Many studies find that consumers reduce spending in response to higher health insurance cost-sharing, but there is mixed evidence as to whether these spending reductions reflect a rational trade-off between health benefits and costs. This paper provides new evidence on the rationality of consumer responses to cost-sharing using novel variation in two common types of cost-sharing incentives: ded...

SARAH J. CADDICK, CHUNSHENG WANG, COLIN F. FLETCHER, NANCY A. JENKINS, NEAL G. COPELAND, AND DAVID A. HOSFORD Department of Neurology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23298; Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology and Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center and Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27705; and Mammalian Genetics L...

We present a construction of nested spaces of C2 macro-elements of degree 5 on triangulations of a polygonal domain obtained by uniform refinements of an initial triangulation and a Powell-Sabin-12 split.

In this paper the optimal control of boundary heat flux in a 2-D solid body with an arbitrary shape is performed in order to achieve the desired temperature distribution at a given time interval. The boundary of the body is subdivided into a number of components. On each component a time-dependent heat flux is applied which is independent of the others. Since the thermophysical properties are t...

Powell-Sabin splines are piecewise quadratic polynomials with global C-continuity. They are defined on conformal triangulations of two-dimensional domains, and admit a compact representation in a normalized B-spline basis. Recently, these splines have been used successfully in the area of computer-aided geometric design for the modelling and fitting of surfaces. In this paper, we discuss the ap...