This paper documents firm take-up rates and manipulation around the eligibility thresholds of a 30 percent temporary corporate income tax cut in Vietnam in 2009 and in 2011. The tax cut program was only available for firms with less than certain employment or asset cutoffs. I use regression discontinuity design and difference in differences approach to compare firms right below and above the cu...

Administrative costs account for 25 percent of health care spending, but little is known about the portion attributable to billing and insurance-related (BIR) functions. We estimated BIR for hospital and physician care in California. Data for physician practices came from a mail survey and interviews; for hospitals, from regulatory reporting; and for private insurers, from a consulting company....

this study was carried out to indicate the number of infected individuals with ear infection from different genders and ages determine antibiotic sociability for swab bacterial isolates. A total 82 swabs were obtained in Erbil City various hospitals labs. Males made up 48 (59%) 81 samples, while females 33 (41%). 0-10 years had most bacteria isolated swabs, followed by 11-20 then 21-40 years. P...

A TeV-range e(+)e(-) linear collider has emerged as one of the most promising candidates to extend the high energy frontier of experimental elementary particle physics. A high accelerating gradient for such a collider is desirable to limit its overall length. Accelerating gradient is mainly limited by electrical breakdown, and it has been generally assumed that this limit increases with increas...

Abstract Introduction Breast Ultrasonography (USS) is a major part of the triple assessment for breast presentations in those under 35 years. Currently, most institutions are running targeted separate U-35 clinics. The aim this study to audit outcome USS patients Method Over 5-month period, December 2021- May 2022, retrospective data was collected across 3 In total, 300 were analyzed. Results a...