Perceptions of whether health care cost growth is affordable contribute greatly to pressures for health system reform. In this paper we develop a framework for thinking about affordability, concluding that a one-percentage-point gap between real per capita growth in health care costs and growth in GDP would be affordable through 2075. A two-percentage-point gap would only be affordable through ...

Context: Reusing software by means of copy and paste is a frequent activity in software development. The duplicated code is known as a software clone and the activity is known as code cloning. Software clones may lead to bug propagation and serious maintenance problems. Objective: This study reports an extensive systematic literature review of software clones in general and software clone detec...

It is now nearly three years since our last newsletter. During that time we have continued to collect more samples from volunteers and enlarged our collection of photos for the face genetics project to nearly 2000. Most importantly, a subset of 2039 of our samples has been extensively analysed, and, after several revisions and adjustments, the results have appeared on 19 March as a major paper ...

Mining activities and associated actions cause land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes across the world. The objective of this study were to evaluate historical impacts mining on surface biophysical characteristics, for first time, predict future in pattern vegetation cover land temperature (LST). In terms utilized data, satellite images Landsat, meteorological data Sungun mine Iran, Athabasca oil s...

در این مقاله ، ما قصد داریم به مطالعۀ جنبه های رمانتیسم از ورای رمان اعترافات فرزند قرن نوشتۀ آلفرد دو موسه بپردازیم. این رمان به تحلیل موشکافانۀ درون مایه های رمانهای عاشقانه می پردازد و سعی در بازتاب تأثیر مکتب رمانتیسم بر نسل قرن نوزدهم دارد. این رمان در حقیقت نسخه ای از ماجراهای شکستِ عاشقانۀ نویسنده محسوب می شود که در شهر ونیز روی می دهد و تبدیل به نماد ادبی «عشقِ ناموفق» می شود. آلفرد دو مو...

a Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, MS 2117, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA b Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, 370 Olsen Boulevard, College Station, TX 77843-2474, USA c Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida Gainesville, 2169 McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-0290, USA d Department of Crop and Soil Science...