Prescribed minimum benefits or minimum prescribed benefits?

Prescribed minimum benefits--quagmire or foundation for social health reform?

Evaluation of prescriptive fitting.

The purpose of this study was to determine the minimum tolerance needed when choosing a manufacturer who custom-built analog circuitry for all-in-the-ear hearing aids to match a popular prescriptive amplification formula. Given the tolerance, a second purpose was to evaluate fitting success by calculating the differences in prescribed versus preferred gain and pre- versus postfitting perceived ...

Medical aid system: change way overdue.

The South African medical aid system has evolved in such a way (fragmented risk pools, legally beholden to prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), a free-for-all on provider tariffs), that there's little wonder it's adversarial and riven with antagonism, exploitation and mistrust.

Construction of Linear Codes Having Prescribed Primal-dual Minimum Distance with Applications in Cryptography

A method is given for the construction of linear codes with prescribed minimum distance and also prescribed minimum distance of the dual code. This works for codes over arbitrary finite fields. In the case of binary codes Matsumoto et al. showed how such codes can be used to construct cryptographic Boolean functions. This new method allows to compute new bounds on the size of such codes, extend...

Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology position stand: Benefit and risk for promoting childhood physical activity.

Current guidelines recommend children accumulate 60 min of daily physical activity; however, highly publicized sudden-death events among young athletes raise questions regarding activity safety. An expert group convened (June 2012) to consider the safety of promoting increased physical activity for children, and recommended the publication of an evidence-based statement of current knowledge reg...