Under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority to waive many provisions in the Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) statutes. Section 1115 demonstrations have long been an important vehicle for states to not only expand health insurance coverage, but also provide a launching pad for changes to their underlyin...

background & aim: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) impose a heavy burden on health care system. awareness on prevalence and incidence of sci is important because this would show the necessity of prevention. this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology and types of traumatic spinal cord injuries in a trauma referral center in guilan. methods & materials/patients: this is a descriptive ...

needed in the SCI database. Third, international diversity must be fulfilled. This means that authors, editors, and editorial advisory board members are from around the world. Fourth, citations to the journal itself (impact factor) and citations to the contributing authors, editorial board members of KJFM must be more than some point. It is a very challenging task for KJFM to be listed in the S...

We present a powerful diagnosis tool for the IEEE Std.1596 Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI): the SCI Tracer. The purpose of the SCI Tracer is to acquire data and analyze the activities on SCI links. The SCI Tracer consists of a hardware module and a software environment. The hardware is implemented in a multi-board module matching the Double Europe VME standard. It evaluates the flag bit in SC...

Accumulated evidence from our laboratory indicates that conditioned or anergized NK cells have the ability to induce resistance of healthy stem cells and transformed cancer stem cells through both secreted factors and direct cell-cell contact by inducing differentiation. Cytotoxic function of NK cells is suppressed in the tumor microenvironment by a number of distinct effectors and their secret...

The extremely low latencies and high bandwidth results achievable with the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) at lowest level encourages its integration into existing Message Passing Environments (MPE's). In combination with Network of Workstations, it can be seen as an alternative for traditional parallel computing with tightly coupled processors with comparable performance at low cost. This pa...

† This work was supported in part by NSF Grants CCR-9207971 and CCR-9509589, funding from the Apple Computer Advanced Technology Group, and donations from Thinking Machines Corporation. Our T.M.C. CM-5 was purchased through NSF Grant CDA-9024618, with matching funding from the University of Wisconsin Graduate School. ‡ Editor, IEEE P1596.2 proposed Standard. The views expressed in this paper ar...

The SCI standard describes the interconnection of computing nodes by a ring structure. Although the SCIringlet has the bene t of facilitating small con gurations without requiring switches, there are weaknesses with respect to scalability and fault tolerance. We propose to use a wormhole routed switching fabric, such as the Rcube, as a building block for constructing scalable and fault tolerant...

The potential feasibility of layered double hydroxides for removal of sunset yellow dye FCF from aqueous solution was investigated. The effects of various experimental parameters such as contact time, solution pH, dye concentrations and adsorbent dosage were investigated. The extent of sunset yellow FCF dye removal increased with the increased in contact time and amount of layered double hydrox...