The key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. In increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. However, health care users refer to a wide ...

We introduce a q-analog of the multiple harmonic series commonly referred to as multiple zeta values. The multiple q-zeta values satisfy a q-stuffle multiplication rule analogous to the stuffle multiplication rule arising from the series representation of ordinary multiple zeta values. Additionally, multiple q-zeta values can be viewed as special values of the multiple q-polylogarithm, which ad...

In this autoethnography I share my lived experiences of merging motherhood and doctoral studies reveal the journey imperfectly weaving identities mother, wife, student, academic. present seven vignettes to provide glimpses experience a window into not only challenges tensions intersecting studies, but also joys, strengths, benefits embracing these multiple identities. The literature autoethnogr...

The transcription factors that bind the c-fos promoter element SRE are targeted by multiple, independent signalling cascades; the identities of these signalling pathways and their modes of activation are being elucidated.

Our principal interest in this paper is to study higher order degenerate Hermite-Bernoulli polynomials arising from multivariate $p$-adic invariant integrals on $mathbb{Z}_p$. We give interesting identities and properties of these polynomials that are derived using the generating functions and $p$-adic integral equations. Several familiar and new results are shown to follow as special cases. So...

we introduce a matricial toeplitz transform and prove that the toeplitz transform of a second order recurrence sequence is another second order recurrence sequence. we investigate the injectivity of this transform and show how this distinguishes the fibonacci sequence among other recurrence sequences. we then obtain new fibonacci identities as an application of our transform.

It is not uncommon for classroom teacher researchers to face multiple obstacles, but for the fifth grade teacher in this study, Donna, her administrators did not support her research efforts because they thought it would take away from preparing students for end of grade tests. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways conducting teacher research shaped Donna’s teacher identities and to...

We provide evaluations of several recently studied higher and multiple Mahler measures using log-sine integrals. This is complemented with an analysis of generating functions and identities for log-sine integrals which allows the evaluations to be expressed in terms of zeta values or more general polylogarithmic terms. The machinery developed is then applied to evaluation of further families of...

We derive factorization identities for a class of preemptive-resume queueing systems, with batch arrivals and catastrophes that, whenever they occur, eliminate multiple customers present in the system. These processes are quite general, as they can be used to approximate Lévy processes, diffusion processes, and certain types of growth-collapse processes; thus, all of the processes mentioned abo...

This article seeks to interrogate the construction of identities in Edgar Tekeres A Lifetime of Struggle for the purposes of establishing political legitimacy and heroism for himself.This article observers that the autobiographical narrator attempts to achieve this end through constructing heroic identities on a multiplicity of sites such as heredity, military,prisoner,welfare,masculine,intelle...