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The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 PrescriPtion drugs play a central role in managing chronic illness and other health problems facing the elderly. until recently, however, Medicare provided no insurance for most outpatient prescription drugs. Many elderly Americans, facing large out-of-pocket drug costs, failed to obtain the medicines needed to treat m...

One potential cause for concern, and an inherent weakness with the naïve matching methodology described in the paper, is that the method considers only the year, industry, and funding reception on the part of the entrepreneur. To the extent that structural components of the VC syndicate (i.e., size and relative reputation), or observable characteristics of the entrepreneur, may correlate with t...

Oxygen, the most important cellular nutrition, is delivered through a pulsatile blood flow in vertebrates to the tissues and cells in vivo, wherein the oxygen concentration, its availability gradient between systolic and diastolic phase of cardiac activity differ between organs. In the in vitro conditions, manipulation of oxygen availability to the cells under culture have yielded varying behav...

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...

This work presents the antifriction and antiwear properties of TiO2 nanoparticles coated with oleic acid, TiO2-OA, as additives a low viscosity polyalphaolefin base oil, PAO8. To find optimal concentration nanoadditives that minimize friction wear, four PAO8 based nanodispersions were formulated: + 0.10 wt% 0.25 0.35 TiO2-OA 0.50 TiO2-OA. Tribological experiments performed under pure sliding ro...

The functionalized graphene/montmorillonite (FG/MTT) nanosheet was synthesized through chemical bonding by a simple, green method, which had remarkable dispersion stability in oil and its lubricating performance evaluated four-ball tribometer. test results showed that FG/MTT preeminent lubricant property when the concentration 0.4 mg/ml. Compared with bare sample, average friction coefficient (...

Large quantities of second-hand clothing have been exported from the Global North to South in recent decades, placing a heavy social and environmental burden on local communities. Consequently, countries are leveraging indigenous craftsmanship through various practices, such as care, repair, upcycling, enable durability extend product life, saving millions garments landfills. However, this know...

The dependency court and the child welfare agency are both responsible for protecting children and mending families. Yet, too often, the court and the agency work on their common goals independently of one another. This paper explores the ways in which juvenile and family courts and child welfare agencies across the country are sharing data and information, and collaborating with one another ou...

Moyzis AG, Sadoshima J, Gustafsson ÅB. Mending a broken heart: the role of mitophagy in cardioprotection. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 308: H183–H192, 2015. First published November 25, 2014; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00708.2014.—The heart is highly energy dependent with most of its energy provided by mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Mitochondria also play a role in many other essential c...