Insurance Against Drug Costs—A Progress Report

Progress in computational approach to drug development against SARS.

Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in November 2002 in Southern China's Guangdong Province, considerable progress has been made in the development of drugs for SARS therapy. The present mini review is focused on the area of computer-aided drug discovery, i.e., the advances achieved mainly from the approaches of structural bioinformatics, pharmacophore modeling, molec...

Establishing health insurance exchanges: three states' progress.

California, Colorado, and Maryland were among the first states to enact legislation establishing health insurance exchanges called for in the Affordable Care Act. This brief outlines differences that stand out in the states' initial approaches: the numbers and types of people initially appointed to the boards governing the exchanges; the role of the board relative to the state legislature; how ...

Progress Report

The goals for the first quarter in the timeline defined in the proposal were to run experiments on ESnet and ANI testbed to capture control-connection packets for file transfer applications, and to design new online flow detection algorithms. Both these activities were planned for the first proposed work item, which is to design new online flow detection algorithms because the Hybrid Network Tr...

Progress Report

Sand fields develop different patterns, such as sandbars, sand ridges, sand ripples, sand dunes, and river dunes. These vary in shape from crescent to ridge-like patterns. They are formed in areas such as deserts, lakes and seashores, where winds or fluid flows are strong and tend to blow from one direction or oscillate. There is a great deal of order in these patterns: perhaps a simple model c...

Progress report.