OBJECTIVES Examine how differences in state regulatory environments predict geographic disparities in the utilization of cancer screening. DATA SOURCES/SETTING 100% Medicare fee-for-service population data from 2001-2005 was developed as multi-year breast (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening utilization rates in each county in the US. STUDY DESIGN A comprehensive set of supply and dem...

There exist different types of concentration and evenness measures. What they have in common is the fact that they all try to measure inequality. We will discuss only concentration measures that describe the scatter of items over sources, and this irrespective of the number of sources considered. Concentration measures can, e.g., be used as indicators for the convergence, or divergence of regio...

Due to the CPU limitation of the computer hardware currently available, the threedimensional full-scaled finite element model of wafer level packaging is impractical for the reliability analysis and fatigue life prediction. In order to significantly reduce the simulation CPU time, an equivalent beam method based on the micro-macro technique with multi-point constraint method is proposed in the ...

Focal brain injury can have detrimental effects on the pragmatics of communication. This study examined narrative production by unilateral brain damaged people (n=36) and healthy controls and focused on the complexity (content and coherence) and the evaluative aspect of their narratives to test the general hypothesis that the left hemisphere is biased to process microlinguistic information and ...

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The concept of emergence is central to artificial life and complexity science, yet quantitative, intuitive, and easy-to-apply measures of emergence are surprisingly lacking. Here, I introduce a just such a measure, G-emergence, which operationalizes the notion that an emergent process is both dependent upon and autonomous from its underlying causal factors. G-emergence is based on a nonlinear t...

Classification of fiber tracts is an important problem in brain tractography.We propose a supervised algorithm which learns features for anatomically meaningful fiber clusters, from labeled DTI white matter data. The classification is performed at two levels: a) Grey vs White matter (macro level) and b) White matter clusters (micro level). Our approach focuses on high curvature points in the fi...

A popular perception is that immigration causes higher crime rates. Yet, historical and contemporary research finds that at the individual level, immigrants are not more inclined to commit crime than the native born. Knowledge of the macro-level relationship between immigration and crime, however, is characterized by important gaps. Most notably, despite the fact that immigration is a macro-lev...

Macro-aspartate transaminase (macro-AST) must be considered when the aspartate transaminase (AST) level is chronically high without any liver, cardiac, or muscle disease. Many specialized laboratory techniques have been recommended for diagnosing macro-AST, including the polyethylene glycol immune precipitate technique, which is simple. This study presents a considerably easier method based on ...