and a strength of recommendation were applied to each statement according to the method of the GRADE Working Group. Results Twenty-nine consensus statements were finalized, including 7 for definition and diagnosis, 5 for epidemiology, 9 for pathophysiology and 8 for management. Algorithms for diagnosis and management of functional dyspepsia were added. Conclusions This consensus developed by Asian experts shows distinctive features of functional dyspepsia in Asia and will provide a guide to the diagnosis and management of functional dyspepsia for Asian primary care physicians. PMID:22523724

  4. 78 FR 956 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2013-01-07

    ... Management (RB4) and Office of Information Technology (RB5). Specifically, this notice: (1) Transfers the records management function from the Office of Management (RB4) to the Office of Information Technology (RB5); (2) updates the functional statement for the Office of Management (RB4) and the Office of the...

  5. The Function to Serve: A Social-Justice-Oriented Investigation of Community College Mission Statements

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    Andrade, Luis M.; Lundberg, Carol A.

    2018-01-01

    This study investigated the ways that mission statements from 70 Hispanic-serving community colleges communicated their commitment to their Hispanic-serving function. Reference specifically to the Hispanic-serving function was absent, but references to culture and access were relatively common. Findings describe the ways culture and access were…

  6. Left inferior-parietal lobe activity in perspective tasks: identity statements

    PubMed Central

    Arora, Aditi; Weiss, Benjamin; Schurz, Matthias; Aichhorn, Markus; Wieshofer, Rebecca C.; Perner, Josef

    2015-01-01

    We investigate the theory that the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) is closely associated with tracking potential differences of perspective. Developmental studies find that perspective tasks are mastered at around 4 years of age. Our first study, meta-analyses of brain imaging studies shows that perspective tasks specifically activate a region in the left IPL and precuneus. These tasks include processing of false belief, visual perspective, and episodic memory. We test the location specificity theory in our second study with an unusual and novel kind of perspective task: identity statements. According to Frege's classical logical analysis, identity statements require appreciation of modes of presentation (perspectives). We show that identity statements, e.g., “the tour guide is also the driver” activate the left IPL in contrast to a control statements, “the tour guide has an apprentice.” This activation overlaps with the activations found in the meta-analysis. This finding is confirmed in a third study with different types of statements and different comparisons. All studies support the theory that the left IPL has as one of its overarching functions the tracking of perspective differences. We discuss how this function relates to the bottom-up attention function proposed for the bilateral IPL. PMID:26175677

  7. Medicine procurement in hospital pharmacies of Nepal: A qualitative study based on the Basel Statements.

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    Shrestha, Mina; Moles, Rebekah; Ranjit, Eurek; Chaar, Betty

    2018-01-01

    Accessibility and affordability of evidence-based medicines are issues of global concern. For low-income countries like Nepal, it is crucial to have easy and reliable access to affordable, good-quality, evidence-based medicines, especially in the aftermath of natural or manmade disasters. Availability of affordable and evidence-based high quality medicines depends on the medicine procurement procedure, which makes it an important aspect of healthcare delivery. In this study, we aimed to investigate medicine procurement practices in hospital pharmacies of Nepal within the framework of International Pharmaceutical Federation [FIP] hospital pharmacy guidelines "the Basel Statements". We conducted semi-structured interviews with hospital pharmacists or procurement officers in hospital pharmacies of four major regions in Nepal to explore procurement practices. Data were collected until saturation of themes, analysed using the framework approach, and organised around the statements within the procurement theme of the Basel Statements. Interviews conducted with 53 participants revealed that the procurement guidelines of the Basel Statements were adopted to a certain extent in hospital pharmacies of Nepal. It was found that the majority of hospital pharmacies in Nepal reported using an expensive direct-procurement model for purchasing medicines. Most had no formulary and procured medicines solely based on doctors' prescriptions, which were heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies' marketing strategies. Whilst most procured only registered medicines, a minority reported purchasing unregistered medicines through unauthorised supply-chains. And although the majority of hospital pharmacies had some contingency plans for managing medicine shortages, a few had none. Procurement guidelines of the Basel Statements were thus found to be partially adopted; however, there is room for improvement in current procurement practices in hospital pharmacies of Nepal. Adoption and regulation of national and international policies is recommended for enhancing medicine accessibility, as well as improving preparedness for health emergencies during natural disasters and health epidemics.

  8. 41 CFR 105-53.112 - General statement of functions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... contracting; real and personal property management; transportation, public transportation, public utilities... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false General statement of functions. 105-53.112 Section 105-53.112 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property...

  9. 12 CFR 905.2 - General statement and statutory authority.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ....2 Section 905.2 Banks and Banking FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS Functions and Responsibilities of Finance Board § 905.2 General statement and statutory authority. (a) The Finance Board is an independent...

  10. 77 FR 53888 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2012-09-04

    ... title and functional statements for the Program Services Branch (CGCB), and Applied Science Evaluation... Branches during exercises or upon a federal deployment of DSNS assets. Applied Science and Evaluation..., translates, and leverages interdisciplinary preparedness science; (4) fosters innovation and efficiency in...

  11. Statement of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group Regarding Payments to Families of Deceased Organ Donors.

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    Capron, Alexander Morgan; Delmonico, Francis L; Dominguez-Gil, Beatriz; Martin, Dominique Elizabeth; Danovitch, Gabriel M; Chapman, Jeremy

    2016-09-01

    Governmental and private programs that pay next of kin who give permission for the removal of their deceased relative's organs for transplantation exist in a number of countries. Such payments, which may be given to the relatives or paid directly for funeral expenses or hospital bills unrelated to being a donor, aim to increase the rate of donation. The Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group-in alignment with the World Health Organization Guiding Principles and the Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking in Human Organs-has adopted a new policy statement opposing such practices. Payment programs are unwise because they produce a lower rate of donations than in countries with voluntary, unpaid programs; associate deceased donation with being poor and marginal in society; undermine public trust in the determination of death; and raise doubts about fair allocation of organs. Most important, allowing families to receive money for donation from a deceased person, who is at no risk of harm, will make it impossible to sustain prohibitions on paying living donors, who are at risk. Payment programs are also unethical. Tying coverage for funeral expenses or healthcare costs to a family allowing organs to be procured is exploitative, not "charitable." Using payment to overcome reluctance to donate based on cultural or religious beliefs especially offends principles of liberty and dignity. Finally, while it is appropriate to make donation "financially neutral"-by reimbursing the added medical costs of evaluating and maintaining a patient as a potential donor-such reimbursement may never be conditioned on a family agreeing to donate.

  12. The Federal Trade Commission, clinical integration, and the organization of physician practice.

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    Casalino, Lawrence P

    2006-06-01

    This article examines Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policy--in particular, the agency's controversial 1996 statements on clinical integration--toward joint negotiations for nonrisk contracts with health plans by physicians organized into independent practice associations (IPAs) and (with hospitals) into physician-hospital organizations (PHOs). The article concludes that the policy is consistent with anti-trust principles, consistent with current thinking on the use of organized processes to improve medical care quality, specific enough to provide guidance to physicians wanting to integrate clinically, and general enough to encourage ongoing innovations in physician organization. The FTC should consider stronger sanctions for IPAs and PHOs whose clinical integration is nothing more than a sham intended to provide cover for joint negotiations, should give the benefit of the doubt to organizations whose clinical integration appears to be reasonably consonant with the statements, and should clarify several ambiguities in the statements. Health plans should facilitate IPA and PHO efforts to improve care by rewarding quality and efficiency and by providing clinically integrated organizations with claims information on individual patients. Though creating clinically integrated organizations is difficult and expensive, physicians should recognize that clinical integration can help them both to gain some negotiating leverage with health plans and to improve the quality of care for their patients.

  13. A study of the review and comment phase of the environmental impact statement : draft and negative.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1972-01-01

    This study examined the agencies that review the environmental impact statements (EIS) prepared on highway projects and was an attempt to shed light on the functions, personnel, and problems of the offices that saw the statements. The report covered ...

  14. Flexible feature interface for multimedia sources

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    Coffland, Douglas R [Livermore, CA

    2009-06-09

    A flexible feature interface for multimedia sources system that includes a single interface for the addition of features and functions to multimedia sources and for accessing those features and functions from remote hosts. The interface utilizes the export statement: export "C" D11Export void FunctionName(int argc, char ** argv,char * result, SecureSession *ctrl) or the binary equivalent of the export statement.

  15. 7 CFR 1205.334 - Expenses.

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    2010-01-01

    ... AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COTTON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Cotton Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1205.334 Expenses. (a) The Board is authorized to... maintenance and functioning and to enable it to exercise its powers and perform its duties in accordance with...

  16. 7 CFR 1250.346 - Expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EGG RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Egg Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1250.346 Expenses. The Board is authorized to incur... maintenance and functioning and to enable it to exercise its powers and perform its duties in accordance with...

  17. 75 FR 45133 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... Management Analysis and Services Office, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control... entirety the titles and functional statements for the Management Analysis and Services Office (CAJG), insert the following: Management Analysis and Services Office (CAJG). The mission of the Management...

  18. 75 FR 61157 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    ... coordinates personnel activities for BPHC; (3) provides organization and management analysis, coordinating the... Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority This notice amends Part R of the Statement of Organization... Primary Health Care (RC). Specifically, this notice (1) Creates the Office of Administrative Management...

  19. 78 FR 18987 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of.... Sherri A. Berger, Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 2013...

  20. 75 FR 70276 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of... reorganization of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases...

  1. Numerical research of parameters of interaction of the gas flow with rotary valve of the gas pipeline

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Boldyrev, A. V.; Karelin, D. L.; Muljukin, V. L.

    2016-11-01

    Conducted numerical research of static characteristics of the rotary gate valve at different angles of its deviation. for this purpose were set different values of pressure differential on the valve depending on which, was determined the mass flow and torque on valve axes. The mathematical model is provided by continuity equations, average on Reynolds, Navier-Stokes and energy, the equation of the perfect gas, the equations of two-layer k-e of model of turbulence. When calculating the current near walls are used Wolfstein's model and the hybrid wall functions of Reichardt for the speed and temperature. The task is solved in three-dimensional statement with use of conditions of symmetry. The structure of the current is analyzed: zones of acceleration and flow separation, whirlwinds, etc. Noted growth of hydraulic resistance of the valve with reduction of slope angle of the valve and with the increase in mass flow. Established increase of torque with reduction of the deviation angle of the valve and with increase in the mass expense.

  2. 77 FR 65694 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2012-10-30

    ... public relations and media communications, as well as activities related to congressional inquiries, and...) updates the functional statement for the Division of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Education (RPF... Health Service Corps (RU5); (4) Division of Nursing and Public Health (RU6); (5) Division of External...

  3. 77 FR 7594 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2012-02-13

    ... Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority This notice amends Part R of the Statement of Organization... RA5--Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation Section RA5-10, Organization Delete in its entirety... with HRSA organizations in developing strategic plans for their component; (4) coordinates the Agency's...

  4. 77 FR 54904 - Intent to Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for the...

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    2012-09-06

    ... Environmental Impact Statement/ Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed Ballona Wetlands Restoration...) for the proposed Ballona Wetlands Restoration Project. The proposed project is intended to return the... biological functions and services in the project area. Restoring the wetland functions and services would...

  5. 75 FR 70274 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2010-11-17

    ... designs to prevent slope and highwall failures; (5) conducts research using a variety of techniques...) designs and conducts epidemiological research studies to identify and classify risk factors that cause, or... the titles and functional statements for the Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (CCM) and...

  6. Applying new AICPA accounting rules on special reports.

    PubMed

    Reinstein, A; Dery, R J

    1998-04-01

    Two new standards on agreed-upon procedures, issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, provide healthcare organizations and associated decision makers with new flexibility in acquiring professional accounting services. Effective January 1, 1996, these procedures allow organizations to target the type and volume of services performed by accountants and potentially avoid the time and expense involved in completing a full financial statement audit. As with any other accounting engagement, both the healthcare organization and the accounting firm need to establish what procedures will be conducted, who will be allowed to use the resulting report, and how the procedures will be conducted.

  7. Assessing the College Mission: An Excellent Starting Point for Institutional Effectiveness.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Quinley, John W.

    A community college's mission statement is a beacon that provides strategic direction for the institution and the conceptual framework for the entire organization. The principal tasks in drafting a new mission statement include matching the current mission to actual institutional functioning, and judging whether the statement is adequate to lead…

  8. Practice expenses in the MFS (Medicare fee schedule): the service-class approach.

    PubMed

    Latimer, E A; Kane, N M

    1995-01-01

    The practice expense component of the Medicare fee schedule (MFS), which is currently based on historical charges and rewards physician procedures at the expense of cognitive services, is due to be changed by January 1, 1998. The Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) and others have proposed microcosting direct costs and allocating all indirect costs on a common basis, such as physician time or work plus direct costs. Without altering the treatment of direct costs, the service-class approach disaggregates indirect costs into six practice function costs. The practice function costs are then allocated to classes of services using cost-accounting and statistical methods. This approach would make the practice expense component more resource-based than other proposed alternatives.

  9. 75 FR 60757 - Office for Civil Rights; Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary Office for Civil Rights; Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has... of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights...

  10. 22 CFR 102.11 - Arranging for the payment of expenses attendant upon an accident.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... upon an accident. 102.11 Section 102.11 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United States Aircraft Accidents Abroad § 102.11 Arranging for the payment of expenses attendant upon an accident. (a) The Department of State has no funds from which expenses attendant...

  11. 11 CFR 9034.4 - Use of contributions and matching payments; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... eligibility under 11 CFR 9033.8. (4) Taxes. Federal income taxes paid by the committee on non-exempt function...; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non-qualified campaign expenses. 9034.4 Section 9034.4 Federal Elections FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING...

  12. 11 CFR 9034.4 - Use of contributions and matching payments; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... eligibility under 11 CFR 9033.8. (4) Taxes. Federal income taxes paid by the committee on non-exempt function...; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non-qualified campaign expenses. 9034.4 Section 9034.4 Federal Elections FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING...

  13. 11 CFR 9034.4 - Use of contributions and matching payments; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... eligibility under 11 CFR 9033.8. (4) Taxes. Federal income taxes paid by the committee on non-exempt function...; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non-qualified campaign expenses. 9034.4 Section 9034.4 Federal Elections FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING...

  14. 11 CFR 9034.4 - Use of contributions and matching payments; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... eligibility under 11 CFR 9033.8. (4) Taxes. Federal income taxes paid by the committee on non-exempt function...; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non-qualified campaign expenses. 9034.4 Section 9034.4 Federal Elections FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING...

  15. 11 CFR 9034.4 - Use of contributions and matching payments; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... eligibility under 11 CFR 9033.8. (4) Taxes. Federal income taxes paid by the committee on non-exempt function...; examples of qualified campaign expenses and non-qualified campaign expenses. 9034.4 Section 9034.4 Federal Elections FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING...

  16. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Mueller, Juliane

    MISO is an optimization framework for solving computationally expensive mixed-integer, black-box, global optimization problems. MISO uses surrogate models to approximate the computationally expensive objective function. Hence, derivative information, which is generally unavailable for black-box simulation objective functions, is not needed. MISO allows the user to choose the initial experimental design strategy, the type of surrogate model, and the sampling strategy.

  17. The Relationship Between Expectancy of Success and Task Difficulty as a Function of Absolute and Relative Success Criteria

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Smith, Ronald E.; And Others

    1976-01-01

    Subjects (N=80) made expectancy of success statements in a dart throwing task under two conditions. Significant differences between criterion groups were obtained, with success statements remaining constant across difficulty levels in the relative criterion condition while declining rapidly as a function of task difficulty in the absolute…

  18. Revenue and Expenses of Ontario Universities, 1981-82. Volume IV, Physical Plant Operating Expenses.

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    Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. Research Div.

    Results of an annual survey provide an analysis of physical plant costs by major functional area and object of expense, as reported in each university's operating fund. The principles observed in reporting, definitions, and explanatory comments on the cost categories and their scopes precede a series of summary tables for: total and percentage…

  19. Integrating mental health into adolescent annual visits: impact of previsit comprehensive screening on within-visit processes.

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    Gadomski, Anne M; Fothergill, Kate E; Larson, Susan; Wissow, Lawrence S; Winegrad, Heather; Nagykaldi, Zsolt J; Olson, Ardis L; Roter, Debra L

    2015-03-01

    To evaluate how a comprehensive, computerized, self-administered adolescent screener, the DartScreen, affects within-visit patient-doctor interactions such as data gathering, advice giving, counseling, and discussion of mental health issues. Patient-doctor interaction was compared between visits without screening and those with the DartScreen completed before the visit. Teens, aged 15-19 years scheduled for an annual visit, were recruited at one urban and one rural pediatric primary care clinic. The doctor acted as his/her own control, first using his/her usual routine for five to six adolescent annual visits. Then, the DartScreen was introduced for five visits where at the beginning of the visit, the doctor received a summary report of the screening results. All visits were audio recorded and analyzed using the Roter interaction analysis system. Doctor and teen dialogue and topics discussed were compared between the two groups. Seven midcareer doctors and 72 adolescents participated; 37 visits without DartScreen and 35 with DartScreen were audio recorded. The Roter interaction analysis system defined medically related data gathering (mean, 36.8 vs. 32.7 statements; p = .03) and counseling (mean, 36.8 vs. 32.7 statements; p = .01) decreased with DartScreen; however, doctor responsiveness and engagement improved with DartScreen (mean, 4.8 vs. 5.1 statements; p = .00). Teens completing the DartScreen offered more psychosocial information (mean, 18.5 vs. 10.6 statements; p = .01), and mental health was discussed more after the DartScreen (mean, 93.7 vs. 43.5 statements; p = .03). Discussion of somatic and substance abuse topics did not change. Doctors reported that screening improved visit organization and efficiency. Use of the screener increased discussion of mental health but not at the expense of other adolescent health topics. Copyright © 2015 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  20. Medicine procurement in hospital pharmacies of Nepal: A qualitative study based on the Basel Statements

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    Ranjit, Eurek

    2018-01-01

    Background Accessibility and affordability of evidence-based medicines are issues of global concern. For low-income countries like Nepal, it is crucial to have easy and reliable access to affordable, good-quality, evidence-based medicines, especially in the aftermath of natural or manmade disasters. Availability of affordable and evidence-based high quality medicines depends on the medicine procurement procedure, which makes it an important aspect of healthcare delivery. In this study, we aimed to investigate medicine procurement practices in hospital pharmacies of Nepal within the framework of International Pharmaceutical Federation [FIP] hospital pharmacy guidelines “the Basel Statements”. Method We conducted semi-structured interviews with hospital pharmacists or procurement officers in hospital pharmacies of four major regions in Nepal to explore procurement practices. Data were collected until saturation of themes, analysed using the framework approach, and organised around the statements within the procurement theme of the Basel Statements. Results Interviews conducted with 53 participants revealed that the procurement guidelines of the Basel Statements were adopted to a certain extent in hospital pharmacies of Nepal. It was found that the majority of hospital pharmacies in Nepal reported using an expensive direct-procurement model for purchasing medicines. Most had no formulary and procured medicines solely based on doctors’ prescriptions, which were heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies’ marketing strategies. Whilst most procured only registered medicines, a minority reported purchasing unregistered medicines through unauthorised supply-chains. And although the majority of hospital pharmacies had some contingency plans for managing medicine shortages, a few had none. Conclusions Procurement guidelines of the Basel Statements were thus found to be partially adopted; however, there is room for improvement in current procurement practices in hospital pharmacies of Nepal. Adoption and regulation of national and international policies is recommended for enhancing medicine accessibility, as well as improving preparedness for health emergencies during natural disasters and health epidemics. PMID:29401474

  1. Large-scale expensive black-box function optimization

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Rashid, Kashif; Bailey, William; Couët, Benoît

    2012-09-01

    This paper presents the application of an adaptive radial basis function method to a computationally expensive black-box reservoir simulation model of many variables. An iterative proxy-based scheme is used to tune the control variables, distributed for finer control over a varying number of intervals covering the total simulation period, to maximize asset NPV. The method shows that large-scale simulation-based function optimization of several hundred variables is practical and effective.

  2. Developing a preservation policy and procedure statement for a health sciences library.

    PubMed Central

    Paulson, B A

    1989-01-01

    The preconditions for creating a preservation policy document in a health sciences library are an existing preservation policy for the institution of which it is a part and administrative support for preservation. The assumption underlying preservation activity, from the formulation of general guidelines to the detail of operating procedure, is that collection development and preservation are complementary functions. Documentation of operational procedures in some detail should be a part of the statement. Since preservation activity cuts across functional library structures, all management staff should be involved in the planning process and be made aware of their responsibilities. The creation of a preservation policy statement will highlight unaddressed issues, procedural inadequacies, and differences in staff perceptions of priorities, but a written statement provides a framework for setting priorities and making decisions. PMID:2758183

  3. Lagrangian space consistency relation for large scale structure

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Horn, Bart; Hui, Lam; Xiao, Xiao

    Consistency relations, which relate the squeezed limit of an (N+1)-point correlation function to an N-point function, are non-perturbative symmetry statements that hold even if the associated high momentum modes are deep in the nonlinear regime and astrophysically complex. Recently, Kehagias & Riotto and Peloso & Pietroni discovered a consistency relation applicable to large scale structure. We show that this can be recast into a simple physical statement in Lagrangian space: that the squeezed correlation function (suitably normalized) vanishes. This holds regardless of whether the correlation observables are at the same time or not, and regardless of whether multiple-streaming is present.more » Furthermore, the simplicity of this statement suggests that an analytic understanding of large scale structure in the nonlinear regime may be particularly promising in Lagrangian space.« less

  4. Lagrangian space consistency relation for large scale structure

    DOE PAGES

    Horn, Bart; Hui, Lam; Xiao, Xiao

    2015-09-29

    Consistency relations, which relate the squeezed limit of an (N+1)-point correlation function to an N-point function, are non-perturbative symmetry statements that hold even if the associated high momentum modes are deep in the nonlinear regime and astrophysically complex. Recently, Kehagias & Riotto and Peloso & Pietroni discovered a consistency relation applicable to large scale structure. We show that this can be recast into a simple physical statement in Lagrangian space: that the squeezed correlation function (suitably normalized) vanishes. This holds regardless of whether the correlation observables are at the same time or not, and regardless of whether multiple-streaming is present.more » Furthermore, the simplicity of this statement suggests that an analytic understanding of large scale structure in the nonlinear regime may be particularly promising in Lagrangian space.« less

  5. From the American Academy of Pediatrics: Policy statements--Modified recommendations for use of palivizumab for prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infections.

    PubMed

    2009-12-01

    Palivizumab was licensed in June 1998 by the US Food and Drug Administration for prevention of serious lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in pediatric patients who are at increased risk of severe disease. Safety and efficacy have been established for infants born at or before 35 weeks' gestation with or without chronic lung disease of prematurity and for infants and children with hemodynamically significant heart disease. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a policy statement on the use of palivizumab in November 1998 (American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Pediatrics. 1998;102[5]:1211-1216) and revised it in December 2003 (American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Pediatrics. 2003;112[6 pt 1]:1442-1446), and an AAP technical report on palivizumab was published in 2003 (Meissner HC, Long SS; American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Pediatrics. 2003;112[6 pt 1]:1447-1452). On the basis of the availability of additional data regarding seasonality of RSV disease as well as the limitations in available data on risk factors for identifying children who are at increased risk of serious RSV lower respiratory tract disease, AAP recommendations for immunoprophylaxis have been updated in an effort to ensure optimal balance of benefit and cost from this expensive intervention. This statement updates and replaces the 2003 AAP statement and the 2006 Red Book and is consistent with the 2009 Red Book recommendations.

  6. Financing strategic healthcare facilities: the growing attraction of alternative capital.

    PubMed

    Zismer, Daniel K; Fox, James; Torgerson, Paul

    2013-05-01

    Community health system leaders often dismiss use of alternative capital to finance strategic facilities as being too expensive and less strategically useful, preferring to follow historical precedent and use tax-exempt bonding to finance such facilities. Proposed changes in accounting rules should cause third-party-financed facility lease arrangements to be treated similarly to tax-exempt debt financings with respect to the income statement and balance sheet, increasing their appeal to community health systems. An in-depth comparison of the total costs associated with each financing approach can help inform the choice of financing approaches by illuminating their respective advantages and disadvantages.

  7. General statistical considerations

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Eberhardt, L L; Gilbert, R O

    From NAEG plutonium environmental studies program meeting; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2 Oct 1973). The high sampling variability encountered in environmental plutonium studies along with high analytical costs makes it very important that efficient soil sampling plans be used. However, efficient sampling depends on explicit and simple statements of the objectives of the study. When there are multiple objectives it may be difficult to devise a wholly suitable sampling scheme. Sampling for long-term changes in plutonium concentration in soils may also be complex and expensive. Further attention to problems associated with compositing samples is recommended, as is the consistent usemore » of random sampling as a basic technique. (auth)« less

  8. 76 FR 19774 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority: Office of the Secretary...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-08

    ... materials; and other activities that advance the communication, training and public relations aspects of... Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Divisions on the preparation of public statements and...

  9. Maintenance Business Plans.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Adams, Matt

    2002-01-01

    Discusses maintenance business plans, statements which provide accountability for facilities maintenance organizations' considerable budgets. Discusses the plan's components: statement of plan objectives, macro and detailed description of the facility assets, maintenance function descriptions, description of key performance indicators, milestone…

  10. Projected financial impact of noncoverage of elective circumcision by Louisiana medicaid in boys 0 to 5 years old.

    PubMed

    Ortenberg, Joseph; Roth, Christopher C

    2013-10-01

    Several states, including Louisiana since 2005, no longer cover elective circumcision under Medicaid programs. The recent AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) policy statement recognizes the medical benefits of circumcision and recommends the removal of financial barriers to this procedure. Cost savings are a factor in the limitation of circumcision coverage, although to our knowledge the actual cost savings to Medicaid programs have not been reported. We analyzed the number of circumcisions performed before and after the policy change to determine an accurate cost of such procedures and whether the increased procedure expense mitigates the initial savings. We analyzed the number of neonatal and nonneonatal circumcisions in boys 0 to 5 years old to determine trends during the selected period. A cost model for each procedure was created. Neonatal procedure cost was based on professional fees. Nonneonatal procedure cost was based on professional (surgeon and anesthesia) plus facility fees. The number and cost of procedures were compared before (2002 to 2004) and after (2006 to 2010) the policy change. Linear regression was used to predict future costs. The average annual number and expense of neonatal circumcisions were significantly decreased after the policy change. There was no significant decrease in nonneonatal procedures and expense. Cost per procedure ranged from $88.34 for neonatal to $486.76 for nonneonatal circumcision. Secondary to the increasing number of more costly nonneonatal procedures, the annual expense was predicted to exceed pre-policy levels by 2015. The number of nonneonatal circumcisions is increasing and such procedures place a higher financial burden on the health care system. As a result, the financial benefits of noncoverage of elective circumcision are decreasing. Copyright © 2013 American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  11. The Africa Yoga Project: A Participant-Driven Concept Map of Kenyan Teachers' Reported Experiences.

    PubMed

    Klein, Jessalyn E; Cook-Cottone, Catherine; Giambrone, Carla

    2015-01-01

    The Africa Yoga Project (AYP) trains and funds Kenyans to teach community yoga classes. Preliminary research with a small sample of AYP teachers suggested the program had a positive impact. This study used concept mapping to explore the experiences of a larger sample. Participants brainstormed statements about how practicing and/or teaching yoga changed them. They sorted statements into self-defined piles and rated them in terms of perceived importance. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) of sort data calculated statement coordinates wherein each statement is placed in proximity to other statements as a function of how frequently statements are sorted together by participants. These results are then and mapped in a two-dimensional space. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) of these data identified clusters (i.e., concepts) among statements. Cluster average importance ratings gave the concept map depth and indicated concept importance. Bridging analysis and researchers' conceptual understanding of yoga literature facilitated HCA interpretive decisions. Of 72 AYP teachers, 52 and 48 teachers participated in brainstorming and sorting/rating activities, respectively. Teachers brainstormed 93 statements about how they had changed. The resultant MDS statement map had adequate validity (stress value = .29). HCA created a 12-cluster solution with the following concepts of perceived change: Identity as a Yoga Teacher; Prosocial Development; Existential Possibility; Genuine Positive Regard; Value and Respect for Others (highest importance); Presence, Acceptance, and Competence; Service and Trust; Non-judgment and Emotion Regulation (lowest importance); Engagement and Connection; Interpersonal Effectiveness; Psychosocial Functioning; and Physical Competence and Security. Teachers perceived the AYP as facilitating change across physical, mental, and spiritual domains. Additional research is needed to quantify and compare this change to other health promotion program outcomes.

  12. Virtual continuity of measurable functions and its applications

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vershik, A. M.; Zatitskii, P. B.; Petrov, F. V.

    2014-12-01

    A classical theorem of Luzin states that a measurable function of one real variable is `almost' continuous. For measurable functions of several variables the analogous statement (continuity on a product of sets having almost full measure) does not hold in general. The search for a correct analogue of Luzin's theorem leads to a notion of virtually continuous functions of several variables. This apparently new notion implicitly appears in the statements of embedding theorems and trace theorems for Sobolev spaces. In fact it reveals the nature of such theorems as statements about virtual continuity. The authors' results imply that under the conditions of Sobolev theorems there is a well-defined integration of a function with respect to a wide class of singular measures, including measures concentrated on submanifolds. The notion of virtual continuity is also used for the classification of measurable functions of several variables and in some questions on dynamical systems, the theory of polymorphisms, and bistochastic measures. In this paper the necessary definitions and properties of admissible metrics are recalled, several definitions of virtual continuity are given, and some applications are discussed. Bibliography: 24 titles.

  13. Lagrangian space consistency relation for large scale structure

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Horn, Bart; Hui, Lam; Xiao, Xiao, E-mail: bh2478@columbia.edu, E-mail: lh399@columbia.edu, E-mail: xx2146@columbia.edu

    Consistency relations, which relate the squeezed limit of an (N+1)-point correlation function to an N-point function, are non-perturbative symmetry statements that hold even if the associated high momentum modes are deep in the nonlinear regime and astrophysically complex. Recently, Kehagias and Riotto and Peloso and Pietroni discovered a consistency relation applicable to large scale structure. We show that this can be recast into a simple physical statement in Lagrangian space: that the squeezed correlation function (suitably normalized) vanishes. This holds regardless of whether the correlation observables are at the same time or not, and regardless of whether multiple-streaming is present.more » The simplicity of this statement suggests that an analytic understanding of large scale structure in the nonlinear regime may be particularly promising in Lagrangian space.« less

  14. 10 CFR 51.71 - Draft environmental impact statement-contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Draft environmental impact statement-contents. 51.71 Section 51.71 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National Environmental Policy Act-Regulations...

  15. 10 CFR 51.90 - Final environmental impact statement-general.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Final environmental impact statement-general. 51.90 Section 51.90 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National Environmental Policy Act-Regulations...

  16. 10 CFR 51.91 - Final environmental impact statement-contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Final environmental impact statement-contents. 51.91 Section 51.91 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National Environmental Policy Act-Regulations...

  17. Wessex Helicopter/Sonar Dynamics Study. ARL Program Description and Operation.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1979-02-01

    s): 5. Document Date: S illiams, Neil V. February, 1979 Guy, Christopher R. Williams, Maxwell J. 6. Type of Report and Period Covered: Gilbert, Neil...form with the aid of an analog computer type of block diagram, comprising a number of linked modules (called blocks), each one representing a particular...three types of statement, viz. configuration, parameter and function statements. The configuration statements describe the blocks used and specify the

  18. Differential cytology of cervical neoplasias

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Koenig, Rainer; Bergander, S.

    1990-11-01

    In the context of the early recognition of cervical cancer the cytology has to detect tumor positive cases among a bulk of un suspicious specimens. Unfortunately there is a group of cases with a vague diaxosis, the so called PAP-ill-group. There are many reasons for the recent impossibility of a safe conclusion from the PAP-Ill-smears to their histological diagnoses (Pig. 1). Today for an exact statement a cone biopsy and a microscopical investigation of its histological sections for such caseS are necessary. That results in a high medical and economical expense and, last not least, that means a higher risk of complications and of future family planning problems for the women affected.

  19. A new self-report inventory of dyslexia for students: criterion and construct validity.

    PubMed

    Tamboer, Peter; Vorst, Harrie C M

    2015-02-01

    The validity of a Dutch self-report inventory of dyslexia was ascertained in two samples of students. Six biographical questions, 20 general language statements and 56 specific language statements were based on dyslexia as a multi-dimensional deficit. Dyslexia and non-dyslexia were assessed with two criteria: identification with test results (Sample 1) and classification using biographical information (both samples). Using discriminant analyses, these criteria were predicted with various groups of statements. All together, 11 discriminant functions were used to estimate classification accuracy of the inventory. In Sample 1, 15 statements predicted the test criterion with classification accuracy of 98%, and 18 statements predicted the biographical criterion with classification accuracy of 97%. In Sample 2, 16 statements predicted the biographical criterion with classification accuracy of 94%. Estimations of positive and negative predictive value were 89% and 99%. Items of various discriminant functions were factor analysed to find characteristic difficulties of students with dyslexia, resulting in a five-factor structure in Sample 1 and a four-factor structure in Sample 2. Answer bias was investigated with measures of internal consistency reliability. Less than 20 self-report items are sufficient to accurately classify students with and without dyslexia. This supports the usefulness of self-assessment of dyslexia as a valid alternative to diagnostic test batteries. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  20. 18 CFR 367.9160 - Account 916, Miscellaneous sales expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... work not assigned to specific functions. (2) Special analysis of customer accounts and other statistical work for sales purposes not a part of the regular customer accounting and billing routine. (3... those chargeable to account 913, Advertising expenses (§ 367.9130). ...

  1. Communication Education Futures: An Inter-Com '76 Symposium.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Work, William, Comp.

    Nine position statements prepared for the proposed Inter-Com Symposium of 1976 are presented here. Contributions include the following: "A Philosophical Mini-Position-Statement" (William Work), "Development of Communication Resources through an Experiential Future-Focused Role-Image and Function-Oriented Curriculum: The Task of Communication…

  2. 10 CFR 51.94 - Requirement to consider final environmental impact statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Requirement to consider final environmental impact statement. 51.94 Section 51.94 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National Environmental Policy Act...

  3. 10 CFR 51.118 - Final environmental impact statement-notice of availability.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Final environmental impact statement-notice of availability. 51.118 Section 51.118 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National Environmental Policy Act...

  4. 75 FR 42762 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2010-07-22

    ... Planning, Research and Evaluation, which involved the exercise of this authority prior to the effective... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Statement of... authority pertaining to authorities delegated herein. (d) Effective Date. This delegation is effective on...

  5. 75 FR 28811 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2010-05-24

    ... comprehensive strategic human resource leadership and career training and development program for all... statement for the Office of Health and Safety (CAJP), insert the following: Human Capital Management Office... training programs; (3) develops, designs, and implements a comprehensive strategic human resource...

  6. 77 FR 42740 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2012-07-20

    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Statement of... Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid... (Organization) is revised as follows: Office of the Administrator (FC) Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil...

  7. 49 CFR 655.15 - Policy statement contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... immediately from his or her safety-sensitive function and be evaluated by a substance abuse professional, as..., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL MISUSE AND PROHIBITED DRUG USE IN TRANSIT OPERATIONS Program Requirements § 655.15 Policy statement contents. The local governing board of the employer or...

  8. 49 CFR 655.15 - Policy statement contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... immediately from his or her safety-sensitive function and be evaluated by a substance abuse professional, as..., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL MISUSE AND PROHIBITED DRUG USE IN TRANSIT OPERATIONS Program Requirements § 655.15 Policy statement contents. The local governing board of the employer or...

  9. 49 CFR 655.15 - Policy statement contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... immediately from his or her safety-sensitive function and be evaluated by a substance abuse professional, as..., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL MISUSE AND PROHIBITED DRUG USE IN TRANSIT OPERATIONS Program Requirements § 655.15 Policy statement contents. The local governing board of the employer or...

  10. 49 CFR 655.15 - Policy statement contents.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... immediately from his or her safety-sensitive function and be evaluated by a substance abuse professional, as..., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL MISUSE AND PROHIBITED DRUG USE IN TRANSIT OPERATIONS Program Requirements § 655.15 Policy statement contents. The local governing board of the employer or...

  11. 76 FR 65197 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2011-10-20

    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Statement of... Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.... Collaborates with OL on the development and advancement of new legislative initiatives and improvements. Serves...

  12. 10 CFR 51.104 - NRC proceeding using public hearings; consideration of environmental impact statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false NRC proceeding using public hearings; consideration of environmental impact statement. 51.104 Section 51.104 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS National...

  13. SOP: parallel surrogate global optimization with Pareto center selection for computationally expensive single objective problems

    DOE PAGES

    Krityakierne, Tipaluck; Akhtar, Taimoor; Shoemaker, Christine A.

    2016-02-02

    This paper presents a parallel surrogate-based global optimization method for computationally expensive objective functions that is more effective for larger numbers of processors. To reach this goal, we integrated concepts from multi-objective optimization and tabu search into, single objective, surrogate optimization. Our proposed derivative-free algorithm, called SOP, uses non-dominated sorting of points for which the expensive function has been previously evaluated. The two objectives are the expensive function value of the point and the minimum distance of the point to previously evaluated points. Based on the results of non-dominated sorting, P points from the sorted fronts are selected as centersmore » from which many candidate points are generated by random perturbations. Based on surrogate approximation, the best candidate point is subsequently selected for expensive evaluation for each of the P centers, with simultaneous computation on P processors. Centers that previously did not generate good solutions are tabu with a given tenure. We show almost sure convergence of this algorithm under some conditions. The performance of SOP is compared with two RBF based methods. The test results show that SOP is an efficient method that can reduce time required to find a good near optimal solution. In a number of cases the efficiency of SOP is so good that SOP with 8 processors found an accurate answer in less wall-clock time than the other algorithms did with 32 processors.« less

  14. 76 FR 44933 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    2011-07-27

    ...) Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (FCA) Office of Legislation (FCC) Office of the Actuary (FCE... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Statement of... Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

  15. IFSP Outcome Statements Made Simple

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shelden, M'Lisa L.; Rush, Dathan D.

    2014-01-01

    A critical component for implementing evidence-based early intervention supports and services is the ability to write family-centered, functional, participation-based outcomes. Participation-based outcome statements that are family-focused center on the desires and needs of the parents or other care providers and are based on their interest in…

  16. Text of Vatican's Draft Statement on the Role of Catholic Higher Education.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986

    1986-01-01

    The Vatican's statement on Catholic universities outlines the objective of strengthening Catholic higher education worldwide and discusses the ecclesiastical and pastoral functions of the institutions, their role in society and in the church, Catholic university types, the environment and curriculum orientations, and planning and cooperation. (MSE)

  17. 75 FR 6399 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegation of Authority

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    2010-02-09

    ... DUCS Case Managers which, in effect, involved the exercise of these authorities prior to the effective... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Statement of... the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (c) Effective Date This delegation of authority is effective...

  18. 76 FR 50223 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-08-12

    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of... Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980...). (1) Provides leadership, management, and oversight for all division activities; (2) provides...

  19. Design data needs modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Revision 2

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    NONE

    1987-03-01

    The Design Data Needs (DDNs) provide summary statements for program management, of the designer`s need for experimental data to confirm or validate assumptions made in the design. These assumptions were developed using the Integrated Approach and are tabulated in the Functional Analysis Report. These assumptions were also necessary in the analyses or trade studies (A/TS) to develop selections of hardware design or design requirements. Each DDN includes statements providing traceability to the function and the associated assumption that requires the need.

  20. Enhancing Clients' Communication Regarding Goals for Using Psychiatric Medications.

    PubMed

    Deegan, Patricia E; Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth; Drake, Robert E; Naslund, John A; Luciano, Alison; Hutchison, Shari L

    2017-08-01

    Discordance between psychiatric care providers' and clients' goals for medication treatment is prevalent and is a barrier to person-centered care. Power statements-short self-advocacy statements prepared by clients in response to a two-part template-offer a novel approach to help clients clarify and communicate their personal goals for using psychiatric medications. This study described the power statement method and examined a sample of power statements to understand clients' goals for medication treatment. More than 17,000 adults with serious mental illness at 69 public mental health clinics had the option to develop power statements by using a Web application located in the clinic waiting areas. A database query determined the percentage of clients who entered power statements into the Web application. The authors examined textual data from a random sample of 300 power statements by using content analysis. Nearly 14,000 (79%) clients developed power statements. Of the 277 statements in the sample deemed appropriate for content analysis, 272 statements had responses to the first part of the template and 230 had responses to the second part. Clients wanted psychiatric medications to help control symptoms in the service of improving functioning. Common goals for taking psychiatric medications (N=230 statements) were to enhance relationships (51%), well-being (32%), self-sufficiency (23%), employment (19%), hobbies (15%), and self-improvement (10%). People with serious mental illness typically viewed medications as a means to pursue meaningful life goals. Power statements appear to be a simple and scalable technique to enhance clients' communication of their goals for psychiatric medication treatment.

  1. AUTOMATED FLOWCHART SYSTEM FROM TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Woodford, W.

    1994-01-01

    An accurate flowchart is an important part of the documentation for any computer program. The flowchart offers the user an easy to follow overview of program operation and the maintenance programmer an effective debugging tool. The TAMU FLOWCHART System was developed to flowchart any program written in the FORTRAN language. It generates a line printer flowchart which is representative of the program logic. This flowchart provides the user with a detailed representation of the program action taken as each program statement is executed. The TAMU FLOWCHART System should prove to be a valuable aid to groups working with complex FORTRAN programs. Each statement in the program is displayed within a symbol which represents the program action during processing of the enclosed statement. Symbols available include: subroutine, function, and entry statements; arithmetic statements; input and output statements; arithmetical and logical IF statements; subroutine calls with or without argument list returns; computed and assigned GO TO statements; DO statements; STOP and RETURN statements; and CONTINUE and ASSIGN statements. Comment cards within the source program may be suppressed or displayed and associated with a succeeding source statement. Each symbol is annotated with a label (if present in the source code), a block number, and the statement sequence number. Program flow and options within the program are represented by line segments and direction indicators connecting symbols. The TAMU FLOWCHART System should be able to accurately flowchart any working FORTRAN program. This program is written in COBOL for batch execution and has been implemented on an IBM 370 series computer with an OS operating system and with a central memory requirement of approximately 380K of 8 bit bytes. The TAMU FLOWCHART System was developed in 1977.

  2. 20 CFR 220.145 - Impairment-related work expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... ACT DETERMINING DISABILITY Substantial Gainful Activity § 220.145 Impairment-related work expenses. (a... gainful activity, the Board will subtract the reasonable costs to the claimant of certain items and... adverse impact on the claimant's ability to function in his or her work activity. In this situation, the...

  3. 20 CFR 220.145 - Impairment-related work expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... ACT DETERMINING DISABILITY Substantial Gainful Activity § 220.145 Impairment-related work expenses. (a... gainful activity, the Board will subtract the reasonable costs to the claimant of certain items and... adverse impact on the claimant's ability to function in his or her work activity. In this situation, the...

  4. 20 CFR 220.145 - Impairment-related work expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... ACT DETERMINING DISABILITY Substantial Gainful Activity § 220.145 Impairment-related work expenses. (a... gainful activity, the Board will subtract the reasonable costs to the claimant of certain items and... adverse impact on the claimant's ability to function in his or her work activity. In this situation, the...

  5. 20 CFR 220.145 - Impairment-related work expenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... ACT DETERMINING DISABILITY Substantial Gainful Activity § 220.145 Impairment-related work expenses. (a... gainful activity, the Board will subtract the reasonable costs to the claimant of certain items and... adverse impact on the claimant's ability to function in his or her work activity. In this situation, the...

  6. 49 CFR 1242.05 - Operating expense account number notation.

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    2013-10-01

    ... group signifies applicable function assignment. ec03mr91.050 (b) For reporting purposes, four natural..., tools, supplies, fuels and lubricants (account 21-XX-XX); purchased services (accounts 31-XX-XX to 41-XX... account structure. For reporting purposes, the natural expense account numbers represented by “XX” include...

  7. 49 CFR 1242.05 - Operating expense account number notation.

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    2014-10-01

    ... group signifies applicable function assignment. ec03mr91.050 (b) For reporting purposes, four natural..., tools, supplies, fuels and lubricants (account 21-XX-XX); purchased services (accounts 31-XX-XX to 41-XX... account structure. For reporting purposes, the natural expense account numbers represented by “XX” include...

  8. 49 CFR 1242.05 - Operating expense account number notation.

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    2012-10-01

    ... group signifies applicable function assignment. ec03mr91.050 (b) For reporting purposes, four natural..., tools, supplies, fuels and lubricants (account 21-XX-XX); purchased services (accounts 31-XX-XX to 41-XX... account structure. For reporting purposes, the natural expense account numbers represented by “XX” include...

  9. 49 CFR 1242.05 - Operating expense account number notation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... group signifies applicable function assignment. ec03mr91.050 (b) For reporting purposes, four natural..., tools, supplies, fuels and lubricants (account 21-XX-XX); purchased services (accounts 31-XX-XX to 41-XX... account structure. For reporting purposes, the natural expense account numbers represented by “XX” include...

  10. Constellation Program Lessons Learned. Volume 2; Detailed Lessons Learned

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    Rhatigan, Jennifer; Neubek, Deborah J.; Thomas, L. Dale

    2011-01-01

    These lessons learned are part of a suite of hardware, software, test results, designs, knowledge base, and documentation that comprises the legacy of the Constellation Program. The context, summary information, and lessons learned are presented in a factual format, as known and described at the time. While our opinions might be discernable in the context, we have avoided all but factually sustainable statements. Statements should not be viewed as being either positive or negative; their value lies in what we did and what we learned that is worthy of passing on. The lessons include both "dos" and "don ts." In many cases, one person s "do" can be viewed as another person s "don t"; therefore, we have attempted to capture both perspectives when applicable and useful. While Volume I summarizes the views of those who managed the program, this Volume II encompasses the views at the working level, describing how the program challenges manifested in day-to-day activities. Here we see themes that were perhaps hinted at, but not completely addressed, in Volume I: unintended consequences of policies that worked well at higher levels but lacked proper implementation at the working level; long-term effects of the "generation gap" in human space flight development, the need to demonstrate early successes at the expense of thorough planning, and the consequences of problems and challenges not yet addressed because other problems and challenges were more immediate or manifest. Not all lessons learned have the benefit of being operationally vetted, since the program was cancelled shortly after Preliminary Design Review. We avoid making statements about operational consequences (with the exception of testing and test flights that did occur), but we do attempt to provide insight into how operational thinking influenced design and testing. The lessons have been formatted with a description, along with supporting information, a succinct statement of the lesson learned, and recommendations for future programs and projects that may be placed in similar circumstances.

  11. Priority setting in public and private health care. A guide through the ideological jungle.

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    Williams, A

    1988-06-01

    Priority setting means deciding who is to get what at whose expense. In the context of health care, the 'what' is that statement refers to different sorts of health care, and the 'who' to different sorts of people. The 'whose expense' is not so straightforward. It appears to refer to 'who will pay the bill', and in a public health care system this might seem to be the government, though behind the government stands the taxpayer, and that means all of us. Even in a private health care system it is rarely the patient who meets the bill directly, for some or all of it will be met by an insurer, and the costs of any particular treatment episode will be spread over many premium-payers. But in the context of an economic, rather than a financial, analysis the phrase 'at whose expense' has to be interpreted in a different way, based on the notion of opportunity cost, rather than on the notion of expenditure. When so reinterpreted, it means 'who is to go without' health care in order that other shall have it. Giving priority to one group of people means taking it away from another group, though for obvious reasons politicians tend not to dwell on this implication, leaving us to infer, from what is not said, who the 'low priority' groups are. In any honest and open discussion of these issues, however, that implication must be faced squarely, and we must not shrink from identifying who (implicitly) the 'low priority' people are, in any particular system of health care.

  12. Efficiency, cost-effectiveness and need of inversion in nutritional therapy. Importance of detecting and documenting undernutrition.

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    Morán López, Jesús Manuel; Piedra León, María; Beneítez Moralejo, Belén; Enciso Izquierdo, Fidel Jesús; Luengo Pérez, Luis Miguel; Amado Señaris, José Antonio

    2016-06-01

    Disease Related Malnutrition (DRM) is highly prevalent in Spanish hospitals. WHO estimates that 20-40% of health-associated expenses are lost due to inefficiency. Demonstration that DRM is a component of inefficiency and hiring a specialist physician for its detection and treatment is cost-effective. Comparison between nutritional diagnosis and procedures detected and encoded at discharge using McNemar test. Recoding of 162 discharge reports including nutritional diagnoses and procedures. Determine changes on Case-Mix Index (IC), cost of procedure and cost procedure/DRG index. Comparison using T-student paired test. Only 10 of 162 diagnoses of malnutrition were coded in delivery statements (p < 0.001). After right codification, IC increased in 103,3 DRG points (p < 0.001). Consequently, procedure cost/DRG index was reduced in 978.81 € (p < 0.001). DRM is underdiagnosed in our hospital. DRM and nutritional procedures detection by a doctor specialist in clinical nutrition led to a reduction in cost procedure/DRG index of 16.8% of officially established by the Health System. Loss of 16.8% of health expenses, estimated in 424.785,15 € was described. Proper codification would have justified 343.291,2 € reimbursement just for nutritional diagnoses and processes. Both expenses were lost due to system's inefficiency. Those amounts are much higher than cost associated of hiring a specialist in clinical nutrition. Copyright © 2016 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  13. [Efficiency, cost-effectiveness and justification of need for investment in nutrition therapy in a hospital of third level; the role of specialists in endocrinology and nutrition and the coding unit].

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    Morán López, Jesús Manuel; Enciso Izquierdo, Fidel Jesús; Beneítez Moralejo, Belén; Luengo Pérez, Luis Miguel; Piedra León, María; Amado Señaris, José Antonio

    2015-04-01

    Disease Related Malnutrition (DRM) is highly prevalent in Spanish hospitals. WHO estimates that 20-40% of health-associated expenses are lost due to inefficiency. Demonstration that DRM is a component of inefficiency and hiring a specialist physician for its detection and treatment is cost-effective. Comparison between nutritional diagnosis and procedures detected and encoded at discharge using McNemar test. Recoding of 55 discharge reports including nutritional diagnoses and procedures. Determine changes on Case-Mix Index (IC), cost of procedure and cost procedure/GRD index. Comparison using Wilcoxon test. Only 2 of 55 diagnoses of malnutrition were coded in delivery statements (p<0,001). After right codification,IC increased in 42,67 GRD points (p<0,05). Consequently, procedure cost/GRD index was reduced in 976,81€ (p<0,05). DRM is underdiagnosed in our hospital. DRM and nutritional procedures detection by a specialist on endocrinology and nutrition led to a reduction in cost procedure/GRD index of 20% of officially established by the Health System. Loss of 20% of health expenses,estimated in 172690€ was described. Proper codification would have justified 154581€ reimbursement just for nutritional diagnoses and processes. Both expenses were lost due to system's inefficiency. Those amounts are much higher than cost associated of hiring a specialist, so there is no economic reason for denying it. Copyright AULA MEDICA EDICIONES 2014. Published by AULA MEDICA. All rights reserved.

  14. The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad--Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S).

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    Mountjoy, Margo; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn; Burke, Louise; Carter, Susan; Constantini, Naama; Lebrun, Constance; Meyer, Nanna; Sherman, Roberta; Steffen, Kathrin; Budgett, Richard; Ljungqvist, Arne

    2014-04-01

    Protecting the health of the athlete is a goal of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC convened an expert panel to update the 2005 IOC Consensus Statement on the Female Athlete Triad. This Consensus Statement replaces the previous and provides guidelines to guide risk assessment, treatment and return-to-play decisions. The IOC expert working group introduces a broader, more comprehensive term for the condition previously known as 'Female Athlete Triad'. The term 'Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport' (RED-S), points to the complexity involved and the fact that male athletes are also affected. The syndrome of RED-S refers to impaired physiological function including, but not limited to, metabolic rate, menstrual function, bone health, immunity, protein synthesis, cardiovascular health caused by relative energy deficiency. The cause of this syndrome is energy deficiency relative to the balance between dietary energy intake and energy expenditure required for health and activities of daily living, growth and sporting activities. Psychological consequences can either precede RED-S or be the result of RED-S. The clinical phenomenon is not a 'triad' of the three entities of energy availability, menstrual function and bone health, but rather a syndrome that affects many aspects of physiological function, health and athletic performance. This Consensus Statement also recommends practical clinical models for the management of affected athletes. The 'Sport Risk Assessment and Return to Play Model' categorises the syndrome into three groups and translates these classifications into clinical recommendations.

  15. 21 CFR 101.93 - Certain types of statements for dietary supplements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... the body such that it does not function properly (e.g., cardiovascular disease), or a state of health... Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. (2) Where there is... any disease. (d) Placement. The disclaimer shall be placed adjacent to the statement with no...

  16. Children's Requests to Unfamiliar Adults: Form, Social Function, Age Variation.

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    Gordon, David Paul; And Others

    Elementary school students were required to obtain objects from two adults engaged in conversation with each other. Results differed markedly between older and younger children. For the younger children, (1) there were three times as many statement requests (SRs) as interrogative requests (IRs); (2) almost 50% of requests were need statements; (3)…

  17. Emotional state and local versus global spatial memory.

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    Brunyé, Tad T; Mahoney, Caroline R; Augustyn, Jason S; Taylor, Holly A

    2009-02-01

    The present work investigated the effects of participant emotional state on global versus local memory for map-based information. Participants were placed into one of four emotion induction groups, crossing high and low arousal with positive and negative valence, or a control group. They then studied a university campus map and completed two memory tests, free recall and spatial statement verification. Converging evidence from these two tasks demonstrated that arousal amplifies symbolic distance effects and leads to a globally-focused spatial mental representation, partially at the expense of local knowledge. These results were found for both positively- and negatively-valenced affective states. The present study is the first investigation of emotional effects on spatial memory, and has implications for theories of emotion and spatial cognition.

  18. Academic Pancreas Centers of Excellence: Guidance from a multidisciplinary chronic pancreatitis working group at PancreasFest

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    Sheth, Sunil G.; Conwell, Darwin L.; Whitcomb, David C.; Alsante, Matthew; Anderson, Michelle A.; Barkin, Jamie; Brand, Randall; Cote, Gregory A.; Freedman, Steven D.; Gelrud, Andres; Gorelick, Fred; Lee, Linda S.; Morgan, Katherine; Pandol, Stephen; Singh, Vikesh K.; Yadav, Dhiraj; Mel Wilcox, C.; Hart, Phil A.

    2017-01-01

    Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease, which leads to loss of pancreatic function and other disease-related morbidities. A group of academic physicians and scientists developed comprehensive guidance statements regarding the management of CP that include its epidemiology, diagnosis, medical treatment, surgical treatment, and screening. The statements were developed through literature review, deliberation, and consensus opinion. These statements were ultimately used to develop a conceptual framework for the multidisciplinary management of chronic pancreatitis referred to as an academic pancreas center of excellence (APCOE). PMID:28268158

  19. Numerical experience with a class of algorithms for nonlinear optimization using inexact function and gradient information

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    Carter, Richard G.

    1989-01-01

    For optimization problems associated with engineering design, parameter estimation, image reconstruction, and other optimization/simulation applications, low accuracy function and gradient values are frequently much less expensive to obtain than high accuracy values. Here, researchers investigate the computational performance of trust region methods for nonlinear optimization when high accuracy evaluations are unavailable or prohibitively expensive, and confirm earlier theoretical predictions when the algorithm is convergent even with relative gradient errors of 0.5 or more. The proper choice of the amount of accuracy to use in function and gradient evaluations can result in orders-of-magnitude savings in computational cost.

  20. Microscopic enteritis: Bucharest consensus

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    Rostami, Kamran; Aldulaimi, David; Holmes, Geoffrey; Johnson, Matt W; Robert, Marie; Srivastava, Amitabh; Fléjou, Jean-François; Sanders, David S; Volta, Umberto; Derakhshan, Mohammad H; Going, James J; Becheanu, Gabriel; Catassi, Carlo; Danciu, Mihai; Materacki, Luke; Ghafarzadegan, Kamran; Ishaq, Sauid; Rostami-Nejad, Mohammad; Peña, A Salvador; Bassotti, Gabrio; Marsh, Michael N; Villanacci, Vincenzo

    2015-01-01

    Microscopic enteritis (ME) is an inflammatory condition of the small bowel that leads to gastrointestinal symptoms, nutrient and micronutrient deficiency. It is characterised by microscopic or sub-microscopic abnormalities such as microvillus changes and enterocytic alterations in the absence of definite macroscopic changes using standard modern endoscopy. This work recognises a need to characterize disorders with microscopic and submicroscopic features, currently regarded as functional or non-specific entities, to obtain further understanding of their clinical relevance. The consensus working party reviewed statements about the aetiology, diagnosis and symptoms associated with ME and proposes an algorithm for its investigation and treatment. Following the 5th International Course in Digestive Pathology in Bucharest in November 2012, an international group of 21 interested pathologists and gastroenterologists formed a working party with a view to formulating a consensus statement on ME. A five-step agreement scale (from strong agreement to strong disagreement) was used to score 21 statements, independently. There was strong agreement on all statements about ME histology (95%-100%). Statements concerning diagnosis achieved 85% to 100% agreement. A statement on the management of ME elicited agreement from the lowest rate (60%) up to 100%. The remaining two categories showed general agreement between experts on clinical presentation (75%-95%) and pathogenesis (80%-90%) of ME. There was strong agreement on the histological definition of ME. Weaker agreement on management indicates a need for further investigations, better definitions and clinical trials to produce quality guidelines for management. This ME consensus is a step toward greater recognition of a significant entity affecting symptomatic patients previously labelled as non-specific or functional enteropathy. PMID:25759526

  1. Microscopic enteritis: Bucharest consensus.

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    Rostami, Kamran; Aldulaimi, David; Holmes, Geoffrey; Johnson, Matt W; Robert, Marie; Srivastava, Amitabh; Fléjou, Jean-François; Sanders, David S; Volta, Umberto; Derakhshan, Mohammad H; Going, James J; Becheanu, Gabriel; Catassi, Carlo; Danciu, Mihai; Materacki, Luke; Ghafarzadegan, Kamran; Ishaq, Sauid; Rostami-Nejad, Mohammad; Peña, A Salvador; Bassotti, Gabrio; Marsh, Michael N; Villanacci, Vincenzo

    2015-03-07

    Microscopic enteritis (ME) is an inflammatory condition of the small bowel that leads to gastrointestinal symptoms, nutrient and micronutrient deficiency. It is characterised by microscopic or sub-microscopic abnormalities such as microvillus changes and enterocytic alterations in the absence of definite macroscopic changes using standard modern endoscopy. This work recognises a need to characterize disorders with microscopic and submicroscopic features, currently regarded as functional or non-specific entities, to obtain further understanding of their clinical relevance. The consensus working party reviewed statements about the aetiology, diagnosis and symptoms associated with ME and proposes an algorithm for its investigation and treatment. Following the 5(th) International Course in Digestive Pathology in Bucharest in November 2012, an international group of 21 interested pathologists and gastroenterologists formed a working party with a view to formulating a consensus statement on ME. A five-step agreement scale (from strong agreement to strong disagreement) was used to score 21 statements, independently. There was strong agreement on all statements about ME histology (95%-100%). Statements concerning diagnosis achieved 85% to 100% agreement. A statement on the management of ME elicited agreement from the lowest rate (60%) up to 100%. The remaining two categories showed general agreement between experts on clinical presentation (75%-95%) and pathogenesis (80%-90%) of ME. There was strong agreement on the histological definition of ME. Weaker agreement on management indicates a need for further investigations, better definitions and clinical trials to produce quality guidelines for management. This ME consensus is a step toward greater recognition of a significant entity affecting symptomatic patients previously labelled as non-specific or functional enteropathy.

  2. 76 FR 4516 - Revisions to Forms, Statements, and Reporting Requirements for Natural Gas Pipelines

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    ...; Order No. 710-B] Revisions to Forms, Statements, and Reporting Requirements for Natural Gas Pipelines... for natural gas companies, contained in FERC Form Nos. 2, 2-A, and 3-Q, to include functionalized fuel..., and reports for natural gas companies, contained in FERC Form Nos. 2, 2-A, and 3-Q, to include...

  3. A Users Guide for the NASA ANOPP Propeller Analysis System

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    Nguygen, L. Cathy; Kelly, Jeffrey J.

    1997-01-01

    The purpose of this report is to document improvements to the Propeller Analysis System of the Aircraft Noise Prediction Program (PAS-ANOPP) and to serve as a users guide. An overview of the functional modules and modifications made to the Propeller ANOPP system are described. Propeller noise predictions are made by executing a sequence of functional modules through the use of ANOPP control statements. The most commonly used ANOPP control statements are discussed with detailed examples demonstrating the use of each control statement. Originally, the Propeller Analysis System included the angle-of-attack only in the performance module. Recently, modifications have been made to also include angle-of-attack in the noise prediction module. A brief description of PAS prediction capabilities is presented which illustrate the input requirements necessary to run the code by way of ten templates. The purpose of the templates are to provide PAS users with complete examples which can be modified to serve their particular purposes. The examples include the use of different approximations in the computation of the noise and the effects of synchrophasing. Since modifications have been made to the original PAS-ANOPP, comparisons of the modified ANOPP and wind tunnel data are also included. Two appendices are attached at the end of this report which provide useful reference material. One appendix summarizes the PAS functional modules while the second provides a detailed discussion of the TABLE control statement.

  4. Financial Report of Ontario Universities 1991-92, Volume III-Physical Plant Operating Expenses.

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    Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto.

    This report provides an analysis of the physical plant costs, by major functional area and object of expense, as reported in the operating fund of each university in Ontario, Canada. The report begins with a brief introduction; a description of the principles governing the reporting process; and definitions and explanatory comment on the physical…

  5. Financial Report of Ontario Universities 1990-91, Volume III: Physical Plant Operating Expenses.

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    Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto.

    This report provides an analysis of the physical plant costs, by major functional area and object of expense, as reported in the operating fund of each university in Ontario, Canada. The report begins with a brief introduction; a description of the principles governing the reporting process; and definitions and explanatory comment on the physical…

  6. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Krityakierne, Tipaluck; Akhtar, Taimoor; Shoemaker, Christine A.

    This paper presents a parallel surrogate-based global optimization method for computationally expensive objective functions that is more effective for larger numbers of processors. To reach this goal, we integrated concepts from multi-objective optimization and tabu search into, single objective, surrogate optimization. Our proposed derivative-free algorithm, called SOP, uses non-dominated sorting of points for which the expensive function has been previously evaluated. The two objectives are the expensive function value of the point and the minimum distance of the point to previously evaluated points. Based on the results of non-dominated sorting, P points from the sorted fronts are selected as centersmore » from which many candidate points are generated by random perturbations. Based on surrogate approximation, the best candidate point is subsequently selected for expensive evaluation for each of the P centers, with simultaneous computation on P processors. Centers that previously did not generate good solutions are tabu with a given tenure. We show almost sure convergence of this algorithm under some conditions. The performance of SOP is compared with two RBF based methods. The test results show that SOP is an efficient method that can reduce time required to find a good near optimal solution. In a number of cases the efficiency of SOP is so good that SOP with 8 processors found an accurate answer in less wall-clock time than the other algorithms did with 32 processors.« less

  7. A Rigorous Framework for Optimization of Expensive Functions by Surrogates

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    Booker, Andrew J.; Dennis, J. E., Jr.; Frank, Paul D.; Serafini, David B.; Torczon, Virginia; Trosset, Michael W.

    1998-01-01

    The goal of the research reported here is to develop rigorous optimization algorithms to apply to some engineering design problems for which design application of traditional optimization approaches is not practical. This paper presents and analyzes a framework for generating a sequence of approximations to the objective function and managing the use of these approximations as surrogates for optimization. The result is to obtain convergence to a minimizer of an expensive objective function subject to simple constraints. The approach is widely applicable because it does not require, or even explicitly approximate, derivatives of the objective. Numerical results are presented for a 31-variable helicopter rotor blade design example and for a standard optimization test example.

  8. Placebo effect of medication cost in Parkinson disease: a randomized double-blind study.

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    Espay, Alberto J; Norris, Matthew M; Eliassen, James C; Dwivedi, Alok; Smith, Matthew S; Banks, Christi; Allendorfer, Jane B; Lang, Anthony E; Fleck, David E; Linke, Michael J; Szaflarski, Jerzy P

    2015-02-24

    To examine the effect of cost, a traditionally "inactive" trait of intervention, as contributor to the response to therapeutic interventions. We conducted a prospective double-blind study in 12 patients with moderate to severe Parkinson disease and motor fluctuations (mean age 62.4 ± 7.9 years; mean disease duration 11 ± 6 years) who were randomized to a "cheap" or "expensive" subcutaneous "novel injectable dopamine agonist" placebo (normal saline). Patients were crossed over to the alternate arm approximately 4 hours later. Blinded motor assessments in the "practically defined off" state, before and after each intervention, included the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale motor subscale, the Purdue Pegboard Test, and a tapping task. Measurements of brain activity were performed using a feedback-based visual-motor associative learning functional MRI task. Order effect was examined using stratified analysis. Although both placebos improved motor function, benefit was greater when patients were randomized first to expensive placebo, with a magnitude halfway between that of cheap placebo and levodopa. Brain activation was greater upon first-given cheap but not upon first-given expensive placebo or by levodopa. Regardless of order of administration, only cheap placebo increased activation in the left lateral sensorimotor cortex and other regions. Expensive placebo significantly improved motor function and decreased brain activation in a direction and magnitude comparable to, albeit less than, levodopa. Perceptions of cost are capable of altering the placebo response in clinical studies. This study provides Class III evidence that perception of cost is capable of influencing motor function and brain activation in Parkinson disease. © 2015 American Academy of Neurology.

  9. Genre Analysis of Personal Statements: Analysis of Moves in Application Essays to Medical and Dental Schools

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    Ding, Huiling

    2007-01-01

    Despite the important role the personal statement plays in the graduate school application processes, little research has been done on its functional features and little instruction has been given about it in academic writing courses. The author conducted a multi-level discourse analysis on a corpus of 30 medical/dental school application letters,…

  10. One-Year Test-Retest Reliability of the Inventory of Statements about Self-Injury (ISAS)

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    Glenn, Catherine R.; Klonsky, E. David

    2011-01-01

    Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a growing public health problem among adolescents and young adults. The Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury (ISAS) is a self-report measure designed to assess NSSI behaviors and functions. The current study examines the one-year test-retest reliability of the ISAS in a sample of young adult self-injurers.…

  11. 45 CFR 701.13 - Staff organization and functions.

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    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Staff organization and functions. 701.13 Section... ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION Organization Statement § 701.13 Staff organization and functions. The Commission staff organization and function are as follows: (a) Office of the Staff Director. Under...

  12. 45 CFR 701.13 - Staff organization and functions.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Staff organization and functions. 701.13 Section... ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION Organization Statement § 701.13 Staff organization and functions. The Commission staff organization and function are as follows: (a) Office of the Staff Director. Under...

  13. 45 CFR 701.13 - Staff organization and functions.

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    2013-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Staff organization and functions. 701.13 Section... ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION Organization Statement § 701.13 Staff organization and functions. The Commission staff organization and function are as follows: (a) Office of the Staff Director. Under...

  14. 45 CFR 701.13 - Staff organization and functions.

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    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Staff organization and functions. 701.13 Section... ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION Organization Statement § 701.13 Staff organization and functions. The Commission staff organization and function are as follows: (a) Office of the Staff Director. Under...

  15. 45 CFR 701.13 - Staff organization and functions.

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    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Staff organization and functions. 701.13 Section... ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION Organization Statement § 701.13 Staff organization and functions. The Commission staff organization and function are as follows: (a) Office of the Staff Director. Under...

  16. Societal views on orphan drugs: cross sectional survey of Norwegians aged 40 to 67

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    Gyrd-Hansen, Dorte; Olsen, Jan Abel; Grepperud, Sverre; Kristiansen, Ivar Sønbø

    2010-01-01

    Objective To determine whether a general societal preference for prioritising treatment of rare diseases over common ones exists and could provide a justification for accepting higher cost effectiveness thresholds for orphan drugs. Design Cross sectional survey using a web based questionnaire. Setting Norway. Participants Random sample of 1547 Norwegians aged 40-67. Main outcome measure Choice between funding treatment for a rare disease versus a common disease and how funds should be allocated if it were not possible to treat all patients, for each of two scenarios: identical treatment costs per patient and higher costs for the rare disease. Respondents rated five statements concerning attitudes to equity on a five point Likert scale (5=completely agree). Results For the equal cost scenario, 11.2% (9.6% to 12.8%) of respondents favoured treating the rare disease, 24.9% (21.7% to 26.0%) the common disease, and 64.9% (62.6% to 67.3%) were indifferent. When the rare disease was four times more costly to treat, the results were, respectively, 7.4% (6.1% to 8.7%), 45.3% (42.8% to 47.8%), and 47.3% (44.8% to 49.8%). Rankings for attitude on a Likert scale indicated strong support for the statements “rare disease patients should have the right to treatment even if more expensive” (mean score 4.5, SD 0.86) and “resources should be used to provide the greatest possible health benefits” (3.9, 1.23). Conclusions Despite strong general support for statements expressing a desire for equal treatment rights for patients with rare diseases, there was little evidence that a societal preference for rarity exists if treatment of patients with rare diseases is at the expense of treatment of those with common diseases. PMID:20861122

  17. Neural differences in the processing of true and false sentences: insights into the nature of 'truth' in language comprehension.

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    Marques, J Frederico; Canessa, Nicola; Cappa, Stefano

    2009-06-01

    The inquiry on the nature of truth in language comprehension has a long history of opposite perspectives. These perspectives either consider that there are qualitative differences in the processing of true and false statements, or that these processes are fundamentally the same and only differ in quantitative terms. The present study evaluated the processing nature of true and false statements in terms of patterns of brain activity using event-related functional-Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging (fMRI). We show that when true and false concept-feature statements are controlled for relation strength/ambiguity, their processing is associated to qualitatively different processes. Verifying true statements activates the left inferior parietal cortex and the caudate nucleus, a neural correlate compatible with an extended search and matching process for particular stored information. In contrast, verifying false statements activates the fronto-polar cortex and is compatible with a reasoning process of finding and evaluating a contradiction between the sentence information and stored knowledge.

  18. [Comparison of three histometric methods for the comprehension of stimulating effects on the rat thyroid gland].

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    Herrmann, F; Hambsch, K; Wolf, T; Rother, P; Müller, P

    1989-01-01

    There exist some histometric methods for the morphological quantification of different strongly stimulating effects on the thyroid gland induced by drugs and/or other chemical substances in dependence upon dose and duration of application. But in respect of technical and temporal expense and also diagnostic statement, there are considerable differences between these recording procedures. Therefore we examined the 3 mostly used methods synchronously (i.e. determination of thyroid epithelial cell height, nuclear volume in thyrocytes, and estimation of relative volume parts in the thyroid gland by the point counting method) by investigating the thyroid glands of methylthiouracil-(MTU)-stimulated rats and corresponding controls in order to compare the diagnostic value and temporal expense. The largest temporal expense was required in the nuclear volume determination, the smallest in the point-counting method. On principle, all 3 procedures allow the determination of hypertrophic alterations but only by help of the point-counting method, also hyperplastic changes are recognizable. By nuclear volume determination, we found significant differences between central and peripheral parts of the thyroid gland. Therefore, to avoid the subjective error, it will be necessary to measure a large number of nuclei in many planes of the gland. Also the determination of epithelial cell high reinforces the subjective error because of the heterological structure especially in unstimulated thyroid gland. If the number of counting points is exactly determined and, full of sense, limited, the point-counting method allows a nearly complete measuring of the whole object to be tested within an acceptable investigation time. In this way, the heterological structure of thyroid gland will be regarded, and comparability and reproducibility are guaranteed on an high level.

  19. 14 CFR Section 7 - Chart of Profit and Loss Accounts

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    2010-01-01

    ... profit and loss elements Functional or financial activity to which applicable (00) Group I carriers Group... food—gross revenues 48 48 48. 09.2Movies and stereo—gross revenues 48 48 48. 09.3Other—gross revenues 48 48 48. 09.4Liquor and food—depreciation expense 71 71 71. 09.5Liquor and food—other expense 71 71...

  20. Question/statement judgments: an fMRI study of intonation processing.

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    Doherty, Colin P; West, W Caroline; Dilley, Laura C; Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie; Caplan, David

    2004-10-01

    We examined changes in fMRI BOLD signal associated with question/statement judgments in an event-related paradigm to investigate the neural basis of processing one aspect of intonation. Subjects made judgments about digitized recordings of three types of utterances: questions with rising intonation (RQ; e.g., "She was talking to her father?"), statements with a falling intonation (FS; e.g., "She was talking to her father."), and questions with a falling intonation and a word order change (FQ; e.g., "Was she talking to her father?"). Functional echo planar imaging (EPI) scans were collected from 11 normal subjects. There was increased BOLD activity in bilateral inferior frontal and temporal regions for RQ over either FQ or FS stimuli. The study provides data relevant to the location of regions responsive to intonationally marked illocutionary differences between questions and statements.

  1. SUMC/MPOS/HAL interface study

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    Saponaro, J. A.; Kosmala, A. L.

    1973-01-01

    The implementation of the HAL/S language on the IBM-360, and in particular the mechanization of its real time, I/O, and error control statements within the OS-360 environment is described. The objectives are twofold: (1) An analysis and general description of HAL/S real time, I/O, and error control statements and the structure required to mechanize these statements. The emphasis is on describing the logical functions performed upon execution of each HAL statement rather than defining whether it is accomplished by the compiler or operating system. (2) An identification of the OS-360 facilities required during execution of HAL/S code as implemented for the current HAL/S-360 compiler; and an evaluation of the aspects involved with interfacing HAL/S with the SUMC operating system utilizing either the HAL/S-360 compiler or by designing a new HAL/S-SUMC compiler.

  2. The NASA role in major areas of human concern: Transportation

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    1973-01-01

    After introducing some of the general factors that have affected progress in the transportation area, NASA program elements are examined to illustrate relevant points of contact. Interpretive steps are taken throughout the statement to show a few of the more important ways people's lives have been affected as a result of the work of NASA and other organizations functioning in this area. The principal documents used and interviews conducted are identified after the conclusion of this statement. This statement, it should be noted, is incomplete in many respects, primarily because it reflects only a small number of the technical, economic, and social forces affecting American life. Taken as a summary statement, however, it hopefully will provide a useful basis for better understanding NASA's role in the national attempt to upgrade the quality of transportation services.

  3. Using a Teaching Philosophy Statement as a Professional Development Tool for Teacher Candidates

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    Caukin, Nancy G.; Brinthaupt, Thomas M.

    2017-01-01

    Most new teachers are expected to develop a teaching philosophy statement (TPS). In the present paper, we describe some of the major functions of a TPS and how it can be beneficial to the professional development of teacher candidates. We then describe a case example of a Residency I program and how the features of that program help teacher…

  4. Multivalent Peptidomimetic Conjugates as Inhibitors of Androgen Receptor Function in Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer

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    2017-10-01

    STATEMENT: Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author...S) 12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Androgens are ...hormones that play a critical role in stimulating prostate cancer growth. Androgens activate a protein called the androgen receptor ( AR ), which

  5. Students' Conceptualisations of Function Revealed through Definitions and Examples

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    Ayalon, Michal; Watson, Anne; Lerman, Steve

    2017-01-01

    This study aims to explore the conceptualisations of function that some students express when they are responding to fictitious students' statements about functions. We also asked them what is meant by "function" and many voluntarily used examples in their responses. The task was developed in collaboration with teachers from two…

  6. [Study on the fund to ensure the implementation of public function of province-level, city-level and county-level center of disease prevention and control in China].

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    Chang, Feng-shui; Wang, Ying; Luo, Li; Sun, Mei

    2005-11-01

    To calculate the fund to ensure the implementation of public function of province-level, city-level and county-level center of disease prevention and control in China. The principle was to fulfill public function, promote professional efficiency and give a comprehensive attention to employee depletion. Basic data were collected by sample CDC investigation. Value of some special indicators was demonstrated by specialist group. Results To ensure the implementation of public function, a total of 15.7 billion Yen per year should be allocated to all province-level, city-level and county-level center of disease prevention and control. The personnel expenses was 8.4 billion Yen and the daily expenses was 7.4 billion Yen per year.

  7. 47 CFR 69.603 - Association functions.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Association functions. 69.603 Section 69.603... Exchange Carrier Association § 69.603 Association functions. (a) The Association shall not engage in any... with association functions pursuant to § 69.603 (c)-(g), and those expenses that pertain to Commission...

  8. Simple analysis of scattering data with the Ornstein-Zernike equation

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    Kats, E. I.; Muratov, A. R.

    2018-01-01

    In this paper we propose and explore a method of analysis of the scattering experimental data for uniform liquidlike systems. In our pragmatic approach we are not trying to introduce by hands an artificial small parameter to work out a perturbation theory with respect to the known results, e.g., for hard spheres or sticky hard spheres (all the more that in the agreement with the notorious Landau statement, there is no physical small parameter for liquids). Instead of it being guided by the experimental data we are solving the Ornstein-Zernike equation with a trial (variational) form of the interparticle interaction potential. To find all needed correlation functions this variational input is iterated numerically to satisfy the Ornstein-Zernike equation supplemented by a closure relation. Our method is developed for spherically symmetric scattering objects, and our numeric code is written for such a case. However, it can be extended (at the expense of more involved computations and a larger amount of required experimental input information) for nonspherical particles. What is important for our approach is that it is sufficient to know experimental data in a relatively narrow range of the scattering wave vectors (q ) to compute the static structure factor in a much broader range of q . We illustrate by a few model and real experimental examples of the x-ray and neutron scattering data how the approach works.

  9. 78 FR 73816 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Survey. OMB Control Number: 0535-0220. Summary of Collection: Primary function of the National..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples... the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have...

  10. 49 CFR 107.503 - Registration statement.

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    2010-10-01

    ... Inspector” or “Design Certifying Engineer”. The following language may be used. I certify that all Registered Inspectors and Design Certifying Engineers used in performance of the prescribed functions meet... requirements applicable to the functions to be performed. (5) A description of the specific functions to be...

  11. Automated extraction of family history information from clinical notes.

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    Bill, Robert; Pakhomov, Serguei; Chen, Elizabeth S; Winden, Tamara J; Carter, Elizabeth W; Melton, Genevieve B

    2014-01-01

    Despite increased functionality for obtaining family history in a structured format within electronic health record systems, clinical notes often still contain this information. We developed and evaluated an Unstructured Information Management Application (UIMA)-based natural language processing (NLP) module for automated extraction of family history information with functionality for identifying statements, observations (e.g., disease or procedure), relative or side of family with attributes (i.e., vital status, age of diagnosis, certainty, and negation), and predication ("indicator phrases"), the latter of which was used to establish relationships between observations and family member. The family history NLP system demonstrated F-scores of 66.9, 92.4, 82.9, 57.3, 97.7, and 61.9 for detection of family history statements, family member identification, observation identification, negation identification, vital status, and overall extraction of the predications between family members and observations, respectively. While the system performed well for detection of family history statements and predication constituents, further work is needed to improve extraction of certainty and temporal modifications.

  12. Automated Extraction of Family History Information from Clinical Notes

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    Bill, Robert; Pakhomov, Serguei; Chen, Elizabeth S.; Winden, Tamara J.; Carter, Elizabeth W.; Melton, Genevieve B.

    2014-01-01

    Despite increased functionality for obtaining family history in a structured format within electronic health record systems, clinical notes often still contain this information. We developed and evaluated an Unstructured Information Management Application (UIMA)-based natural language processing (NLP) module for automated extraction of family history information with functionality for identifying statements, observations (e.g., disease or procedure), relative or side of family with attributes (i.e., vital status, age of diagnosis, certainty, and negation), and predication (“indicator phrases”), the latter of which was used to establish relationships between observations and family member. The family history NLP system demonstrated F-scores of 66.9, 92.4, 82.9, 57.3, 97.7, and 61.9 for detection of family history statements, family member identification, observation identification, negation identification, vital status, and overall extraction of the predications between family members and observations, respectively. While the system performed well for detection of family history statements and predication constituents, further work is needed to improve extraction of certainty and temporal modifications. PMID:25954443

  13. Multivalent Peptidomimetic Conjugates as Inhibitors of Androgen Receptor Function in Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer

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    2017-10-01

    STATEMENT: Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author(s) and...S) 12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Androgens are ...hormones that play a critical role in stimulating prostate cancer growth. Androgens activate a protein called the androgen receptor ( AR ), which

  14. Multivalent Peptidomimetic Conjugates as Inhibitors of Androgen Receptor Function in Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer

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    2016-10-01

    STATEMENT: Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author(s) and...AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Androgens are hormones that play a critical...role in stimulating prostate cancer growth. Androgens activate a protein called the androgen receptor ( AR ), which regulates genes involved in cell

  15. Meaningful lives: Supporting young people with psychosis in education, training and employment: an international consensus statement.

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    2010-11-01

    Unemployment is the major disability faced by people with psychotic illness. Unemployment rates of 75–95% are found among those with schizophrenia. Unemployment is associated with poorer social and economic inclusion, greater symptomatology, decreased autonomy and generally poorer life functioning. Unemployment also makes up over half of the total costs associated with psychotic illness. A meeting was convened in London in June 2008. Invitees to this meeting included people from the USA, Canada and the UK interested in vocational intervention in early psychosis from either a research, clinical, economic or policy point of view. From this meeting a larger group–the International First Episode Vocational Recovery (iFEVR) group–has developed an international consensus statement about vocational recovery in first episode psychosis. The document is a basic statement of the rights of young people with psychosis to pursue employment, education and training; the evidence which exists to help them do this; and ways in which individuals, organizations and governments can assist the attainment of these ends. It is hoped that the Meaningful Lives consensus statement will increase the focus on the area of functional recovery and lift it to be seen in parallel with symptomatic recovery in the approach to treating early psychosis.

  16. Some Theoretical Aspects of Nonzero Sum Differential Games and Applications to Combat Problems

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    1971-06-01

    the Equilibrium Solution . 7 Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Partial Differential Equations ............. .............. 9 Influence Function Differential...Linearly .......... ............ 18 Problem Statement .......... ............ 18 Formulation of LJB Equations, Influence Function Equations and the TPBVP...19 Control Lawe . . .. ...... ........... 21 Conditions for Influence Function Continuity along Singular Surfaces

  17. 9 CFR 381.118 - Ingredients statement.

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    2014-01-01

    ... exceptions of onions, garlic and celery, whose primary function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional... fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural... section whose function is flavoring, either in whole or in part, must be designated by its common or usual...

  18. 77 FR 25678 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Agricultural Statistics Services' (NASS) primary functions is to prepare and issue current state and national..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples... performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b...

  19. 9 CFR 381.118 - Ingredients statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... exceptions of onions, garlic and celery, whose primary function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional... fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural... section whose function is flavoring, either in whole or in part, must be designated by its common or usual...

  20. 9 CFR 381.118 - Ingredients statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... exceptions of onions, garlic and celery, whose primary function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional... fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural... section whose function is flavoring, either in whole or in part, must be designated by its common or usual...

  1. 9 CFR 381.118 - Ingredients statement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... and celery, whose primary function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional and from which no... fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural... section whose function is flavoring, either in whole or in part, must be designated by its common or usual...

  2. 76 FR 55345 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-09-07

    ... primary functions of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) are to prepare and issue current..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples... the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have...

  3. Multibeam Phased Array Antennas

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    Popovic, Zoya; Romisch, Stefania; Rondineau, Sebastien

    2004-01-01

    In this study, a new architecture for Ka-band multi-beam arrays was developed and demonstrated experimentally. The goal of the investigation was to demonstrate a new architecture that has the potential of reducing the cost as compared to standard expensive phased array technology. The goals of this specific part of the project, as stated in the yearly statement of work in the original proposal are: 1. Investigate bounds on performance of multi-beam lens arrays in terms of beamwidths, volume (size), isolation between beams, number of simultaneous beams, etc. 2. Design a small-scale array to demonstrate the principle. The array will be designed for operation around 3OGHz (Ka-band), with two 10-degree beamwidth beams. 3. Investigate most appropriate way to accomplish fine-tuning of the beam pointing within 5 degrees around the main beam pointing angle.

  4. Influence of ECG measurement accuracy on ECG diagnostic statements.

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    Zywietz, C; Celikag, D; Joseph, G

    1996-01-01

    Computer analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs) provides a large amount of ECG measurement data, which may be used for diagnostic classification and storage in ECG databases. Until now, neither error limits for ECG measurements have been specified nor has their influence on diagnostic statements been systematically investigated. An analytical method is presented to estimate the influence of measurement errors on the accuracy of diagnostic ECG statements. Systematic (offset) errors will usually result in an increase of false positive or false negative statements since they cause a shift of the working point on the receiver operating characteristics curve. Measurement error dispersion broadens the distribution function of discriminative measurement parameters and, therefore, usually increases the overlap between discriminative parameters. This results in a flattening of the receiver operating characteristics curve and an increase of false positive and false negative classifications. The method developed has been applied to ECG conduction defect diagnoses by using the proposed International Electrotechnical Commission's interval measurement tolerance limits. These limits appear too large because more than 30% of false positive atrial conduction defect statements and 10-18% of false intraventricular conduction defect statements could be expected due to tolerated measurement errors. To assure long-term usability of ECG measurement databases, it is recommended that systems provide its error tolerance limits obtained on a defined test set.

  5. Knowledge supports memory retrieval through familiarity, not recollection.

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    Wang, Wei-Chun; Brashier, Nadia M; Wing, Erik A; Marsh, Elizabeth J; Cabeza, Roberto

    2018-05-01

    Semantic memory, or general knowledge of the world, guides learning and supports the formation and retrieval of new episodic memories. Behavioral evidence suggests that this knowledge effect is supported by recollection-a more controlled form of memory retrieval generally accompanied by contextual details-to a greater degree than familiarity-a more automatic form of memory retrieval generally absent of contextual details. In the current study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the role that regions associated with recollection and familiarity play in retrieving recent instances of known (e.g., The Summer Olympic Games are held four years apart) and unknown (e.g., A flaky deposit found in port bottles is beeswing) statements. Our results revealed a surprising pattern: Episodic retrieval of known statements recruited regions associated with familiarity, but not recollection. Instead, retrieval of unknown statements recruited regions associated with recollection. These data, in combination with quicker reaction times for the retrieval of known than unknown statements, suggest that known statements can be successfully retrieved on the basis of familiarity, whereas unknown statements were retrieved on the basis of recollection. Our results provide insight into how knowledge influences episodic retrieval and demonstrate the role of neuroimaging in providing insights into cognitive processes in the absence of explicit behavioral responses. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  6. Pursuing cost-effectiveness in mental health service delivery for youth with complex needs.

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    Grimes, Katherine E; Schulz, Margaret F; Cohen, Steven A; Mullin, Brian O; Lehar, Sophie E; Tien, Shelly

    2011-06-01

    Mental health advocates seek to expand children's services, noting widespread failure to meet the needs of public sector youth suffering from serious emotional disturbance (SED). However, state and national budgets face deepening cuts, with rising health care costs taking the blame. As the gap between needs and finances widens, identification of cost-effective treatments that will benefit children with SED and their families is of increasing importance. Community-based interventions for this population, such as the wraparound approach and systems-of-care, are being disseminated but literature is scant regarding effects on expense. The Mental Health Services Program for Youth (MHSPY) model is aligned philosophically with wraparound and systems-of-care but unique in blending public agency dollars to deliver integrated medical, mental health and social services. MHSPY's linked clinical and expense data is useful to study community-based treatment cost-effectiveness. To examine the cost-effectiveness of an intensively integrated, family and community-based clinical intervention for youth with mental health needs in comparison to "usual care.'' Study and reference populations were matched on age, gender, community, psychiatric diagnosis, morbidity and insurance type. Claims analyses included patterns of service utilization and medical expense for both groups. Using propensity score matching, results for study youth are compared with results for the population receiving "usual care.'' Clinical functioning was measured for the intervention group at baseline and 12 months. The intervention group used lower intensity services and had substantially lower claims expense (e.g. 32% lower for emergency room, 74% lower for inpatient psychiatry) than their matched counterparts in the "usual care'' group. Intervention youth were consistently maintained in least restrictive settings, with over 88% of days spent at home and showed improved clinical functioning on standard measures. The intensive MHSPY model of service delivery offers potential as a cost-effective intervention for complex youth. Its integrated approach, recognizing needs across multiple life domains, appears to enhance engagement and the effectiveness of mental health treatment, resulting in statistically significant clinical improvements. Functional measures are not collected in "usual care,'' limiting comparisons. However, claims expense for intervention youth was substantially lower than claims expense for Medicaid comparison youth, suggesting clinical needs for intervention youth post-enrollment were lower than for those receiving "usual care.'' The MHSPY model, which intentionally engages families in "clustered'' traditional and non-traditional services, represents a replicable strategy for enhancing the impact of clinical interventions, thereby reducing medical expense. Blending categorical state agency dollars and insurance funds creates flexibility to support community-based care, including individualized services for high-risk youth. Resulting expenses total no more, and are often less, than "treatment as usual'' but yield greater clinical benefits. Further research is needed regarding which intervention elements contribute the most towards improved clinical functioning, as well as which patients are most likely to benefit. A randomized trial of MHSPY vs. "usual care,'' including examination of the sustainability of effects post-disenrollment, would provide a chance to further test this innovative model.

  7. The Interplay of Psychology and Mathematics Education: From the Attraction of Psychology to the Discovery of the Social

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    Francois, Karen; Coessens, Kathleen; Van Bendegem, Jean Paul

    2012-01-01

    It is a rather safe statement to claim that the social dimensions of the scientific process are accepted in a fair share of studies in the philosophy of science. It is a somewhat safe statement to claim that the social dimensions are now seen as an essential element in the understanding of what human cognition is and how it functions. But it would…

  8. 78 FR 14311 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2013-03-05

    ... Federal Assistance Management (RJ). Specifically, this notice: (1) Moves the grant officer and loan officer function from the Office of the Associate Administrator (RJ) to the Division of Grants Management Operations (RJ3); and (2) moves the electronic grant management system function from the Division of Grants...

  9. 76 FR 52303 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Service (NASS) primary function is to prepare and issue official State and national estimates of crop and..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples... the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have...

  10. 77 FR 24455 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2012-04-24

    ...: The primary function of the Economic Research Service (ERS) is to provide economic and social science..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples... performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b...

  11. Control of Anion in Corporation in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ternary Antimonide Superlattices for Very Long Wavelength Infrared Detection (Postprint)

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    2015-10-01

    ASSIGNED DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT. //Signature// //Signature// GAIL J. BROWN DIANA M. CARLIN, Chief Nanoelectronic ...Materials Branch Nanoelectronic Materials Branch Functional Materials Division Functional Materials Division //Signature// KAREN

  12. An overview of software design languages. [for Galileo spacecraft Command and Data Subsystems

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    Callender, E. D.

    1980-01-01

    The nature and use of design languages and associated processors that are used in software development are reviewed with reference to development work on the Galileo spacecraft project, a Jupiter orbiter scheduled for launch in 1984. The major design steps are identified (functional design, architectural design, detailed design, coding, and testing), and the purpose, functions and the range of applications of design languages are examined. Then the general character of any design language is analyzed in terms of syntax and semantics. Finally, the differences and similarities between design languages are illustrated by examining two specific design languages: Software Design and Documentation language and Problem Statement Language/Problem Statement Analyzer.

  13. Project Employability: Employability Curriculum.

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    Burrell, Lewis P.; Talarico, Robert L.

    The fourth of six products from Project Employability (Ohio) outlines instructional goals and objectives designed to improve employment skills of high functioning trainable and low functioning educable mentally retarded high school students. The employability philosophy incorporates statements regarding career exploration, practice as a means to…

  14. 76 FR 62420 - Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

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    2011-10-07

    ... leadership, consultation, training, and management services for HRSA's enterprise computing environment; (2... responsibility with improved security management capabilities and improved alignment of current security... responsible for the organization, management, and administrative functions necessary to carry out the...

  15. Spirometry in primary care

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    Coates, Allan L; Graham, Brian L; McFadden, Robin G; McParland, Colm; Moosa, Dilshad; Provencher, Steeve; Road, Jeremy

    2013-01-01

    Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) clinical guidelines for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) specify that spirometry should be used to diagnose these diseases. Given the burden of asthma and COPD, most people with these diseases will be diagnosed in the primary care setting. The present CTS position statement was developed to provide guidance on key factors affecting the quality of spirometry testing in the primary care setting. The present statement may also be used to inform and guide the accreditation process for spirometry in each province. Although many of the principles discussed are equally applicable to pulmonary function laboratories and interpretation of tests by respirologists, they are held to a higher standard and are outside the scope of the present statement. PMID:23457669

  16. Outlier Resistant Predictive Source Encoding for a Gaussian Stationary Nominal Source.

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    1987-09-18

    breakdown point and influence function . The proposed sequence of predictive encoders attains strictly positive breakdown point and uniformly bounded... influence function , at the expense of increased mean difference-squared distortion and differential entropy, at the Gaussian nominal source.

  17. An Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of Confidence Ratings in Identifying Functional Behavioral Assessment Hypothesis Statements

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    Borgmeier, Chris; Horner, Robert H.

    2006-01-01

    Faced with limited resources, schools require tools that increase the accuracy and efficiency of functional behavioral assessment. Yarbrough and Carr (2000) provided evidence that informant confidence ratings of the likelihood of problem behavior in specific situations offered a promising tool for predicting the accuracy of function-based…

  18. The Relation Between Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior in the Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability.

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    Tassé, Marc J; Luckasson, Ruth; Schalock, Robert L

    2016-12-01

    Intellectual disability originates during the developmental period and is characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. In this article, we present a brief history of the diagnostic criteria of intellectual disability for both the DSM-5 and AAIDD. The article also (a) provides an update of the understanding of adaptive behavior, (b) dispels two thinking errors regarding mistaken temporal or causal link between intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, (c) explains that there is a strong correlational, but no causative, relation between intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, and (d) asserts that once a question of determining intellectual disability is raised, both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior are assessed and considered jointly and weighed equally in the diagnosis of intellectual disability. We discuss the problems created by an inaccurate statement that appears in the DSM-5 regarding a causal link between deficits in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior and propose an immediate revision to remove this erroneous and confounding statement.

  19. The American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists' consensus statement on rehabilitation following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.

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    Thigpen, Charles A; Shaffer, Michael A; Gaunt, Bryce W; Leggin, Brian G; Williams, Gerald R; Wilcox, Reg B

    2016-04-01

    This is a consensus statement on rehabilitation developed by the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists. The purpose of this statement is to aid clinical decision making during the rehabilitation of patients after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. The overarching philosophy of rehabilitation is centered on the principle of the gradual application of controlled stresses to the healing rotator cuff repair with consideration of rotator cuff tear size, tissue quality, and patient variables. This statement describes a rehabilitation framework that includes a 2-week period of strict immobilization and a staged introduction of protected, passive range of motion during weeks 2-6 postoperatively, followed by restoration of active range of motion, and then progressive strengthening beginning at postoperative week 12. When appropriate, rehabilitation continues with a functional progression for return to athletic or demanding work activities. This document represents the first consensus rehabilitation statement developed by a multidisciplinary society of international rehabilitation professionals specifically for the postoperative care of patients after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Copyright © 2016 Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  20. Monitoring of Beachsaver Reef with Filter Blanket and Double-T Sill at Cape May Point, New Jersey, Section 227 Demonstration Site; First Year Monitoring - 2002-2003

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    2005-07-01

    evaluate the functional, structural, and economic performance of the patented Beachsaver Reef prefabricated concrete submerged breakwater and the less...expensive prefabricated concrete structure called a Double-T sill. This demonstration project was developed through a cooperative effort of the U.S...patented Beachsaver Reef prefabricated concrete submerged breakwater and a less expensive, prefabricated concrete structure called a Double-T sill. Data

  1. An introduction to high speed aircraft noise prediction

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    Wilson, Mark R.

    1992-01-01

    The Aircraft Noise Prediction Program's High Speed Research prediction system (ANOPP-HSR) is introduced. This mini-manual is an introduction which gives a brief overview of the ANOPP system and the components of the HSR prediction method. ANOPP information resources are given. Twelve of the most common ANOPP-HSR control statements are described. Each control statement's purpose and format are stated and relevant examples are provided. More detailed examples of the use of the control statements are presented in the manual along with ten ANOPP-HSR templates. The purpose of the templates is to provide the user with working ANOPP-HSR programs which can be modified to serve particular prediction requirements. Also included in this manual is a brief discussion of common errors and how to solve these problems. The appendices include the following useful information: a summary of all ANOPP-HSR functional research modules, a data unit directory, a discussion of one of the more complex control statements, and input data unit and table examples.

  2. Rethinking the Discovery Function of Proof within the Context of Proofs and Refutations

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    Komatsu, Kotaro; Tsujiyama, Yosuke; Sakamaki, Aruta

    2014-01-01

    Proof and proving are important components of school mathematics and have multiple functions in mathematical practice. Among these functions of proof, this paper focuses on the discovery function that refers to invention of a new statement or conjecture by reflecting on or utilizing a constructed proof. Based on two cases in which eighth and ninth…

  3. Does a bishop pray when he prays? And does his brain distinguish between different religions?

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    Silveira, Sarita; Bao, Yan; Wang, Lingyan; Pöppel, Ernst; Avram, Mihai; Simmank, Fabian; Zaytseva, Yuliya; Blautzik, Janusch

    2015-12-01

    Does a religion shape belief-related decisions and influence neural processing? We investigated an eminent bishop of the Catholic Church in Germany by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess neural processing while he was responding to short sentences of the Christian Bible, the Islamic Quran, and the Daodejing ascribed to Laozi in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, continuous praying was further compared to the resting state activity. In contrast to explicit statements of agreeing or not agreeing to different statements from the Bible and the Quran, we found in Experiment 1 no difference in neural activation when the bishop was reading these statements from the two religions. However, compared to reading statements from the Bible, reading statements from the Daodejing resulted in significantly higher activation in the left inferior and middle frontal cortices and the left middle temporal gyrus, although he equally agreed to both statements explicitly. In Experiment 2, no difference during continuous praying and the resting state activity was observed. Our results confirm the difference between explicit and implicit processing, and they suggest that a highly religious person may pray always-or never. On a more general level this observation suggests that ritualized activities might be subliminally represented in resting state activities. © 2015 The Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

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  8. Numerical Solutions for Laminar Boundary Layer Behind Blast Waves.

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    1980-05-01

    DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of thle Report) Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 17 . DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the abstract entered in Block 20...Reference I ............. 41 5. Boundary-Layer Functions for Case A, B, C, and D ......... 98 3 NOMENCLATURE A constant, Eqs. (10) and ( 17 ) B...the constant A was chosen as follows to simplify the coefficients of f and g1 A = 2mF CZ(a+i) OPO/pCO ( The ( 17 ) The explicit dependence of the flow

  9. The "Acute coronary syndromes: consensus recommendations for translating knowledge into action" position statement is based on a false premise.

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    Forge, Brett H

    2010-06-21

    Recent National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) guidelines for management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) recommend increasing the rates of early invasive management of ACS and providing equal access for all Australians to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) facilities. For patients with ACS managed in regional hospitals without PCI facilities, review of the evidence does not show unequivocal benefit of early routine PCI over selective PCI for patients with non-ST-segment-elevation ACS or ST-elevation myocardial infarction. The current pattern of transfer based on the NHFA guidelines is expensive and disruptive of patient care, as well as undermining regional health care services. Further increase in transfer rates and increases in PCI facilities would divert resources away from supporting the regional infrastructure needed to provide evidence-based therapies, without any evidence that lives would be saved.

  10. Management evaluation about introduction of electric medical record in the national hospital organization.

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    Nakagawa, Yoshiaki; Tomita, Naoko; Irisa, Kaoru; Yoshihara, Hiroyuki; Nakagawa, Yoshinobu

    2013-01-01

    Introduction of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) into a hospital was started from 1999 in Japan. Then, most of all EMR company said that EMR improved efficacy of the management of the hospital. National Hospital Organization (NHO) has been promoting the project and introduced EMR since 2004. NHO has 143 hospitals, 51 hospitals offer acute-phase medical care services, the other 92 hospitals offer medical services mainly for chronic patients. We conducted three kinds of investigations, questionnaire survey, checking the homepage information of the hospitals and analyzing the financial statements of each NHO hospital. In this financial analysis, we applied new indicators which have been developed based on personnel costs. In 2011, there are 44 hospitals which have introduced EMR. In our result, the hospital with EMR performed more investment of equipment/capital than personnel expenses. So, there is no advantage of EMR on the financial efficacy.

  11. Precise and Scalable Static Program Analysis of NASA Flight Software

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    Brat, G.; Venet, A.

    2005-01-01

    Recent NASA mission failures (e.g., Mars Polar Lander and Mars Orbiter) illustrate the importance of having an efficient verification and validation process for such systems. One software error, as simple as it may be, can cause the loss of an expensive mission, or lead to budget overruns and crunched schedules. Unfortunately, traditional verification methods cannot guarantee the absence of errors in software systems. Therefore, we have developed the CGS static program analysis tool, which can exhaustively analyze large C programs. CGS analyzes the source code and identifies statements in which arrays are accessed out of bounds, or, pointers are used outside the memory region they should address. This paper gives a high-level description of CGS and its theoretical foundations. It also reports on the use of CGS on real NASA software systems used in Mars missions (from Mars PathFinder to Mars Exploration Rover) and on the International Space Station.

  12. Queer(ed) risks: life insurance, HIV/AIDS, and the "gay question".

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    Cobb, Neil

    2010-01-01

    In 2004 the Association of British Insurers (ABI) issued its second Statement of Best Practice on HIV and Insurance. This prohibited use of the "gay question" (employed by some underwriters in application forms for life insurance to identify heightened risk of infection with HIV), in response to growing criticism that the practice was actuarially unreliable, unfair to gay men, and unnecessary, given the availability of alternative "behaviour-based" risk criteria. While the overhaul of this controversial practice is clearly a victory for gay (male) identity politics, this paper argues that the interests of gay men seem to have dominated at the expense of a more far-reaching critique of the industry's evaluation of infection risk. It contends that a more radical (or "queerer") challenge is needed which can better understand and address the injustices created by criteria for appraising risk of infection that still remain in place.

  13. Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part I - Director's report, including triangulation and spirit leveling

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    Walcott, Charles D.

    1897-01-01

    The most important change in the field work was rendered necessary by the legislation providing for the establishment of levels and permanent monuments and bench marks. The clauses of the act embodying this legislation, and a full statement of the reasons for it, were given in the Introduction to Part I of the Seventeenth Annual Report, pages 7 to 11, and the subject is again referred to further on in this report. The actual cost of the leveling and monuments for the year was somewhat greater than it will be another year, as the expense of training men and initiating the new methods- of survey will not have to be met hereafter. During the year 10,840 miles of levels were run and 1,820 bench marks were established.

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  17. Vascular endothelium summary statement II: Cardiovascular disease prevention and control.

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    Mensah, George A; Ryan, Una S; Hooper, W Craig; Engelgau, Michael M; Callow, Allan D; Kapuku, Gaston K; Mantovani, Alberto

    2007-05-01

    The prevention and control of cardiovascular disease (CVD), principally ischemic heart disease and stroke, are a major clinical and public health challenge. Worldwide, CVD accounts for substantial morbidity and mortality. The major modifiable CVD risk factors are known and all of them cause endothelial activation and dysfunction. Preventing and controlling the established risk factors are associated with preserved endothelial function and reduced risk of CVD. Research advances that improve our understanding of strategies to preserve endothelial function or make the endothelial cells resilient to environmental insults may help improve our preventive interventions. This summary statement addresses the current state of the science with respect to endothelial dysfunction and CVD pathogenesis, diagnostic evaluation, and suggested strategies for public health practice and research.

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  19. Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma

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    understanding the problem, developing solutions, and evalu- ating pros and cons of the solutions. The paramount considerations are getting enough facts and...parts or labor operations. Functions are defined for every element of the product or process that con - sumes resources. The functions are typically...shoot bullets, detect movement, and so forth). A work function establishes quantitative statements. Functional definitions con - taining a verb and a

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  7. Communicating uncertainty: managing the inherent probabilistic character of hazard estimates

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    Albarello, Dario

    2013-04-01

    Science is much more fixing the limits of our knowledge about possible occurrences than the identification of any "truth". This is particularly true when scientific statements concern prediction of natural phenomena largely exceeding the laboratory scale as in the case of seismogenesis. In these cases, many scenarios about future occurrences result possible (plausible) and the contribution of scientific knowledge (based on the available knowledge about underlying processes or the phenomenological studies) mainly consists in attributing to each scenario a different level of likelihood (probability). In other terms, scientific predictions in the field of geosciences (hazard assessment) are inherently probabilistic. However, despite of this, many scientist (seismologists, etc.) in communicating their position in public debates tend to stress the " truth" of their statements against the fancy character of pseudo-scientific assertions: stronger is the opposition of science and pseudo-science, more hidden becomes the probabilistic character of scientific statements. The problem arises when this kind of "probabilistic" knowledge becomes the basis of any political action (e.g., to impose expensive form of risk reducing activities): in these cases the lack of any definitive "truth" requires a direct assumption of responsibility by the relevant decider (being the single citizen or the legitimate expression of a larger community) to choose among several possibilities (however characterized by different levels of likelihood). In many cases, this can be uncomfortable and strong is the attitude to delegate to the scientific counterpart the responsibility of these decisions. This "transfer" from the genuine political field to an improper scientific context is also facilitated by the lack of a diffuse culture of "probability" outside the scientific community (and in many cases inside also). This is partially the effect of the generalized adoption (by media and scientific communicators) of a view of probability (the "frequentist" view) that is useful in scientific practice but is very far from the common use of uncertain reasoning (that is nearer to the "epistemic" view). Considering probability a sort of physical measure inherent in the process under examination (like an acceleration value) instead of a degree of belief (rationally inferred) about any statement concerning future occurrences tends to hide the importance of a shared responsibility about relevant choices that involves scientists and citizens in the same extent.

  8. Functional neuroimaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty.

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    Harris, Sam; Sheth, Sameer A; Cohen, Mark S

    2008-02-01

    The difference between believing and disbelieving a proposition is one of the most potent regulators of human behavior and emotion. When one accepts a statement as true, it becomes the basis for further thought and action; rejected as false, it remains a string of words. The purpose of this study was to differentiate belief, disbelief, and uncertainty at the level of the brain. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brains of 14 adults while they judged written statements to be "true" (belief), "false" (disbelief), or "undecidable" (uncertainty). To characterize belief, disbelief, and uncertainty in a content-independent manner, we included statements from a wide range of categories: autobiographical, mathematical, geographical, religious, ethical, semantic, and factual. The states of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty differentially activated distinct regions of the prefrontal and parietal cortices, as well as the basal ganglia. Belief and disbelief differ from uncertainty in that both provide information that can subsequently inform behavior and emotion. The mechanism underlying this difference appears to involve the anterior cingulate cortex and the caudate. Although many areas of higher cognition are likely involved in assessing the truth-value of linguistic propositions, the final acceptance of a statement as "true" or its rejection as "false" appears to rely on more primitive, hedonic processing in the medial prefrontal cortex and the anterior insula. Truth may be beauty, and beauty truth, in more than a metaphorical sense, and false propositions may actually disgust us.

  9. Lyin’ Eyes: Ocular-motor Measures of Reading Reveal Deception

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    Cook, Anne E.; Hacker, Douglas J.; Webb, Andrea K.; Osher, Dahvyn; Kristjansson, Sean; Woltz, Dan J.; Kircher, John C.

    2013-01-01

    Our goal was to evaluate an alternative to current methods for detecting deception in security screening contexts. We evaluated a new cognitive-based test of deception that measured participants’ ocular-motor responses (pupil responses and reading behaviors) while they read and responded to statements on a computerized questionnaire. In Experiment 1, participants from a university community were randomly assigned to either a “guilty” group that committed one of two mock crimes or an “innocent” group that only learned about the crime. Participants then reported for testing, where they completed the computer-administered questionnaire that addressed their possible involvement in the crimes. Experiment 2 also manipulated participants’ incentive to pass the test and difficulty of statements on the test. In both experiments, guilty participants had increased pupil responses to statements answered deceptively; however, they spent less time fixating on, reading, and re-reading those statements than statements answered truthfully. These ocular-motor measures were optimally weighted in a discrimination function that correctly classified 85% of participants as either guilty or innocent. Findings from Experiment 2 indicated that group discrimination was improved with greater incentives to pass the test and the use of statements with simple syntax. The present findings suggest that two cognitive processes are involved in deception -- vigilance and strategy -- and that these processes are reflected in different ocular-motor measures. The ocular-motor test reported here represents a new approach to detecting deception that may fill an important need in security screening contexts. PMID:22545928

  10. The perception of intonation questions and statements in Cantonese.

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    Ma, Joan K-Y; Ciocca, Valter; Whitehill, Tara L

    2011-02-01

    In tone languages there are potential conflicts in the perception of lexical tone and intonation, as both depend mainly on the differences in fundamental frequency (F0) patterns. The present study investigated the acoustic cues associated with the perception of sentences as questions or statements in Cantonese, as a function of the lexical tone in sentence final position. Cantonese listeners performed intonation identification tasks involving complete sentences, isolated final syllables, and sentences without the final syllable (carriers). Sensitivity (d' scores) were similar for complete sentences and final syllables but were significantly lower for carriers. Sensitivity was also affected by tone identity. These findings show that the perception of questions and statements relies primarily on the F0 characteristics of the final syllables (local F0 cues). A measure of response bias (c) provided evidence for a general bias toward the perception of statements. Logistic regression analyses showed that utterances were accurately classified as questions or statements by using average F0 and F0 interval. Average F0 of carriers (global F0 cue) was also found to be a reliable secondary cue. These findings suggest that the use of F0 cues for the perception of intonation question in tonal languages is likely to be language-specific.

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  15. Detection, evaluation and treatment of diabetes mellitus in chronic pancreatitis: recommendations from PancreasFest 2012.

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    Rickels, Michael R; Bellin, Melena; Toledo, Frederico G S; Robertson, R Paul; Andersen, Dana K; Chari, Suresh T; Brand, Randall; Frulloni, Luca; Anderson, Michelle A; Whitcomb, David C

    2013-01-01

    Diabetes and glucose intolerance are common complications of chronic pancreatitis, yet clinical guidance on their detection, classification, and management is lacking. A working group reviewed the medical problems, diagnostic methods, and treatment options for chronic pancreatitis-associated diabetes for a consensus meeting at PancreasFest 2012. Guidance Statement 1.1: Diabetes mellitus is common in chronic pancreatitis. While any patient with chronic pancreatitis should be monitored for development of diabetes, those with long-standing duration of disease, prior partial pancreatectomy, and early onset of calcific disease may be at higher risk. Those patients developing diabetes mellitus are likely to have co-existing pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Guidance Statement 1.2: Diabetes occurring secondary to chronic pancreatitis should be recognized as pancreatogenic diabetes (type 3c diabetes). Guidance Statement 2.1: The initial evaluation should include fasting glucose and HbA1c. These tests should be repeated annually. Impairment in either fasting glucose or HbA1c requires further evaluation. Guidance Statement 2.2: Impairment in either fasting glucose or HbA1c should be further evaluated by a standard 75 g oral glucose tolerance test. Guidance Statement 2.3: An absent pancreatic polypeptide response to mixed-nutrient ingestion is a specific indicator of type 3c diabetes. Guidance Statement 2.4: Assessment of pancreatic endocrine reserve, and importantly that of functional beta-cell mass, should be performed as part of the evaluation and follow-up for total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT). Guidance Statement 3: Patients with pancreatic diabetes shall be treated with specifically tailored medical nutrition and pharmacologic therapies. Physicians should evaluate and treat glucose intolerance in patients with pancreatitis. Copyright © 2013 IAP and EPC. All rights reserved.

  16. Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus in Chronic Pancreatitis: Recommendations from PancreasFest 2012

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    Rickels, Michael R.; Bellin, Melena; Toledo, Frederico G.S.; Robertson, R. Paul; Andersen, Dana K.; Chari, Suresh T.; Brand, Randall; Frulloni, Luca; Anderson, Michelle A.; Whitcomb, David C.

    2013-01-01

    Description Diabetes and glucose intolerance are common complications of chronic pancreatitis, yet clinical guidance on their detection, classification, and management is lacking. Methods A working group reviewed the medical problems, diagnostic methods, and treatment options for chronic pancreatitis-associated diabetes for a consensus meeting at PancreasFest 2012. Results Guidance Statement 1.1 Diabetes mellitus is common in chronic pancreatitis. While any patient with chronic pancreatitis should be monitored for development of diabetes, those with long-standing duration of disease, prior partial pancreatectomy, and early onset of calcific disease may be at higher risk. Those patients developing diabetes mellitus are likely to have co-existing pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Guidance Statement 1.2 Diabetes occurring secondary to chronic pancreatitis should be recognized as pancreatogenic diabetes (type 3c diabetes). Guidance Statement 2.1 The initial evaluation should include fasting glucose and HbA1c. These tests should be repeated annually. Impairment in either fasting glucose or HbA1c requires further evaluation. Guidance Statement 2.2 Impairment in either fasting glucose or HbA1c should be further evaluated by a standard 75 gram oral glucose tolerance test. Guidance Statement 2.3 An absent pancreatic polypeptide response to mixed-nutrient ingestion is a specific indicator of type 3c diabetes. Guidance Statement 2.4 Assessment of pancreatic endocrine reserve, and importantly that of functional beta-cell mass, should be performed as part of the evaluation and follow-up for total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT). Guidance Statement 3 Patients with pancreatic diabetes shall be treated with specifically tailored medical nutrition and pharmacologic therapies. Conclusions Physicians should evaluate and treat glucose intolerance in patients with pancreatitis. PMID:23890130

  17. Phosphorylation of Synaptojanin Differentially Regulates Endocytosis of Functionally Distinct Synaptic Vesicle Pools

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    Geng, Junhua; Wang, Liping; Lee, Joo Yeun; Chen, Chun-Kan

    2016-01-01

    The rapid replenishment of synaptic vesicles through endocytosis is crucial for sustaining synaptic transmission during intense neuronal activity. Synaptojanin (Synj), a phosphoinositide phosphatase, is known to play an important role in vesicle recycling by promoting the uncoating of clathrin following synaptic vesicle uptake. Synj has been shown to be a substrate of the minibrain (Mnb) kinase, a fly homolog of the dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A); however, the functional impacts of Synj phosphorylation by Mnb are not well understood. Here we identify that Mnb phosphorylates Synj at S1029 in Drosophila. We find that phosphorylation of Synj at S1029 enhances Synj phosphatase activity, alters interaction between Synj and endophilin, and promotes efficient endocytosis of the active cycling vesicle pool (also referred to as exo-endo cycling pool) at the expense of reserve pool vesicle endocytosis. Dephosphorylated Synj, on the other hand, is deficient in the endocytosis of the active recycling pool vesicles but maintains reserve pool vesicle endocytosis to restore total vesicle pool size and sustain synaptic transmission. Together, our findings reveal a novel role for Synj in modulating reserve pool vesicle endocytosis and further indicate that dynamic phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of Synj differentially maintain endocytosis of distinct functional synaptic vesicle pools. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Synaptic vesicle endocytosis sustains communication between neurons during a wide range of neuronal activities by recycling used vesicle membrane and protein components. Here we identify that Synaptojanin, a protein with a known role in synaptic vesicle endocytosis, is phosphorylated at S1029 in vivo by the Minibrain kinase. We further demonstrate that the phosphorylation status of Synaptojanin at S1029 differentially regulates its participation in the recycling of distinct synaptic vesicle pools. Our results reveal a new role for Synaptojanin in maintaining synaptic vesicle pool size and in reserve vesicle endocytosis. As Synaptojanin and Minibrain perturbations are associated with various neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's, autism, and Down syndrome, understanding mechanisms modulating Synaptojanin function provides valuable insights into processes affecting neuronal communication. PMID:27559170

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    ... RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Egg Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1250.349 Collecting... by producers and who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler under § 1250.309, (2) A producer who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler...

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    ... RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Egg Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1250.349 Collecting... by producers and who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler under § 1250.309, (2) A producer who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler...

  4. 7 CFR 1250.349 - Collecting handlers and collection.

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    ... RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Egg Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1250.349 Collecting... by producers and who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler under § 1250.309, (2) A producer who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler...

  5. 7 CFR 1250.349 - Collecting handlers and collection.

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    2012-01-01

    ... RESEARCH AND PROMOTION Egg Research and Promotion Order Expenses and Assessments § 1250.349 Collecting... by producers and who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler under § 1250.309, (2) A producer who grades, cartons, breaks, or otherwise performs a function of a handler...

  6. On the possibility of control restoration in some inverse problems of heat and mass transfer

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    Bilchenko, G. G.; Bilchenko, N. G.

    2016-11-01

    The hypersonic aircraft permeable surfaces effective heat protection problems are considered. The physic-chemical processes (the dissociation and the ionization) in laminar boundary layer of compressible gas are appreciated in mathematical model. The statements of direct problems of heat and mass transfer are given: according to preset given controls it is necessary to compute the boundary layer mathematical model parameters and determinate the local and total heat flows and friction forces and the power of blowing system. The A.A.Dorodnicyn's generalized integral relations method has been used as calculation basis. The optimal control - the blowing into boundary layer (for continuous functions) was constructed as the solution of direct problem in extreme statement with the use of this approach. The statement of inverse problems are given: the control laws ensuring the preset given local heat flow and local tangent friction are restored. The differences between the interpolation and the approximation statements are discussed. The possibility of unique control restoration is established and proved (in the stagnation point). The computational experiments results are presented.

  7. ERTS 1 launch and flight activation evaluation report, 23 - 26 July 1972. Launch through Orbit 35 and orbit adjust operation

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    1972-01-01

    The results of the analysis conducted on the telemetry data from the prelaunch, launch, and flight activation phases of the ERTS-1 spacecraft are presented. It is presented by sub system sections and provides for inter-relationships as they exist between the several subsystems. A brief statement of subsystem characteristics precedes flight evaluation statements. The appendix contains a total list of components flow on ERTS-1 and a complete listing of commands and telemetry functions for reference.

  8. 49 CFR 1242.78 - Employees performing clerical and accounting functions, and loss and damage claims processing...

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    ... functions, and loss and damage claims processing (accounts XX-55-76 and XX-55-78). 1242.78 Section 1242.78... Employees performing clerical and accounting functions, and loss and damage claims processing (accounts XX-55-76 and XX-55-78). If the sum of the direct freight and the direct passenger expenses is more than...

  9. [Functional (psychogenic) vertigo].

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    Diukova, G M; Zamergrad, M V; Golubev, V L; Adilova, S M; Makarov, S A

    Psychogenic (functional) vertigo is in second place by frequency after benign positional paroxysmal vertigo. It is often difficult to make the diagnosis, diagnostic program is expensive and traditional treatment often is not effective. This literature review covers current concepts on the terminology, clinical signs, pathogenesis and treatment approaches with regard to functional vertigo. Special attention is given to cerebral mechanisms of the pathogenesis including cognitive aspects.

  10. Impact of Hypertension on Cognitive Function: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

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    Iadecola, Costantino; Yaffe, Kristine; Biller, José; Bratzke, Lisa C; Faraci, Frank M; Gorelick, Philip B; Gulati, Martha; Kamel, Hooman; Knopman, David S; Launer, Lenore J; Saczynski, Jane S; Seshadri, Sudha; Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina

    2016-12-01

    Age-related dementia, most commonly caused by Alzheimer disease or cerebrovascular factors (vascular dementia), is a major public health threat. Chronic arterial hypertension is a well-established risk factor for both types of dementia, but the link between hypertension and its treatment and cognition remains poorly understood. In this scientific statement, a multidisciplinary team of experts examines the impact of hypertension on cognition to assess the state of the knowledge, to identify gaps, and to provide future directions. Authors with relevant expertise were selected to contribute to this statement in accordance with the American Heart Association conflict-of-interest management policy. Panel members were assigned topics relevant to their areas of expertise, reviewed the literature, and summarized the available data. Hypertension disrupts the structure and function of cerebral blood vessels, leads to ischemic damage of white matter regions critical for cognitive function, and may promote Alzheimer pathology. There is strong evidence of a deleterious influence of midlife hypertension on late-life cognitive function, but the cognitive impact of late-life hypertension is less clear. Observational studies demonstrated a cumulative effect of hypertension on cerebrovascular damage, but evidence from clinical trials that antihypertensive treatment improves cognition is not conclusive. After carefully reviewing the literature, the group concluded that there were insufficient data to make evidence-based recommendations. However, judicious treatment of hypertension, taking into account goals of care and individual characteristics (eg, age and comorbidities), seems justified to safeguard vascular health and, as a consequence, brain health. © 2016 American Heart Association, Inc.

  11. Western Area Power Administration combined power system financial statements September 30, 1994 and 1993 and management overview and performance measurements

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    Marwick, P.

    1994-12-31

    The attached report presents the results of the independent certified public accountant`s audit of the Department of Energy`s Western Area Power Administration`s (Western) combined financial statements as of September 30, 1994. The auditors have expressed an unqualified opinion on Western`s 1994 statements. Their reports on Western`s internal control structure and on compliance with laws and regulations are also provided. Western was established in December 1977, and has the responsibility for the Federal electric power marketing and transmission functions in 15 central and western states. Western markets power, as required by existing law, at the lowest possible rates consistent with soundmore » business principles to recover the costs of operation and capital invested in power facilities.« less

  12. Defining Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Interventions: A Policy Statement From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee.

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    Kon, Alexander A; Shepard, Eric K; Sederstrom, Nneka O; Swoboda, Sandra M; Marshall, Mary Faith; Birriel, Barbara; Rincon, Fred

    2016-09-01

    The Society of Critical Care Medicine and four other major critical care organizations have endorsed a seven-step process to resolve disagreements about potentially inappropriate treatments. The multiorganization statement (entitled: An official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units) provides examples of potentially inappropriate treatments; however, no clear definition is provided. This statement was developed to provide a clear definition of inappropriate interventions in the ICU environment. A subcommittee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee performed a systematic review of empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals as well as professional organization position statements to generate recommendations. Recommendations approved by consensus of the full Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committees and the Society of Critical Care Medicine Council were included in the statement. ICU interventions should generally be considered inappropriate when there is no reasonable expectation that the patient will improve sufficiently to survive outside the acute care setting, or when there is no reasonable expectation that the patient's neurologic function will improve sufficiently to allow the patient to perceive the benefits of treatment. This definition should not be considered exhaustive; there will be cases in which life-prolonging interventions may reasonably be considered inappropriate even when the patient would survive outside the acute care setting with sufficient cognitive ability to perceive the benefits of treatment. When patients or surrogate decision makers demand interventions that the clinician believes are potentially inappropriate, the seven-step process presented in the multiorganization statement should be followed. Clinicians should recognize the limits of prognostication when evaluating potential neurologic outcome and terminal cases. At times, it may be appropriate to provide time-limited ICU interventions to patients if doing so furthers the patient's reasonable goals of care. If the patient is experiencing pain or suffering, treatment to relieve pain and suffering is always appropriate. The Society of Critical Care Medicine supports the seven-step process presented in the multiorganization statement. This statement provides added guidance to clinicians in the ICU environment.

  13. 78 FR 62357 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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  15. 7 CFR 1150.151 - Expenses.

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    2010-01-01

    ... and Orders; Milk), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM Dairy Promotion and Research... incurred by the Board for its maintenance and functioning and to enable it to exercise its powers and...

  16. Reduced order surrogate modelling (ROSM) of high dimensional deterministic simulations

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    Mitry, Mina

    Often, computationally expensive engineering simulations can prohibit the engineering design process. As a result, designers may turn to a less computationally demanding approximate, or surrogate, model to facilitate their design process. However, owing to the the curse of dimensionality, classical surrogate models become too computationally expensive for high dimensional data. To address this limitation of classical methods, we develop linear and non-linear Reduced Order Surrogate Modelling (ROSM) techniques. Two algorithms are presented, which are based on a combination of linear/kernel principal component analysis and radial basis functions. These algorithms are applied to subsonic and transonic aerodynamic data, as well as a model for a chemical spill in a channel. The results of this thesis show that ROSM can provide a significant computational benefit over classical surrogate modelling, sometimes at the expense of a minor loss in accuracy.

  17. 76 FR 24493 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... to, laboratory information systems, quality management systems and bioinformatics; (3) ensures a safe working environment in NCIRD laboratories; and (4) collaborates effectively with other centers and offices...

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    ... situations; (5) helps to develop and encourage innovation throughout the spectrum from scientific discovery... transparency and accountability of CDC extramural research programs; (5) provides oversight of knowledge...

  20. What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care.

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    Ohnsorge, Kathrin; Gudat, Heike; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph

    2014-01-01

    Despite research efforts over recent decades to deepen our understanding of why some terminally ill patients express a wish to die (WTD), there is broad consensus that we need more detailed knowledge about the factors that might influence such a wish. The objective of this study is to explore the different possible motivations and explanations of patients who express or experience a WTD. Thirty terminally ill cancer patients, their caregivers and relatives; from a hospice, a palliative care ward in the oncology department of a general hospital, and an ambulatory palliative care service; 116 semi-structured qualitative interviews analysed using a complementary grounded theory and interpretive phenomenological analysis approach. THREE DIMENSIONS WERE FOUND TO BE CRUCIAL FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYSING WTD STATEMENTS: intentions, motivations and social interactions. This article analyses the motivations of WTD statements. Motivations can further be differentiated into (1) reasons, (2) meanings and (3) functions. Reasons are the factors that patients understand as causing them to have or accounting for having a WTD. These reasons can be ordered along the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model. Meanings describe the broader explanatory frameworks, which explain what this wish means to a patient. Meanings are larger narratives that reflect personal values and moral understandings and cannot be reduced to reasons. Functions describe the effects of the WTD on patients themselves or on others, conscious or unconscious, that might be part of the motivation for a WTD. Nine typical 'meanings' were identified in the study, including "to let death put an end to severe suffering", "to move on to another reality", and - more frequently- "to spare others from the burden of oneself". The distinction between reasons, meanings and functions allows for a more detailed understanding of the motivation for the WTD statements of cancer patients in palliative care situations. Better understanding is crucial to support patients and their relatives in end-of-life care and decision making. More research is required to investigate the types of motivations for WTD statements, also among non-cancer patients.

  1. What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care

    PubMed Central

    2014-01-01

    Background Despite research efforts over recent decades to deepen our understanding of why some terminally ill patients express a wish to die (WTD), there is broad consensus that we need more detailed knowledge about the factors that might influence such a wish. The objective of this study is to explore the different possible motivations and explanations of patients who express or experience a WTD. Methods Thirty terminally ill cancer patients, their caregivers and relatives; from a hospice, a palliative care ward in the oncology department of a general hospital, and an ambulatory palliative care service; 116 semi-structured qualitative interviews analysed using a complementary grounded theory and interpretive phenomenological analysis approach. Results Three dimensions were found to be crucial for understanding and analysing WTD statements: intentions, motivations and social interactions. This article analyses the motivations of WTD statements. Motivations can further be differentiated into (1) reasons, (2) meanings and (3) functions. Reasons are the factors that patients understand as causing them to have or accounting for having a WTD. These reasons can be ordered along the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model. Meanings describe the broader explanatory frameworks, which explain what this wish means to a patient. Meanings are larger narratives that reflect personal values and moral understandings and cannot be reduced to reasons. Functions describe the effects of the WTD on patients themselves or on others, conscious or unconscious, that might be part of the motivation for a WTD. Nine typical ‘meanings’ were identified in the study, including “to let death put an end to severe suffering”, “to move on to another reality”, and – more frequently– “to spare others from the burden of oneself”. Conclusions The distinction between reasons, meanings and functions allows for a more detailed understanding of the motivation for the WTD statements of cancer patients in palliative care situations. Better understanding is crucial to support patients and their relatives in end-of-life care and decision making. More research is required to investigate the types of motivations for WTD statements, also among non-cancer patients. PMID:25161387

  2. Functional Specialization of the Cerebral Hemispheres in Infants and Children: New Experimental and Clinical Evidence.

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    Harris, Lauren Jay

    This paper presents background information, an introductory statement of theoretical positions, and brief abstracts of research papers from a symposium on the functional specialization of cerebral hemispheres in infants and children. According to one view of the development of cerebral specialization, the two hemispheres are initially…

  3. 77 FR 797 - National Institutes of Health Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ..., analytical, evaluative, and legislative functions that support NCATS program development, science policy..., formerly HN E32) (1) Plans, designs, develops and manages a diverse portfolio of training and career... scientific areas of interest across NIH; (4) engages in activities designed to ensure that NIH addresses...

  4. 77 FR 23250 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority; Administration for Community...

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    ... Community Living (ACL) provides national leadership and direction to plan, manage, develop, and raise... Management and Budget (BE) B.20 Functions. ACL is the principal agency designated to lead aging and... executive direction, leadership, and guidance for ACL programs, and serves as the focal point for the...

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    ... management functions for the Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the OASH. Specifically, this notice establishes the Division of Policy and Performance Management (ACB2), the Division of Strategic Communication (ACB3) and the Division of Program Innovation (ACB4) within the Office on Women's Health (ACB). The...

  6. 75 FR 70274 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ... establishment of a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and to update the organization for CMS, as... Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (FCP).'' (2.) Under Part F, CMS, FC. 20 Functions, insert the following after the description of the Center for Medicare (FCH): Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (FCP...

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    ... Information Technology (ONC), as last amended at 74 FR 62785- 62786, dated December 1, 2009, is corrected as... the Secretary or by the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, all delegations and..., Functions, and Delegations of Authority; Office of the National Coordinator for Health and Information...

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    ... components of ACF as well as other public, private, and voluntary sector partners, ADD develops and..., intergovernmental and public-private sector agreements, committees, task forces, commissions or joint-funding... the function to ADD as a result of the Charter Amendment for PCPID governed by Public Law 92-463...

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    ... the resulting publications. Abstract: The primary functions of the National Agricultural Statistics..., filing of petitions and applications and agency #0;statements of organization and functions are examples..., 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to afford strict confidentiality to non- aggregated data provided...

  11. Color-Tunable Mirrors Based on Electrically Regulated Bandwidth Broadening in Polymer-Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (Postprint)

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    2014-10-01

    DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT. //Signature// //Signature// TIMOTHY J. WHITE CHRISTOPHER D. BREWER, Chief Photonic Materials Branch... Photonic Materials Branch Functional Materials Division Functional Materials Division //Signature// TIMOTHY J. BUNNING, Chief Functional...LIQUID CRYSTALS (POSTPRINT) 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER FA8650-09-D-5434-0009 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 62102F 6. AUTHOR(S

  12. Rasch Analysis of the Student Refractive Error and Eyeglass Questionnaire

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    Crescioni, Mabel; Messer, Dawn H.; Warholak, Terri L.; Miller, Joseph M.; Twelker, J. Daniel; Harvey, Erin M.

    2014-01-01

    Purpose To evaluate and refine a newly developed instrument, the Student Refractive Error and Eyeglasses Questionnaire (SREEQ), designed to measure the impact of uncorrected and corrected refractive error on vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) in school-aged children. Methods. A 38 statement instrument consisting of two parts was developed: Part A relates to perceptions regarding uncorrected vision and Part B relates to perceptions regarding corrected vision and includes other statements regarding VRQoL with spectacle correction. The SREEQ was administered to 200 Native American 6th through 12th grade students known to have previously worn and who currently require eyeglasses. Rasch analysis was conducted to evaluate the functioning of the SREEQ. Statements on Part A and Part B were analyzed to examine the dimensionality and constructs of the questionnaire, how well the items functioned, and the appropriateness of the response scale used. Results Rasch analysis suggested two items be eliminated and the measurement scale for matching items be reduced from a 4-point response scale to a 3-point response scale. With these modifications, categorical data were converted to interval level data, to conduct an item and person analysis. A shortened version of the SREEQ was constructed with these modifications, the SREEQ-R, which included the statements that were able to capture changes in VRQoL associated with spectacle wear for those with significant refractive error in our study population. Conclusions While the SREEQ Part B appears to be a have less than optimal reliability to assess the impact of spectacle correction on VRQoL in our student population, it is also able to detect statistically significant differences from pretest to posttest on both the group and individual levels to show that the instrument can assess the impact that glasses have on VRQoL. Further modifications to the questionnaire, such as those included in the SREEQ-R, could enhance its functionality. PMID:24811844

  13. 75 FR 51881 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Regulation Project

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    ... Corporations. The regulation provides that financial statement information must be expressed in U.S. dollars translated according to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and permits functional reporting of...

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    ... influenza viruses and illness; (3) improves vaccines and other interventions; and (4) applies research to.... Epidemiology and Prevention Branch (CVGDC). (1) Conducts surveillance and research activities to better...

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    ..., performance measurement, and improvement of SAMHSA administrative and management services; (3) provides...) coordinates and manages General Accounting Office (GAO) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews of the...

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  1. 76 FR 24491 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

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    ...) ensures a safe working environment in NCIRD laboratories; (4) collaborates effectively with other centers... diseases strategic prevention priorities; (3) interfaces with other CDC CIOs working in the area of...

  2. 18 CFR 367.30 - Cost accumulation system for associate companies.

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    ... the functional processes of the associate companies served. To permit the classification, each service... all service company employees in order to support the accounting allocation of all expenses assignable...

  3. Constrained optimization by radial basis function interpolation for high-dimensional expensive black-box problems with infeasible initial points

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    Regis, Rommel G.

    2014-02-01

    This article develops two new algorithms for constrained expensive black-box optimization that use radial basis function surrogates for the objective and constraint functions. These algorithms are called COBRA and Extended ConstrLMSRBF and, unlike previous surrogate-based approaches, they can be used for high-dimensional problems where all initial points are infeasible. They both follow a two-phase approach where the first phase finds a feasible point while the second phase improves this feasible point. COBRA and Extended ConstrLMSRBF are compared with alternative methods on 20 test problems and on the MOPTA08 benchmark automotive problem (D.R. Jones, Presented at MOPTA 2008), which has 124 decision variables and 68 black-box inequality constraints. The alternatives include a sequential penalty derivative-free algorithm, a direct search method with kriging surrogates, and two multistart methods. Numerical results show that COBRA algorithms are competitive with Extended ConstrLMSRBF and they generally outperform the alternatives on the MOPTA08 problem and most of the test problems.

  4. To outsource or not to outsource: Examining the effects of outsourcing IT functions on financial performance in hospitals.

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    Menachemi, Nir; Burkhardt, Jeffrey; Shewchuk, Richard; Burke, Darrell; Brooks, Robert G

    2007-01-01

    Outsourcing of information technology (IT) functions is a popular strategy with both potential benefits and risks for hospitals. Anecdotal evidence, based on case studies, suggests that outsourcing may be associated with significant cost savings. However, no generalizable evidence exists to support such assertions. This study examines whether outsourcing IT functions is related to improved financial performance in hospitals. Primary survey data on IT outsourcing behavior were combined with secondary data on hospital financial performance. Regression analyses examined the relationship between outsourcing and various measures of financial performance while controlling for bed size, average patient acuity, geographic location, and overall IT adoption. Complete data from a total of 83 Florida hospitals were available for analyses. Findings suggest that the decision to outsource IT functions is not related to any of the hospital financial performance measures that were examined. Specifically, outsourcing of IT functions did not correlate with net inpatient revenue, net patient revenue, hospital expenses, total expenses, cash flow ratio, operating margin, or total margin. In most cases, IT outsourcing is not necessarily a cost-lowering strategy, but instead, a cost-neutral manner in which to accomplish an organizational strategy.

  5. 76 FR 28961 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

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    ... Regional Service Center, Functional Automation & Information Management Section, 4040 North Fairfax Drive... confirming billing or expense data. The DoD ``Blanket Routine Uses'' set forth at the beginning of the Office...

  6. 49 CFR 1242.06 - Instructions for separation.

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    2010-10-01

    ... expenses for Way and Structures administration functions: 11—Salaries and wages, 21—Materials, tools... be individually applied to the separation rules in § 1242.10. In each case, the independent accounts...

  7. The Enhancement of Concurrent Processing through Functional Programming Languages.

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    1984-06-01

    ta * functional programming languages allow us to harness the pro- cessing power of computers with hundreds or even thousands of DD I 1473 EDITION OF...that it might be the best way to make imperative library", programs into functional ones which are well suited to concurrent processing. Accession For...statements in their code. We assert that functional programming languajes allok us to harness the processing power of computers with hundre4s or even

  8. Gratitude as moral sentiment: emotion-guided cooperation in economic exchange.

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    DeSteno, David; Bartlett, Monica Y; Baumann, Jolie; Williams, Lisa A; Dickens, Leah

    2010-04-01

    Economic exchange often pits options for selfish and cooperative benefit against one another. Decisions favoring communal profit at the expense of self-interest have traditionally been thought to stem from strategic control aimed at tamping down emotional responses centered on immediate resource acquisition. In the present article, evidence is provided to argue against this limited view of the role played by emotion in shaping prosociality. Findings demonstrate that the social emotion gratitude functions to engender cooperative economic exchange even at the expense of greater individual financial gains. Using real-time inductions, increased gratitude is shown to directly mediate increased monetary giving within the context of an economic game, even where such giving increases communal profit at the expense of individual gains. Moreover, increased giving occurred regardless of whether the beneficiary was a known individual or complete stranger, thereby removing the possibility that it stemmed from simple awareness of reciprocity constraints. Copyright 2010 APA, all rights reserved.

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  10. Design Development Plans for Altamont Junior High School, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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    Lutes and Amundson, Architects and Community Planners, Springfield, OR.

    The architects, with the teaching staff, administration, students, and community, worked as a team to make a coordinated statement of the physical, functional, and esthetic proposals for a new school. The space and functional requirements of each teaching area have been documented and analyzed to arrive at a realistic appraisal of need for the…

  11. Social Behavior in Medulloblastoma: Functional Analysis of Tumor-Supporting Glial Cells

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    2014-07-01

    AD_________________ Award Number: W81XWH-11-1-0557 TITLE: Social behavior in Medulloblastoma ... Medulloblastoma : Functional Analysis of Tumor-Supporting 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER Glial Cells 5b. GRANT NUMBER W81XWH-11-1-0557 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT...AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Medulloblastoma is the

  12. Andreas Vesalius on the anatomy and function of the lower thoracic vertebrae.

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    Biesbrouck, Maurits; Vanden Berghe, Alex

    2016-04-01

    Some remarkable statements made by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) in his principal work De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) about the anatomy and function of the lower thoracic vertebrae are discussed in the light of information from the literature. Their accuracy is evaluated on the basis of several pieces of anatomical evidence and clinical cases.

  13. Upscaling from particle models to entropic gradient flows

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    Dirr, Nicolas; Laschos, Vaios; Zimmer, Johannes

    2012-06-01

    We prove that, for the case of Gaussians on the real line, the functional derived by a time discretization of the diffusion equation as entropic gradient flow is asymptotically equivalent to the rate functional derived from the underlying microscopic process. This result strengthens a conjecture that the same statement is actually true for all measures with second finite moment.

  14. What's That You're Saying? Children with Better Executive Functioning Produce and Repair Communication More Effectively

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    Bacso, Sarah A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.

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  1. Hippocampal Contribution to Context Encoding across Development Is Disrupted following Early-Life Adversity.

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    Lambert, Hilary K; Sheridan, Margaret A; Sambrook, Kelly A; Rosen, Maya L; Askren, Mary K; McLaughlin, Katie A

    2017-02-15

    Context can drastically influence responses to environmental stimuli. For example, a gunshot should provoke a different response at a public park than a shooting range. Little is known about how contextual processing and neural correlates change across human development or about individual differences related to early environmental experiences. Children ( N = 60; 8-19 years, 24 exposed to interpersonal violence) completed a context encoding task during fMRI scanning using a delayed match-to-sample design with neutral, happy, and angry facial cues embedded in realistic background scenes. Outside the scanner, participants completed a memory test for context-face pairings. Context memory and neural correlates of context encoding did not vary with age. Larger hippocampal volume was associated with better context memory. Posterior hippocampus was recruited during context encoding, and greater activation in this region predicted better memory for contexts paired with angry faces. Children exposed to violence had poor memory of contexts paired with angry faces, reduced hippocampal volume, and atypical neural recruitment on encoding trials with angry faces, including reduced hippocampal activation and greater functional connectivity between hippocampus and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC). Greater hippocampus-vlPFC connectivity was associated with worse memory for contexts paired with angry faces. Posterior hippocampus appears to support context encoding, a process that does not exhibit age-related variation from middle childhood to late adolescence. Exposure to dangerous environments in childhood is associated with poor context encoding in the presence of threat, likely due to greater vlPFC-dependent attentional narrowing on threat cues at the expense of hippocampus-dependent processing of the broader context. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The ability to use context to guide reactions to environmental stimuli promotes flexible behavior. Remarkably little research has examined how contextual processing changes across development or about influences of the early environment. We provide evidence for posterior hippocampus involvement in context encoding in youth and lack of age-related variation from middle childhood to late adolescence. Children exposed to interpersonal violence exhibited poor memory of contexts paired with angry faces and atypical neural recruitment during context encoding in the presence of threatening facial cues. Heightened attention to threat following violence exposure may come at the expense of encoding contextual information, which may ultimately contribute to pathological fear expressed in safe contexts. Copyright © 2017 the authors 0270-6474/17/371925-10$15.00/0.

  2. Economic aspects of drug substitution

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    Salehi, Hossein; Schweitzer, Stuart O.

    1985-01-01

    One of the major directions of health policy is the attempt to contain expenditures on pharmaceuticals by encouraging substitution of generic for brand name drug products. Yet, a major marketing survey of prescribing and dispensing patterns in California in 1977 found relatively little drug substitution occurring, and in fact substitution of more expensive products occurred more frequently than did substitution of less expensive products. This article tests alternative models of pharmacy dispensing behavior to better explain substitution patterns and it estimates price functions to measure the extent to which cost savings on generic products are passed on to consumers. PMID:10311162

  3. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression and cellular functions induced by butyrate, an example of interactions between gene and nutrients

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    Epigenetics has been defined as ‘the study of heritable changes in genome function that occur without a change in DNA sequence. Research on nutrigenomics, the genome-nutrient interface and epigenomics is in its infancy with respect to livestock species. Feed costs are the single greatest expense t...

  4. Do we really need to thank the Beatles for the financing of the development of the computed tomography scanner?

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    Maizlin, Zeev V; Vos, Patrick M

    2012-01-01

    It is commonly believed that the revenues from the selling of the Beatles' records by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) allowed the company to develop the computed tomography (CT) scanner. Some went to define this as the Beatles' gift to medicine. However, significant controversies and discrepancies arise from analysis of this statement, making its correctness doubtful. The details of financing required for the CT development and the part of EMI in financial input have never been publicly announced. This work analyzes the financial contributions to the CT development and investigates if the revenues received from the sales of the Beatles' records were used for the creation of the CT scanner. Timeline of the development of the EMI CT scanner and the financial inputs of EMI and British Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) were assessed. Without salary expenses to Godfrey Hounsfield and his team, the development of the CT scanner cost EMI approximately £100,000. The British DHSS's expenses were £606,000. Hence, the financial contribution of DHSS into the development of the CT scanner was significantly bigger than that of EMI. Accordingly, British tax payers and officials of British DHSS are to be thanked for the CT scanner. The Beatles' input into the world's culture is valuable and does not require decoration by nonexistent connection to the development of CT. A positive aspect to this misconception is that it keeps in public memory the name of the company that developed the CT scanner.

  5. Coal ash by-product reutilization

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    Muncy, J.; Miller, B.

    1997-09-01

    Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has as part of its vision and value statement that, ``We are responsible stewards of environmental and corporate resources.`` With this moral imperative in mind, a project team was charged with initiating the Coal Pile Liner Project--installing a membrane liner under the existing coal storage pile at the Morgantown Generating Station. The existing coal yard facilities were constructed prior to the current environmental regulations, and it became necessary to upgrade the storage facilities to be environmentally friendly. The project team had two objectives in this project: (1) prevent coal pile leachate from entering the groundwatermore » system; (2) test the viability of using coal ash by-products as an aggregate substitute for concrete applications. Both objectives were met, and two additional benefits were achieved as well: (1) the use of coal ash by-products as a coal liner produced significant cost savings to the project directly; (2) the use of coal ash by-products reduced plant operation and maintenance expenses.« less

  6. Evaluating the effects of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans on consumer behavior and health: methodological challenges.

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    Guthrie, Joanne F; Smallwood, David M

    2003-12-01

    The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is the official nutrition policy statement for the United States. Government involvement in providing information on private behavior, such as food choice, is justified by the high cost of poor diets, as measured in medical expenses and lost productivity. The Guidelines are intended to provide an up-to-date, consistent information base for federal nutrition education and information efforts and food assistance program regulations. Through these policy mechanisms, the Guidelines are assumed to improve dietary behavior, and, ultimately, health. By law, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans must be updated every five years; however, there is no mandate for evaluation. Evaluation could provide useful information to assess the extent to which the Guidelines positively influence health and provide insights into reasons for their successes and limitations. However, evaluation would also present considerable challenges. This paper discusses the critical data and methodological needs for improving evaluation of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

  7. Should Lecture Recordings Be Mandated in Dental Schools? Two Viewpoints: Viewpoint 1: Lecture Recordings Should Be Mandatory in U.S. Dental Schools and Viewpoint 2: Lecture Recordings Should Not Be Mandatory in U.S. Dental Schools.

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    Zandona, Andrea Ferreira; Kinney, Janet; Seong, WookJin; Kumar, Vandana; Bendayan, Alexander; Hewlett, Edmond

    2016-12-01

    Transcription or recording of lectures has been in use for many years, and with the availability of high-fidelity recording, the practice is now ubiquitous in higher education. Since technology has permeated education and today's tech-savvy students have expectations for on-demand learning, dental schools are motivated to record lectures, albeit with positive and negative implications. This Point/Counterpoint article addresses the question of whether lecture recording should be mandatory in U.S. dental schools. Viewpoint 1 supports the statement that lecture recording should be mandatory. Proponents of this viewpoint argue that the benefits-notably, student satisfaction and potential for improvement in student performance-outweigh concerns. Viewpoint 2 takes the opposite position, arguing that lecture recording decreases students' classroom attendance and adversely affects the morale of educators. Additional arguments against mandatory lecture recordings involve the expense of incorporating technology that requires ongoing support.

  8. Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) position statement: improving access to psychosocial care for individuals with persistent pain: supporting the National Pain Strategy's call for interdisciplinary pain care.

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    Janke, E Amy; Cheatle, Martin; Keefe, Francis J; Dhingra, Lara

    2018-03-01

    Policy makers have articulated a need for clear, evidence-based guidance to help inform pain policy. Persistent pain is common, expensive, and debilitating, and requires comprehensive assessment and treatment planning. Recently released opioid prescribing guidelines by the CDC (2016) emphasize the importance of using nonopioid therapies before considering opioid treatment for those without a malignant illness. The National Pain Strategy (2016) underscores the importance of comprehensive, interdisciplinary pain care. Unfortunately, despite persuasive evidence supporting the efficacy of psychosocial approaches, these interventions are inaccessible to the majority of Americans. Psychosocial approaches to pain management should be available for all individuals with persistent pain and in all health care settings and contexts as part of the comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to pain care as outlined in the National Pain Strategy. To achieve this, we must prioritize reimbursement of evidence-based psychosocial approaches for pain assessment and management and improve provider training and competencies to implement these approaches.

  9. Autism research funding allocation: can economics tell us if we have got it right?

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    Zwicker, Jennifer D; Emery, J C Herbert

    2014-12-01

    There is a concern that the allocation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research funding may be misallocating resources, overemphasizing basic science at the expense of translational and clinical research. Anthony Bailey has proposed that an economic evaluation of autism research funding allocations could be beneficial for funding agencies by identifying under- or overfunded areas of research. In response to Bailey, we illustrate why economics cannot provide an objective, technical solution for identifying the "best" allocation of research resources. Economic evaluation has its greatest power as a late-stage research tool for interventions with identified objectives, outcomes, and data. This is not the case for evaluating whether research areas are over- or underfunded. Without an understanding of how research funding influences the likelihood and value of a discovery, or without a statement of the societal objectives for ASD research and level of risk aversion, economic analysis cannot provide a useful normative evaluation of ASD research. © 2014 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  10. A mixed-methods study identifying key intervention targets to improve participation in daily living activities in primary Sjögren's syndrome patients.

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    Hackett, Katie L; Deane, Katherine H O; Newton, Julia L; Deary, Vincent; Bowman, Simon; Rapley, Tim; Ng, Wan-Fai

    2018-02-06

    Functional ability and participation in life situations are compromised in many primary Sjögren's syndrome (PSS) patients. This study aims to identify the key barriers and priorities to participation in daily living activities, in order to develop potential future interventions. Group concept mapping (GCM), a semi-quantitative, mixed-methods, approach was used to identify and structure ideas from UK PSS patients, adults living with a PSS patient (AHMs) and health care professionals (HCPs). Brainstorming generated ideas, which were summarised into a final set of statements. Participants individually arranged these statements into themes and rated each statement for importance. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis were applied to sorted and rated data to produce visual representations of the ideas (concept maps), enabling identification of agreed priority areas for interventions. 121 patients, 43 AHMs and 67 HCPs took part. 463 ideas were distilled down to 94 statements. These statements were grouped into seven clusters; 'Patient empowerment', 'Symptoms', 'Wellbeing', 'Access and coordination of healthcare', 'Knowledge and support', 'Public awareness and support' and 'Family and friends'. Patient empowerment and Symptoms were rated as priority conceptual themes. Important statements within priority clusters indicate patients should be taken seriously and supported to self-manage symptoms of oral and ocular dryness, fatigue, pain and poor sleep. Our data highlighted that in addition to managing PSS symptoms; interventions aiming to improve patient empowerment, general wellbeing, access to healthcare, patient education and social support are important to facilitate improved participation in daily living activities. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

  11. The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief.

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    Harris, Sam; Kaplan, Jonas T; Curiel, Ashley; Bookheimer, Susan Y; Iacoboni, Marco; Cohen, Mark S

    2009-10-01

    While religious faith remains one of the most significant features of human life, little is known about its relationship to ordinary belief at the level of the brain. Nor is it known whether religious believers and nonbelievers differ in how they evaluate statements of fact. Our lab previously has used functional neuroimaging to study belief as a general mode of cognition [1], and others have looked specifically at religious belief [2]. However, no research has compared these two states of mind directly. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure signal changes in the brains of thirty subjects-fifteen committed Christians and fifteen nonbelievers-as they evaluated the truth and falsity of religious and nonreligious propositions. For both groups, and in both categories of stimuli, belief (judgments of "true" vs judgments of "false") was associated with greater signal in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area important for self-representation [3], [4], [5], [6], emotional associations [7], reward [8], [9], [10], and goal-driven behavior [11]. This region showed greater signal whether subjects believed statements about God, the Virgin Birth, etc. or statements about ordinary facts. A comparison of both stimulus categories suggests that religious thinking is more associated with brain regions that govern emotion, self-representation, and cognitive conflict, while thinking about ordinary facts is more reliant upon memory retrieval networks. While religious and nonreligious thinking differentially engage broad regions of the frontal, parietal, and medial temporal lobes, the difference between belief and disbelief appears to be content-independent. Our study compares religious thinking with ordinary cognition and, as such, constitutes a step toward developing a neuropsychology of religion. However, these findings may also further our understanding of how the brain accepts statements of all kinds to be valid descriptions of the world.

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  16. The Mexican consensus on chronic constipation.

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    Remes-Troche, J M; Coss-Adame, E; Lopéz-Colombo, A; Amieva-Balmori, M; Carmona Sánchez, R; Charúa Guindic, L; Flores Rendón, R; Gómez Escudero, O; González Martínez, M; Icaza Chávez, M E; Morales Arámbula, M; Schmulson, M; Tamayo de la Cuesta, J L; Valdovinos, M Á; Vázquez Elizondo, G

    Significant advances have been made in the knowledge and understanding of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic constipation, since the publication of the 2011 guidelines on chronic constipation diagnosis and treatment in Mexico from the Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología. To present a consensus review of the current state of knowledge about chronic constipation, providing updated information and integrating the new scientific evidence. Three general coordinators reviewed the literature published within the time frame of January 2011 and January 2017. From that information, 62 initial statements were formulated and then sent to 12 national experts for their revision. The statements were voted upon, using the Delphi system in 3 voting rounds (2 electronic and one face-to-face). The statements were classified through the GRADE system and those that reached agreement >75% were included in the consensus. The present consensus is made up of 42 final statements that provide updated knowledge, supplementing the information that had not been included in the previous guidelines. The strength of recommendation and quality (level) of evidence were established for each statement. The current definitions of chronic constipation, functional constipation, and opioid-induced constipation are given, and diagnostic strategies based on the available diagnostic methods are described. The consensus treatment recommendations were established from evidence on the roles of diet and exercise, fiber, laxatives, new drugs (such as prucalopride, lubiprostone, linaclotide, plecanatide), biofeedback therapy, and surgery. Copyright © 2018. Publicado por Masson Doyma México S.A.

  17. Multi-Function Displays: A Guide for Human Factors Evaluation

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    mental workload in rotary wing aircraft . Ergonomics , 36, 1121 - 40. Smith, S., & Mosier, J. (1984). Design guidelines for the user interface for...Monterey Technologies, Inc., except one designated by (*), who is from CAMI. 16. Abstract This guide is designed to assist aircraft ...section. 17. Key Words 18. Distribution Statement Multi-Function Displays, Display Design , Avionics, Human Factors Criteria, Aircraft

  18. A Framework for the Development of Mathematical Thinking with Teacher Trainees: The Case of Continuity of Functions

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    Brijlall, Deonarain; Maharaj, Aneshkumar

    2011-01-01

    Continuity of functions appears throughout the grades in South African high school (FET (further education and training)) topics as prescribed by the final draft of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. This article reports on the use of a combined framework of APOS (action-process-object-schema) and DCT (dual coding theories) to analyze…

  19. Chronic disease, functional health status, and demographics: a multi-dimensional approach to risk adjustment.

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    Hornbrook, M C; Goodman, M J

    1996-01-01

    OBJECTIVE. The goal of this study was to develop unbiased risk-assessment models to be used for paying health plans on the basis of enrollee health status and use propensity. We explored the risk structure of adult employed HMO members using self-reported morbidities, functional status, perceived health status, and demographic characteristics. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING. Data were collected on a random sample of members of a large, federally qualified, prepaid group practice, hospital-based HMO located in the Pacific Northwest. STUDY DESIGN. Multivariate linear nonparametric techniques were used to estimate risk weights on demographic, morbidity, and health status factors at the individual level. The dependent variable was annual real total health plan expense for covered services for the year following the survey. Repeated random split-sample validation techniques minimized outlier influences and avoided inappropriate distributional assumptions required by parametric techniques. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS. A mail questionnaire containing an abbreviated medical history and the RAND-36 Health Survey was administered to a 5 percent sample of adult subscribers and their spouses in 1990 and 1991, with an overall 44 percent response rate. Utilization data were extracted from HMO automated information systems. Annual expenses were computed by weighting all utilization elements by standard unit costs for the HMO. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS. Prevalence of such major chronic diseases as heart disease, diabetes, depression, and asthma improve prediction of future medical expense; functional health status and morbidities are each better than simple demographic factors alone; functional and perceived health status as well as demographic characteristics and diagnoses together yield the best prediction performance and reduce opportunities for selection bias. We also found evidence of important interaction effects between functional/perceived health status scales and disease classes. CONCLUSIONS. Self-reported morbidities and functional health status are useful risk measures for adults. Risk-assessment research should focus on combining clinical information with social survey techniques to capitalize on the strengths of both approaches. Disease-specific functional health status scales should be developed and tested to capture the most information for prediction. PMID:8698586

  20. Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) position statement on exercise prescription for the prevention and management of osteoporosis.

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    Beck, Belinda R; Daly, Robin M; Singh, Maria A Fiatarone; Taaffe, Dennis R

    2017-05-01

    Osteoporotic fractures are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Although exercise has long been recommended for the prevention and management of osteoporosis, existing guidelines are often non-specific and do not account for individual differences in bone health, fracture risk and functional capacity. The aim of the current position statement is to provide health practitioners with specific, evidence-based guidelines for safe and effective exercise prescription for the prevention or management of osteoporosis, accommodating a range of potential comorbidities. Position statement. Interpretation and application of research reports describing the effects of exercise interventions for the prevention and management of low bone mass, osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture. Evidence from animal and human trials indicates that bone responds positively to impact activities and high intensity progressive resistance training. Furthermore, the optimisation of muscle strength, balance and mobility minimises the risk of falls (and thereby fracture), which is particularly relevant for individuals with limited functional capacity and/or a very high risk of osteoporotic fracture. It is important that all exercise programs be accompanied by sufficient calcium and vitamin D, and address issues of comorbidity and safety. For example, loaded spine flexion is not recommended, and impact activities may require modification in the presence of osteoarthritis or frailty. Specific guidelines for safe and effective exercise for bone health are presented. Individual exercise prescription must take into account existing bone health status, co-morbidities, and functional or clinical risk factors for falls and fracture. Copyright © 2016 Sports Medicine Australia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  4. Using Approximations to Accelerate Engineering Design Optimization

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    Torczon, Virginia; Trosset, Michael W.

    1998-01-01

    Optimization problems that arise in engineering design are often characterized by several features that hinder the use of standard nonlinear optimization techniques. Foremost among these features is that the functions used to define the engineering optimization problem often are computationally intensive. Within a standard nonlinear optimization algorithm, the computational expense of evaluating the functions that define the problem would necessarily be incurred for each iteration of the optimization algorithm. Faced with such prohibitive computational costs, an attractive alternative is to make use of surrogates within an optimization context since surrogates can be chosen or constructed so that they are typically much less expensive to compute. For the purposes of this paper, we will focus on the use of algebraic approximations as surrogates for the objective. In this paper we introduce the use of so-called merit functions that explicitly recognize the desirability of improving the current approximation to the objective during the course of the optimization. We define and experiment with the use of merit functions chosen to simultaneously improve both the solution to the optimization problem (the objective) and the quality of the approximation. Our goal is to further improve the effectiveness of our general approach without sacrificing any of its rigor.

  5. [System analytical approach of lung function and hemodynamics].

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    Naszlady, Attila; Kiss, Lajos

    2009-02-15

    The authors critically analyse the traditional views in physiology and complete them with new statements based on computer model simulations of lung function and of hemodynamics. Conclusions are derived for the clinical practice as follows: the four-dimensional function curves are similar in both systems; there is a "waterfall" zone in the pulmonary blood perfusion; the various time constants of pulmonary regions can modify the blood gas values; pulmonary capillary pressure is equal to pulmonary arterial diastole pressure; heart is not a pressure pump, but a flow source; ventricles are loaded by the input impedance of the arterial systems and not by the total vascular (ohmlike) resistance; optimum heart rate in rest depends on the length of the aorta; this law of heart rate, based on the principle of resonance is valid along the mammalian allometric line; tachycardia decreases the input impedance; using positive end expiratory pressure respirators the blood gas of pulmonary artery should be followed; coronary circulation should be assessed in beat per milliliter, the milliliter per minute may be false. These statements are compared to related references.

  6. Why are dunkels sticky? Preschoolers infer functionality and intentional creation for artifact properties learned from generic language.

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    Cimpian, Andrei; Cadena, Cristina

    2010-10-01

    Artifacts pose a potential learning problem for children because the mapping between their features and their functions is often not transparent. In solving this problem, children are likely to rely on a number of information sources (e.g., others' actions, affordances). We argue that children's sensitivity to nuances in the language used to describe artifacts is an important, but so far unacknowledged, piece of this puzzle. Specifically, we hypothesize that children are sensitive to whether an unfamiliar artifact's features are highlighted using generic (e.g., "Dunkels are sticky") or non-generic (e.g., "This dunkel is sticky") language. Across two studies, older-but not younger-preschoolers who heard such features introduced via generic statements inferred that they are a functional part of the artifact's design more often than children who heard the same features introduced via non-generic statements. The ability to pick up on this linguistic cue may expand considerably the amount of conceptual information about artifacts that children derive from conversations with adults. Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  7. Software Regression Verification

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    input argument of f consists of two stages. First, it builds a System Defi- nition Graph [HRB90] ( SDG ) for program P where f is defined. Briefly, an SDG ...their partial order: the semantics of the function is preserved if its statements are executed in this order. An SDG consists of PDGs for each function...this function, the SDG contains a node of type u = uing and an edge entering this node and leaving node ”Enter g”. Each node representing a call to

  8. Analysis of Commuter Rail Costs and Cost Allocation Methods

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    1983-07-01

    The report addresses the issues of commuter rail service costs and the compensation methods used to allocate railroad expenses to the commuter service function. The report consists of six sections. Section 1 describes the study purpose, scope, method...

  9. Multiobjective Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using Pareto Differential Evolution and Generalized Response Surface Metamodels

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    Madavan, Nateri K.

    2004-01-01

    Differential Evolution (DE) is a simple, fast, and robust evolutionary algorithm that has proven effective in determining the global optimum for several difficult single-objective optimization problems. The DE algorithm has been recently extended to multiobjective optimization problem by using a Pareto-based approach. In this paper, a Pareto DE algorithm is applied to multiobjective aerodynamic shape optimization problems that are characterized by computationally expensive objective function evaluations. To improve computational expensive the algorithm is coupled with generalized response surface meta-models based on artificial neural networks. Results are presented for some test optimization problems from the literature to demonstrate the capabilities of the method.

  10. Energetic cost of communication.

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    Stoddard, Philip K; Salazar, Vielka L

    2011-01-15

    Communication signals may be energetically expensive or inexpensive to produce, depending on the function of the signal and the competitive nature of the communication system. Males of sexually selected species may produce high-energy advertisement signals, both to enhance detectability and to signal their size and body condition. Accordingly, the proportion of the energy budget allocated to signal production ranges from almost nothing for many signals to somewhere in excess of 50% for acoustic signals in short-lived sexually selected species. Recent data from gymnotiform electric fish reveal mechanisms that regulate energy allocated to sexual advertisement signals through dynamical remodeling of the excitable membranes in the electric organ. Further, males of the short-lived sexually selected species, Brachyhypopomus gauderio, trade off among different metabolic compartments, allocating energy to signal production while reducing energy used in other metabolic functions. Female B. gauderio, by contrast, do not trade off energy between signaling and other functions. To fuel energetically expensive signal production, we expect a continuum of strategies to be adopted by animals of different life history strategies. Future studies should explore the relation between life history and energy allocation trade-offs.

  11. Energetic cost of communication

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    Stoddard, Philip K.; Salazar, Vielka L.

    2011-01-01

    Communication signals may be energetically expensive or inexpensive to produce, depending on the function of the signal and the competitive nature of the communication system. Males of sexually selected species may produce high-energy advertisement signals, both to enhance detectability and to signal their size and body condition. Accordingly, the proportion of the energy budget allocated to signal production ranges from almost nothing for many signals to somewhere in excess of 50% for acoustic signals in short-lived sexually selected species. Recent data from gymnotiform electric fish reveal mechanisms that regulate energy allocated to sexual advertisement signals through dynamical remodeling of the excitable membranes in the electric organ. Further, males of the short-lived sexually selected species, Brachyhypopomus gauderio, trade off among different metabolic compartments, allocating energy to signal production while reducing energy used in other metabolic functions. Female B. gauderio, by contrast, do not trade off energy between signaling and other functions. To fuel energetically expensive signal production, we expect a continuum of strategies to be adopted by animals of different life history strategies. Future studies should explore the relation between life history and energy allocation trade-offs. PMID:21177941

  12. Brain correlates of discourse processing: An fMRI investigation of irony and conventional metaphor comprehension

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    Eviatar, Zohar; Just, Marcel Adam

    2006-01-01

    Higher levels of discourse processing evoke patterns of cognition and brain activation that extend beyond the literal comprehension of sentences. We used fMRI to examine brain activation patterns while 16 healthy participants read brief three-sentence stories that concluded with either a literal, metaphoric, or ironic sentence. The fMRI images acquired during the reading of the critical sentence revealed a selective response of the brain to the two types of nonliteral utterances. Metaphoric utterances resulted in significantly higher levels of activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus and in bilateral inferior temporal cortex than the literal and ironic utterances. Ironic statements resulted in significantly higher activation levels than literal statements in the right superior and middle temporal gyri, with metaphoric statements resulting in intermediate levels in these regions. The findings show differential hemispheric sensitivity to these aspects of figurative language, and are relevant to models of the functional cortical architecture of language processing in connected discourse. PMID:16806316

  13. Connecting Requirements to Architecture and Analysis via Model-Based Systems Engineering

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    Cole, Bjorn F.; Jenkins, J. Steven

    2015-01-01

    In traditional systems engineering practice, architecture, concept development, and requirements development are related but still separate activities. Concepts for operation, key technical approaches, and related proofs of concept are developed. These inform the formulation of an architecture at multiple levels, starting with the overall system composition and functionality and progressing into more detail. As this formulation is done, a parallel activity develops a set of English statements that constrain solutions. These requirements are often called "shall statements" since they are formulated to use "shall." The separation of requirements from design is exacerbated by well-meaning tools like the Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) that remained separated from engineering design tools. With the Europa Clipper project, efforts are being taken to change the requirements development approach from a separate activity to one intimately embedded in formulation effort. This paper presents a modeling approach and related tooling to generate English requirement statements from constraints embedded in architecture definition.

  14. 48 CFR 1307.503 - Policy.

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    ... the statement of work are inherently governmental. This policy applies to all services other than... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Policy. 1307.503 Section... PLANNING ACQUISITION PLANNING Inherently Governmental Functions 1307.503 Policy. All procurement request...

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  16. Even at a Board Meeting, Your Immunity to Defamation Suits Is Limited.

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    Henderson, Donald H.

    1986-01-01

    Common law grants immunity for defamatory statements to administrative bodies such as boards. The limitations under which board participants function in relation to immunity from defamation suits are outlined. Includes discussion of specific court cases. (MD)

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  1. 45 CFR 2103.1 - General approaches to review of plans by the Commission.

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    ...) COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS STATEMENTS OF POLICY § 2103.1 General approaches to review of plans by the Commission... herein. These functions are to serve the purpose of conserving and enhancing the visual assets which...

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    2014-10-01

    ...) COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS STATEMENTS OF POLICY § 2103.1 General approaches to review of plans by the Commission... herein. These functions are to serve the purpose of conserving and enhancing the visual assets which...

  3. 45 CFR 2103.1 - General approaches to review of plans by the Commission.

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    2013-10-01

    ...) COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS STATEMENTS OF POLICY § 2103.1 General approaches to review of plans by the Commission... herein. These functions are to serve the purpose of conserving and enhancing the visual assets which...

  4. 45 CFR 2103.1 - General approaches to review of plans by the Commission.

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    2011-10-01

    ...) COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS STATEMENTS OF POLICY § 2103.1 General approaches to review of plans by the Commission... herein. These functions are to serve the purpose of conserving and enhancing the visual assets which...

  5. 45 CFR 2103.1 - General approaches to review of plans by the Commission.

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    ...) COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS STATEMENTS OF POLICY § 2103.1 General approaches to review of plans by the Commission... herein. These functions are to serve the purpose of conserving and enhancing the visual assets which...

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  9. BioCreative V track 4: a shared task for the extraction of causal network information using the Biological Expression Language.

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    Rinaldi, Fabio; Ellendorff, Tilia Renate; Madan, Sumit; Clematide, Simon; van der Lek, Adrian; Mevissen, Theo; Fluck, Juliane

    2016-01-01

    Automatic extraction of biological network information is one of the most desired and most complex tasks in biological and medical text mining. Track 4 at BioCreative V attempts to approach this complexity using fragments of large-scale manually curated biological networks, represented in Biological Expression Language (BEL), as training and test data. BEL is an advanced knowledge representation format which has been designed to be both human readable and machine processable. The specific goal of track 4 was to evaluate text mining systems capable of automatically constructing BEL statements from given evidence text, and of retrieving evidence text for given BEL statements. Given the complexity of the task, we designed an evaluation methodology which gives credit to partially correct statements. We identified various levels of information expressed by BEL statements, such as entities, functions, relations, and introduced an evaluation framework which rewards systems capable of delivering useful BEL fragments at each of these levels. The aim of this evaluation method is to help identify the characteristics of the systems which, if combined, would be most useful for achieving the overall goal of automatically constructing causal biological networks from text. © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press.

  10. The current theoretical assumptions of the Bobath concept as determined by the members of BBTA.

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    Raine, Sue

    2007-01-01

    The Bobath concept is a problem-solving approach to the assessment and treatment of individuals following a lesion of the central nervous system that offers therapists a framework for their clinical practice. The aim of this study was to facilitate a group of experts in determining the current theoretical assumptions underpinning the Bobath concept.A four-round Delphi study was used. The expert sample included all 15 members of the British Bobath Tutors Association. Initial statements were identified from the literature with respondents generating additional statements. Level of agreement was determined by using a five-point Likert scale. Level of consensus was set at 80%. Eighty-five statements were rated from the literature along with 115 generated by the group. Ninety-three statements were identified as representing the theoretical underpinning of the Bobath concept. The Bobath experts agreed that therapists need to be aware of the principles of motor learning such as active participation, opportunities for practice and meaningful goals. They emphasized that therapy is an interactive process between individual, therapist, and the environment and aims to promote efficiency of movement to the individual's maximum potential rather than normal movement. Treatment was identified by the experts as having "change of functional outcome" at its center.

  11. Numerical Optimization Using Computer Experiments

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    Trosset, Michael W.; Torczon, Virginia

    1997-01-01

    Engineering design optimization often gives rise to problems in which expensive objective functions are minimized by derivative-free methods. We propose a method for solving such problems that synthesizes ideas from the numerical optimization and computer experiment literatures. Our approach relies on kriging known function values to construct a sequence of surrogate models of the objective function that are used to guide a grid search for a minimizer. Results from numerical experiments on a standard test problem are presented.

  12. The Leadership of Groups in Organizations

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    1985-07-01

    Managemert • July, 1985 01 i J JAN14 19866 K) Abstract A theory of leadership that focusses specifically on task-performing , groups in organizations in...p:xoposed. The theory takes a functional approach to leadership , explcring how leaders fulfill functions that are required for group effectiveness...that there are no theories of leadership around. There are theories of managerial leadership , from the classic statements of organization theorists

  13. Energy Emergency Management Information System (EEMIS): Functional requirements

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    1980-10-01

    These guidelines state that in order to create the widest practicable competition, the system's requirements, with few exceptions, must be expressed in functional terms without reference to specific hardware or software products, and that wherever exceptions are made a statement of justification must be provided. In addition, these guidelines set forth a recommended maximum threshold limit of annual contract value for schedule contract procurements.

  14. World Endometriosis Society consensus on the classification of endometriosis.

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    Johnson, Neil P; Hummelshoj, Lone; Adamson, G David; Keckstein, Jörg; Taylor, Hugh S; Abrao, Mauricio S; Bush, Deborah; Kiesel, Ludwig; Tamimi, Rulla; Sharpe-Timms, Kathy L; Rombauts, Luk; Giudice, Linda C

    2017-02-01

    What is the global consensus on the classification of endometriosis that considers the views of women with endometriosis? We have produced an international consensus statement on the classification of endometriosis through systematic appraisal of evidence and a consensus process that included representatives of national and international, medical and non-medical societies, patient organizations, and companies with an interest in endometriosis. Classification systems of endometriosis, developed by several professional organizations, traditionally have been based on lesion appearance, pelvic adhesions, and anatomic location of disease. One system predicts fertility outcome and none predicts pelvic pain, response to medications, disease recurrence, risks for associated disorders, quality of life measures, and other endpoints important to women and health care providers for guiding appropriate therapeutic options and prognosis. A consensus meeting, in conjunction with pre- and post-meeting processes, was undertaken. A consensus meeting was held on 30 April 2014 in conjunction with the World Endometriosis Society's 12th World Congress on Endometriosis. Rigorous pre- and post-meeting processes, involving 55 representatives of 29 national and international, medical and non-medical organizations from a range of disciplines, led to this consensus statement. A total of 28 consensus statements were made. Of all, 10 statements had unanimous consensus, however none of the statements was made without expression of a caveat about the strength of the statement or the statement itself. Two statements did not achieve majority consensus. The statements covered women's priorities, aspects of classification, impact of low resources, as well as all the major classification systems for endometriosis. Until better classification systems are developed, we propose a classification toolbox (that includes the revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine and, where appropriate, the Enzian and Endometriosis Fertility Index staging systems), that may be used by all surgeons in each case of surgery undertaken for women with endometriosis. We also propose wider use of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project surgical and clinical data collection tools for research to improve classification of endometriosis in the future, of particular relevance when surgery is not undertaken. This consensus process differed from that of formal guideline development, although based on the same available evidence. A different group of international experts from those participating in this process may have yielded subtly different consensus statements. This is the first time that a large, global, consortium-representing 29 major stake-holding organizations, from 19 countries - has convened to systematically evaluate the best available evidence on the classification of endometriosis and reach consensus. In addition to 21 international medical organizations and companies, representatives from eight national endometriosis organizations were involved, including lay support groups, thus generating and including input from women who suffer from endometriosis in an endeavour to keep uppermost the goal of optimizing quality of life for women with endometriosis. The World Endometriosis Society convened and hosted the consensus meeting. Financial support for participants to attend the meeting was provided by the organizations that they represented. There was no other specific funding for this consensus process. Mauricio Abrao is an advisor to Bayer Pharma, and a consultant to AbbVie and AstraZeneca; G David Adamson is the Owner of Advanced Reproductive Care Inc and Ziva and a consultant to Bayer Pharma, Ferring, and AbbVie; Deborah Bush has received travel grants from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and Bayer Pharmaceuticals; Linda Giudice is a consultant to AbbVie, Juniper Pharmaceutical, and NextGen Jane, holds research grant from the NIH, is site PI on a clinical trial sponsored by Bayer, and is a shareholder in Merck and Pfizer; Lone Hummelshoj is an unpaid consultant to AbbVie; Neil Johnson has received conference expenses from Bayer Pharma, Merck-Serono, and MSD, research funding from AbbVie, and is a consultant to Vifor Pharma and Guerbet; Jörg Keckstein has received a travel grant from AbbVie; Ludwig Kiesel is a consultant to Bayer Pharma, AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Gedeon Richter, and Shionogi, and holds a research grant from Bayer Pharma; Luk Rombauts is an advisor to MSD, Merck Serono, and Ferring, and a shareholder in Monash IVF. The following have declared that they have nothing to disclose: Kathy Sharpe Timms; Rulla Tamimi; Hugh Taylor. N/A. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  15. The Two-Dimensional Gabor Function Adapted to Natural Image Statistics: A Model of Simple-Cell Receptive Fields and Sparse Structure in Images.

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    Loxley, P N

    2017-10-01

    The two-dimensional Gabor function is adapted to natural image statistics, leading to a tractable probabilistic generative model that can be used to model simple cell receptive field profiles, or generate basis functions for sparse coding applications. Learning is found to be most pronounced in three Gabor function parameters representing the size and spatial frequency of the two-dimensional Gabor function and characterized by a nonuniform probability distribution with heavy tails. All three parameters are found to be strongly correlated, resulting in a basis of multiscale Gabor functions with similar aspect ratios and size-dependent spatial frequencies. A key finding is that the distribution of receptive-field sizes is scale invariant over a wide range of values, so there is no characteristic receptive field size selected by natural image statistics. The Gabor function aspect ratio is found to be approximately conserved by the learning rules and is therefore not well determined by natural image statistics. This allows for three distinct solutions: a basis of Gabor functions with sharp orientation resolution at the expense of spatial-frequency resolution, a basis of Gabor functions with sharp spatial-frequency resolution at the expense of orientation resolution, or a basis with unit aspect ratio. Arbitrary mixtures of all three cases are also possible. Two parameters controlling the shape of the marginal distributions in a probabilistic generative model fully account for all three solutions. The best-performing probabilistic generative model for sparse coding applications is found to be a gaussian copula with Pareto marginal probability density functions.

  16. Characterizing functional complaints in patients seeking outpatient low-vision services in the United States.

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    Brown, Jamie C; Goldstein, Judith E; Chan, Tiffany L; Massof, Robert; Ramulu, Pradeep

    2014-08-01

    To characterize functional complaints of new low-vision rehabilitation patients. Prospective observational study. The Low Vision Rehabilitation Outcomes Study recruited 819 patients between 2008 and 2011 from 28 clinical centers in the United States. New patients referred for low-vision rehabilitation were asked, "What are your chief complaints about your vision?" before their appointment. Full patient statements were transcribed as free text. Two methods assessed whether statements indicated difficulty in each of 13 functional categories: (1) assessment by 2 masked clinicians reading the statement, and (2) a computerized search of the text for specific words or word fragments. Logistic regression models were used to predict the influence of age, gender, and visual acuity on the likelihood of reporting a complaint in each functional category. Prevalence and risk factors for patient concerns within various functional categories. Reading was the most common functional complaint (66.4% of patients). Other functional difficulties expressed by at least 10% of patients included driving (27.8%), using visual assistive equipment (17.5%), mobility (16.3%), performing in-home activities (15.1%), lighting and glare (11.7%), and facial recognition and social interactions (10.3%). Good agreement was noted between the masked clinician graders and the computerized algorithm for categorization of functional complaints (median κ of 0.84 across the 13 categories). Multivariate logistic regression models demonstrated that the likelihood of reading difficulties increased mildly with age (odds ratio, 1.4 per 10-year increment in age; 95% confidence interval, 1.3-1.6), but did not differ with visual acuity (P = 0.09). Additionally, men were more likely to report driving difficulties and difficulties related to lighting, whereas women were more likely to report difficulty with either in-home activities or facial recognition or social interaction (P<0.05 for all). Mobility concerns, defined as walking difficulty and out-of-home activities, showed no relationship to gender, age, or visual acuity. Reading was the most commonly reported difficulty, regardless of the patient's diagnosis. Neither visual acuity nor gender were predictive of reading concerns, although, age showed a small effect. Addressing reading rehabilitation should be a cornerstone of low-vision therapy. Copyright © 2014 American Academy of Ophthalmology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  17. 22 CFR 102.11 - Arranging for the payment of expenses attendant upon an accident.

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    ... FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United States Aircraft Accidents Abroad § 102.11 Arranging for the payment of... authorizes in advance the expenditure of such funds on a reimbursable basis. In the absence of such advance...

  18. Using Depth Recovery in Humans

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    1988-07-07

    presence of oriented luminance discontinuities or "edges" in the image data (Marr & Poggio, i976; Dey, 1975; Nelson, 1975 & 1977; Marr, Palm & Poggio, 1978...primitives, namely computational expense, is rapidly diminishing as we continue to benefit from dramatic advances in signal processing hardware...dimensional weighting function of simple cells are well fitted by Gabor functions. Pollen & Ronner (1981) demonstrated that simple cells which are tuned to

  19. Surrogate Structures for Computationally Expensive Optimization Problems With CPU-Time Correlated Functions

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    2007-06-01

    xc)−∇2g(x̃c)](x− xc). The second transformation is a space mapping function P that handles the change in variable dimensions (see Bandler et al. [11...17(2):188–217, 2004. 11. Bandler, J. W., Q. Cheng, S. Dakroury, A. S. Mohamed, M.H. Bakr, K. Madsen, J. Søndergaard. “ Space Mapping : The State of

  20. Efficient Semiparametric Inference Under Two-Phase Sampling, With Applications to Genetic Association Studies.

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    Tao, Ran; Zeng, Donglin; Lin, Dan-Yu

    2017-01-01

    In modern epidemiological and clinical studies, the covariates of interest may involve genome sequencing, biomarker assay, or medical imaging and thus are prohibitively expensive to measure on a large number of subjects. A cost-effective solution is the two-phase design, under which the outcome and inexpensive covariates are observed for all subjects during the first phase and that information is used to select subjects for measurements of expensive covariates during the second phase. For example, subjects with extreme values of quantitative traits were selected for whole-exome sequencing in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Exome Sequencing Project (ESP). Herein, we consider general two-phase designs, where the outcome can be continuous or discrete, and inexpensive covariates can be continuous and correlated with expensive covariates. We propose a semiparametric approach to regression analysis by approximating the conditional density functions of expensive covariates given inexpensive covariates with B-spline sieves. We devise a computationally efficient and numerically stable EM-algorithm to maximize the sieve likelihood. In addition, we establish the consistency, asymptotic normality, and asymptotic efficiency of the estimators. Furthermore, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed methods over existing ones through extensive simulation studies. Finally, we present applications to the aforementioned NHLBI ESP.

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