1 Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Public Law 111–52, 124 Stat. 1029 (2010); Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111–48, 124 Stat. 119 (2010). 2 As used in this document, ‘‘ACO’’ refers to Accountable Care Organizations under the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which also may operate in commercial markets. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 3022,...

Deregulation ha~ opened up many opportunities and challenges in the transportation industry opportunities to increase profits and challenges to keep from being outflanked by competition. A goal of particular interest to the scheduled airlines is to set prices more adaptively and to ~hange them more rapidly. A difficult problem arises when many passengers with different itineraries compete for a...

The way ahead is shown by the last essay in the book, Karl Figlio's meaty piece of social history, 'How does illness mediate social relations? Workmen's compensation and medico-legal practice, 1890-1940'. The title is spot-on, and highlights the paper's concerns and approaches. Taking the eye malfunction, nystagmus, Figlio shows that late nineteenth-century medical interest in its exact specifi...

A highly plausible etiology for Gulf War Illness (GWI) is that the neural damage and cognitive deficits are associated with excessive exposure to cholinesterase-inhibiting cholinergic stimulants. Our previous SPECT study provided strong indication that cerebral blood flow (CBF) in veterans with GWI may be different from those of unaffected control veterans. The present study confirmed and exten...

One of the most important variable to achieve a sustainable and desirable city is the increasing of general or public information of citizens about civil rights and city regulations or municipal laws. Thus, this paper evaluates general and public information about civil rights and municipal laws to increase the effectiveness of future actions. The recent survey was done among people aged 20 to...

Research findings: ‘Civil’ organisations vary in their ties to ‘non-civil’ organisations with fundamental consequences: organisations with ties to the principle actors of representative democracy are the most likely to participate in formal or quasi-formal processes of public policy. The findings suggest that the dominant perspective on civil society and participation in international developme...

nal intervention are most effective, remain open questions. Overall, these volumes are a valuable resource for all researchers interested in studying civil wars. REFERENCES Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 1998. “On Economic Causes of Civil War.” Oxford Economic Papers, 50(4): 563–73. Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 2004. “Greed and Grievance in Civil War.” Oxford Economic Papers, 56(4): 563–9...

j1 Francisco Calvo PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j2 Juan de Oña PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j3 Griselda López BEng Researcher, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, Universit...

ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...