The Medicare program is the nation's largest single source of funds for graduate medical education. The program pays teaching hospitals for the direct costs of their residency programs and, since 1983, has paid for some of the indirect costs of graduate medical education. The rationale for, and extent of, the payments for indirect costs have been debated for years; recently, Congress has reduce...

It is well established that plant phenolics elicit various biological activities, with positive effects on health. Palm oil production results in large volumes of aqueous by-products containing phenolics. In the present study, we describe the effects of oil palm phenolics (OPP) on several degenerative conditions using various animal models. OPP reduced blood pressure in a NO-deficient rat model...

The control of inverters has degrees freedom that open the way to improve output harmonic spectrum. Numerous works dealing with this objective have been proposed in literature, particularly within definition switching angles. Among them, well-known PWM techniques such as Quarter Wave Symmetry (QWS), Half (HWS), and Full (FWS) are based on Optimal Pulse Patterns (OPP) computation using symmetrie...

Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA program. The PSA program has worked hard to develop mechanisms to charge the users of environmental services for the services they receive. It has made substantial progress in charging water users, and more limited pro...

The aim of the study was to establish a parametric transfer function to describe the relationship between ocular perfusion pressure (OPP) and blood flow (BF) in the optic nerve head (ONH). A third-order parametric theoretical model was proposed to describe the ONH OPP-BF relationship within the lower OPP range of the autoregulation curve (< 80 mmHg) based on experimentally induced BF response t...

Ocular Perfusion Pressure: New Evidence  Ocular Perfusion Pressure and Glaucoma Progression  Definition and Calculation  Lower IOP improves OPP  Remains number 1 goal !!  Measure blood pressure on your patients  Higher systemic BP improves OPP, but you do not necessarily want to raise BP:  Nocturnal Hypotension and OPP  Avoiding IOP meds that LOWER systemic BP at night (beta blockers, a...

Payments for ecosystem services offer the potential to financially benefit landowners in exchange for active forest management. Given their nontimber focus, such payments might be particularly attractive to those owners who do not participate in typical forestry programs. To investigate, we surveyed “nonparticipating” Wisconsin landowners to assess their interest in possible payments for ecosys...

This paper aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on how to bring programmability of stateful packet processing tasks inside the network switches, while retaining platform independency. Our proposed approach, named “Open Packet Processor” (OPP), shows the viability (via an hardware prototype relying on commodity HW technologies and operating in a strictly bounded number of clock cycles) of ...

BACKGROUND Water-soluble phenolics from the oil palm possess significant biological properties. PURPOSE In this study, we aimed to discover the role of oil palm phenolics (OPP) in influencing the gene expression changes caused by an atherogenic diet in mice. METHODS We fed mice with either a low-fat normal diet (14.6 % kcal/kcal fat) with distilled water, or a high-fat atherogenic diet (40....