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Cost of hospital-associated infections in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health appointed an Expert Panel to assess the problem of health care-associated infections (HAI) in the state and make recommendations regarding mandatory reporting. At the Expert Panel's request, a cost-of-illness study was conducted using available data sources. In Massachusetts, the excess hospital costs attributed to HAIs were estimated at approximate...

Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment

We study the effect of staggered boards on long-run firm value, using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a staggered board on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find a significant and positive average increase in Tobin’s Q among the Massachusetts treated firms, suggesting that staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information as...

new semigroup compactifications via the enveloping semigroups of associated flows

this thesis deals with the construction of some function algebras whose corresponding semigroup compactification are universal with respect to some properies of their enveloping semigroups. the special properties are of beigan a left zero, a left simple, a group, an inflation of the right zero, and an inflation of the rectangular band.

Boards Relation Boards Object Boards Planning Boards Sensor Board Actuator Board User Demo Trace Object Agent Classification & Formation of Generic Objects Sensor Agent Preprocessing Extraction of Primitives Experiment

This paper presents an overview on the advantages an integrated symbolic connectionist approach can ooer for robot programming and control. It describes the functional dependency of symbolic and con-nectionist modules being parts of an hierarchical robot control system as well as their descriptive and methodological integration. Moreover, it is shown how both symbolic and connectionist learning...

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