BACKGROUND Although it has been established that minority physicians tend to see more minority and more poor or uninsured patients, pediatrics as a specialty has not been studied in this regard. OBJECTIVE To determine if minority pediatricians disproportionately provide care to minority children and to poor and uninsured children, relative to nonminority pediatricians, while controlling for p...

Conformant planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions that is guaranteed to achieve the goal for any possible initial state and nondeterministic behavior of the planning domain. In this paper we present a new algorithm for conformant planning, returning conformant plans of minimal length if the problem admits a solution, otherwise returning with failure. This work extends previous...

The role of systematic errors induced by thermal fluctuations is analyzed for the SPOrt experiment with the aim at estimating their impact on the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP). The transfer functions of the antenna devices from temperature to data fluctuations are computed, by writing them in terms of both instrument and thermal environment parameters. In ad...

Planning in nondeterministic domains has gained more and more importance. Conformant planning is the problem of finding a sequential plan that guarantees the achievement of a goal regardless of the initial uncertainty and of nondeterministic action effects. In this paper, we present a new and efficient approach to conformant planning. The search paradigm, called heuristic-symbolic search, relie...

We are the first to empirically analyze whether "Guidance on Accessing Capital for Minority, Underserved, Veteran and Women-Owned Business Concerns" (Guidance) program was successful. The implemented promote Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans provided by Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) in second round compared of PPP. Using both loan-level data from Small Administration (SBA) balan...

A 13 kV class n-channel 4H–SiC trench gate insulated bipolar transistor (IGBT) structure is designed based on Silvaco TCAD device simulator tool. The influence of metal/SiC and SiC MOS interface trap states the static dynamic characteristics IGBT devices are systematically studied. It found that electrical properties IGBTs insensitive to donor or acceptor traps at SiC/SiO2 interface. However, a...