No one's sure what health reform will bring. But the time for providers to get agile is now" (Deloitte 2010). As an active participant in the national healthcare reform debate for the past several years, I have been troubled by the continued lack of a meaningful dialogue about healthcare in this country. A great deal has been written about the challenges presented by the sweeping healthcare ref...

The general review of cross section formulas for the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, pair and triplet production is presented in the intermediate and high photon energy spectrum for carbon (Z=6). Using the classical Gaussian regressionmethod, the empirical correction functions for the theoretical cross section formulas are calculated based on the existing experimental data. The simp...

The immunogenicity of a number of avirulent rough Salmonella dublin mutants was compared in mice and guinea-pigs. Live vaccine prepared from Strain HB 1/17 at doses of 5 X 10(7) per mouse usually gave an immunity of between 70 and 80% but in certain experiments the results were more variable and always poorer. This strain gave a cross protection of 28,5% to S. typhimurium in mice. In guinea-pig...

Nowadays the competition among companies, joined to the environmental protection rules, is so compelling that they should not only be on the top of technology in they area, but also run their business according to life-long models. The emphasis on the product post-sale life is common for these models. The most popular model is Product Lifecycle Management, for manufacturing companies, or Servic...

This paper considers the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) on firms’ information environments and costs of capital. For NYSE/Amex firms we find little evidence of a change in the cost of capital attributable to Regulation FD. For Nasdaq firms we find that Regulation FD increased firms’ costs of capital by 10–19 basis points per annum though the statistical significance of this change is...

When Higher Education (HE) institutions decide to offer learning material for the public, they share them on dedicated platforms, e.g. MOOC portals, or they set up their own platform. Building and maintaining a different platform for on-site and off-site students is cost-intensive. In this paper a research-in-progress is presented, which follows a modular approach to identify different needs fo...

In this article, we develop Markov random field models for multivariate lattice data. Specific attention is given to building models that incorporate general forms of the spatial correlations and cross-correlations between variables at different sites. The methodology is applied to the problem of environmental equity. Using a Bayesian hierarchical model that is multivariate in form, we examine ...

The efficacy of hops beta acids (HBA) against unstressed and stress-adapted Listeria monocytogenes in ham extract and the consumers' acceptability of HBA on ready-to-eat (RTE) hams were investigated. Unstressed or acid-, cold-, or starvation-stress-adapted L. monocytogenes was inoculated (1.3-1.5 log CFU/mL) into 10% ham extract, without (control) or with HBA (4.44 or 10.0 µg/mL). Survival/grow...

The efficacy and immunogenicity of HPV vaccines has proven excellent in several phase 2 and phase 3 trials involving tens of thousand women. A decrease in antibody titres was observed in follow-up studies of vaccinees, with initial sharp decline reaching a plateau in the longer term. Only few subjects lost their antibodies during the 5-6 years after vaccination. However, no breakthrough disease...

Stress responses are of particular importance to microorganisms, because their habitats are subjected to continual changes in temperature, osmotic pressure, and nutrients availability. Stressors (and stress factors), may be of chemical, physical, or biological nature. While stress to microorganisms is frequently caused by the surrounding environment, the growth of microbial cells on its own may...