OBJECTIVE To compare trends in readmission rates among safety net and non-safety net hospitals under the US Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP). DESIGN A retrospective time series analysis using Medicare administrative claims data from January 2008 to June 2015. SETTING We examined 3254 US hospitals eligible for penalties under the HRRP, categorised as safety net or non-safety net...

this study was conducted over a three-year period (1998, 1999 and 2000) to evaluate some drought tolerance indices and their relations with sugar yield in some sugar beet genotypes under early season drought and non-drought conditions. the experimental design was a split plot with a randomized complete block. the main plots consisted of two irrigation regimes: non-stress and water stress in ear...

abstract in order to evaluate crop water stress index (cwsi) and canopy temperature of wheat cultivars under terminal drought stress, a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station of shiraz university, shiraz, during 2009 growing season. five wheat cultivars including shiraz, bahar, pishtaz, sistan and yavaros and four levels of water regime including well watering [irr...

In this work, notifications to provide learners and mediators of an online course with awareness information regarding the unfolding of forums and other participants’ activities are investigated. In an asynchronous setting, participants need to check the forum frequently to know if there are new messages and whether and when mediators and learners are working. In the absence of this information...

The theory of Well Structured Transition Systems, (WSTS) allows the automatical verification of safety properties of infinite-state systems, such that parts of reachability sets can be finitely represented [7, 11, 10]. Termination, boundedness and coverability are decidable for WSTS [4, 5, 9]. As Petri nets are WSTS, the previous properties are decidable. For complete WSTS [10], the Karp and Mi...

A low complexity method for suppressing speckle in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is proposed. This method doesn’t require the logarithmic transform and is an extension of the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) filter to the image wavelet representation. A spatially adaptive shrinkage function is obtained and each modified coefficient is decided separately. Simulation results for t...

Glutamine is synthesized primarily in skeletal muscle, and enables transfer of nitrogen to the liver, as well as serving other functions. There is increasing evidence for beneficial clinical effects of glutamine supplementation in critically ill patients. However, the response of endogenous glutamine formation to severe stress is poorly understood. The rates of net protein balance, leucine oxid...

The study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in Abia State of Nigeria. The main objective was to determine the Net Farm Income (NFI) and the Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. A multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

Objective To compare trends in readmission rates among safety net and non-safety net hospitals under the US Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP). Design A retrospective time series analysis using Medicare administrative claims data from January 2008 to June 2015. Setting We examined 3254 US hospitals eligible for penalties under the HRRP, categorised as safety net or non-safety net hos...

Daily variations in net gas exchange, chlorophyll a fluorescence and water relations of mature, sun-acclimated grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macfady.) and orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) leaves were determined in tree canopies either shaded with 50% shade screens or left unshaded (sunlit). Mean daily maximum photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) under shade varied from 500 to 700 micromol ...