Posterior predictive p-values do not in general have uniform distributions under the null hypothesis (except in the special case of ancillary test variables) but instead tend to have distributions more concentrated near 0.5. From different perspectives, such nonuniform distributions have been portrayed as desirable (as reflecting an ability of vague prior distributions to nonetheless yield accu...

First, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has amended its incident-to regulations to clarify that the physician or other practitioner who bills for incident-to services must be the same person who directly supervised the ancillary personnel who provided the services. The direct supervision requirement for incident-to services has not changed – the physician must be present in th...

Cost estimates are derived for services provided at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (previously known as the Kingstown General Hospital) using the step-down accounting method Both total and average unit cost estimates are provided Among the findings of note is that the cost per patient per day spent on the Maternity Ward is 57.4% higher than for the Surgical Ward. Even with the 1995 increase ...

nels in the future. Furthermore, teleservices process more Emerging telecommunication services use, store, or transmit sensitive personal data to form individual network services. We suggest an add-on approach to realize secure telecommunication services which saves the huge investments into existing network infrastructure of the ISDN. This is done by adding trusted runtime environments that co...

Producing IT products/services required carefully designed. IT development process is intangible and labour intensive. Making optimal use of available resources, both soft (knowledge, skill-set etc.) and hard (computer system, ancillary equipment etc.), is vital if IT development is to achieve sensible economical advantages. Apart from the norm of Project Life Cycle and System Development Life ...

The paper deals with energy storage systems applications in Smart Grids. Several services can be performed thanks to the energy storage systems use, with objectives aimed at meeting needs internal or external to the Smart Grid. Optimal nonlinear constrained problems can be formulated and properly solved in order to perform the services in the best economical and technical way. In this paper, op...

We examine the optimal concession contract for an infrastructure that generates both user fee revenue and ancillary commercial revenue. For example, airports charge user fees to passengers and airlines (aviation revenue) and collect revenue from shops, restaurants, parking lots and hotels (non-aviation revenue). While passenger flow and the demand for the infrastructure are exogenous, the deman...