IN THE fiscal year 1960-61, Federal grants-in-aid were available for five public assistance programs. Grants were first authorized for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the blind in 1935 and for aid to the permanently and tot,ally disabled in 1950. Medical assistance for the aged, the fifth of the grant programs, was established by the Social Security Amendments of 1960;...

CHEM2D-OPP: A new linearized gas-phase ozone photochemistry parameterization for high-altitude NWP and climate models J. P. McCormack, S. D. Eckermann, D. E. Siskind, and T. J. McGee E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington DC, USA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Received: 6 June 2006 – Accepted: 8 June 2006 – Publish...

BACKGROUND Bundled payments, also known as episode-based payments, are intended to contain health care costs and promote quality. In 2011 a bundled payment pilot program for total hip replacement was implemented by an integrated health care delivery system in conjunction with a commercial health plan subsidiary. In July 2015 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed the Compre...

Social Security is the largest federal government spending program and one of the most popular.1 The earmarked payroll taxes that finance Social Security currently exceed benefit payments. By the end of 1996, the Social Security trust fund had accumulated about $566 billion in assets and was expected to grow to over $1.2 trillion by 2010. However, longer-term projections suggest that Social Sec...

Postoperative visual loss (POVL) is a rare but catastrophic complication after nonocular surgery. Previously POVL has been reported in lengthy, prone, lateral, or cardiopulmonary cases, with extreme blood loss, hemodilution, and hypotension. The author's index case of POVL following a lengthy operation in steep Trendelenburg position (ST) prompted study of the relationship between intraocular p...

Critical size defects in ovine tibiae, stabilised with intramedullary interlocking nails, were used to assess whether the addition of carboxymethylcellulose to the standard osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1/BMP-7) implant would affect the implant's efficacy for bone regeneration. The biomaterial carriers were a 'putty' carrier of carboxymethylcellulose and bovine-derived type-I collagen (OPP) or the s...

PURPOSE To determine the diurnal and nocturnal effects of travoprost with sofZia(®) (Travatan Z(®) [TZ]) on intraocular pressure (IOP) and ocular perfusion pressure (OPP) in patients with normal-tension glaucoma (NTG). METHODS Twenty-seven subjects with NTG were admitted to an inpatient sleep laboratory for three 24-hour sessions monitoring IOP, blood pressure (BP), and heart rate every 2 hou...

We analyzed expression of a putative oligopeptide permease (Opp) of Borrelia burgdorferi. Unlike the opp operons of other bacteria for which there is a single substrate binding protein, B. burgdorferi codes for three substrate binding proteins (OppA-I to -III) in its opp operon and an additional two homologs on plasmids (OppA-IV and -V). Instead of a single promoter region regulating transcript...

A study based on program records showd that about 200,000 persons receiving supplemental security income (SSI) payments in December 1976 were living with a spouse who was not eligible for payments. In most cases, the beneficiaries were disabled and the spouses were too young to be eligible. Some spouses were receiving help indirectly from the program through the essential-person increment, Stat...

In December 1979, the number of persons receiving State supplementary payments under the Supplemental Security Income Program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled totaled 1,942,000. By December 1981, the number totaled 1,875,000--a decline of 67,000 or 3 percent. This decrease paralleled the reduction in the number of persons receiving Federal Supplemental Security Income payments, which dropped f...