We compared the Du Pont aca (phosphotungstate-enzymic cholesterol) and the Dow (dextran sulfate/Mg2+-enzymic cholesterol) methods for the determination of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) and total cholesterol in serum from 113 patients. The aca results for both total cholesterol and HDLC were significantly greater (p less than 0.0001) than the Dow results, the aca method overestimat...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains substantial new requirements aimed at increasing rates of health insurance coverage. Because many of these provisions impose additional costs on the states, officials need reliable estimates of the likely impact of the ACA in their state. To demonstrate the usefulness of modeling for state-level decisionmaking, RAND undertook a preli...

By enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), Congress provoked change in the status quo in American health care delivery and payment. Although challenged by conservative voices resistant to change, the ACA survived its recent constitutional challenge. Regardless of how Congress tries to amend the ACA in the future, one vestige of the ACA likely to remain at least in...

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care incorporates many public health concepts. Some supporters of PCMH regard the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as legislation that will invigorate PCMH progress across the country. This policy analysis intends to understand the influence of the ACA on the development of PCMH. The policy analysis compares relevant sections of the ACA with core PCMH ...

Background. Public opinion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been divided. Polling of physicians and the general public about knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs towards the ACA has been conducted, but to date, no such studies have targeted HIV-infected patients. We report results of such a survey. Methods. Sequential adult HIV-infected patients attending the University ...

More than 100 mammalian H/ACA RNAs form an equal number of ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) by associating with the same four core proteins. The function of these H/ACA RNPs is essential for biogenesis of the ribosome, splicing of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs), maintenance of telomeres and probably for additional cellular processes. Recent crystal structures of archaeal H/ACA protein complexes show how ...

This paper reports the complete characterization of additive cellular automata (ACA) that employ xor and xnor logic as the next state function. Compared to linear cellular automata (LCA) [3], which employs only xor logic in its next state function, an ACA display much wider varieties of state transition behavior and enhanced computing power. An analytical framework is developed to characterize ...

BACKGROUND Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is intended to provide a framework for increasing health care access for vulnerable populations, including the 1.2 million who experience homelessness each year in the United States. OBJECTIVE We sought to characterize homeless persons' knowledge of the ACA, identify barriers to their ACA enrollment, and determine access to var...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been associated with de novo or recurrent membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and acute transplant glomerulopathy in transplanted kidneys. Recently, anticardiolipin antibodies (ACA) have been linked with chronic HCV infection. A few reports have suggested an association between ACA and renal allograft thrombosis. This study examines the clinical and pa...