OBJECTIVE The atypical antipsychotics, risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine, have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of mania associated with bipolar disorder. Information on the relative mental health resource use of these therapies is helpful to pharmacy managers since differences in efficacy and safety may translate into differences in mental health care ...

While Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland have abandoned charges for prescriptions, in April the English saw prescription charges rise once again, to £8.05 (€10; $13.5) per prescribed item. Labour peer David Lipsey has suggested that the charges are, “a dog’s dinner lacking any basis in fairness or logic and stuffed with anomalies and inconsistencies.” But apart from unfairness, illogicality,...

When nonprofit organizations operate in a field of service that might otherwise be provided by government or by for-profit organizations, such as schools, hospitals, or museums, their decisions on the type and amount of services to be delivered are motivated by factors that are quite distinctive. Because they must operate on a break-even basis with revenues raised on a voluntary basis, nonprofi...

VoIP (Voice over IP) services are gaining more popularity recently. This work considers providing VoIP services in an Internet-enabled mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Since MANET does not have a fixed connection to the Internet, we propose to attach one or multiple cellular interfaces to the gateway of the MANET to establish the connection so that users can enjoy mobile VoIP services. Connecting...

Although regional variations in Medicare spending are known, it is not clear whether regional variations exist in hospital charges for total joint arthroplasty. Data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Diagnosis Related Groups 469 and 470 (Major Joint with and without Major Complicating or Comorbid Condition) from 2011 were analyzed for variation by region. Drastic variatio...

Markup pricing contracts have been widely employed in many industries. Under such contracts, a retailer charges a retail margin over the wholesale price levied by the supplier to guarantee her financial prudence. In a setting where two competitive manufacturers sell substitutable products through a common dominant retailer, we investigate and compare performance of two different markup arrangem...

This paper examines earnings differentials between the private, nonprofit and for-profit sectors, with particular reference to lawyers. An earnings equation is estimated for private laywers, and the characteristics of nonprofit sector, "public interest" lawyers are substituted into that equation to predict what the public interest lawyer could earn in the private sector. The finding is that the...

THE STATISTICAL system of the Social Security Administration records the use of and the charges for covered hospital nnd medical services under health insurance for the aged (Medicare). The system’s operation depends on the receipt of hospital and medical bills sent to and paid by intermediaries and carriers throughout, the coulltry. Substantial delays in the statistical reporting of current in...

A model of the solid state of formamide is constructed by optimizing a central molecule in an elect rostat ic field of the proper symmetry. Attent ion is paid to the way the electrostat ic charges are obtained. Point charges obtained from a Mulliken population analysis yield a final set of atomic charges in the central molecule that agree reasonably well with those obtained experimentally af te...

Various aspects of the C-metric representing two rotating charged black holes accelerated in opposite directions are summarized and its limits are considered. A particular attention is paid to the special-relativistic limit in which the electromagnetic field becomes the “magic field” of two oppositely accelerated rotating charged relativistic discs. When the acceleration vanishes the usual elec...