Mr. Donohue discusses the history of nonprofit hospital conversions in the United States and analyzes the National Association of Attorneys General's Model Conversion Act. In addition, this article surveys conversion-related legislation of 17 states plus the District of Columbia. Finally, Mr. Donohue recommends the implementation of adequate safeguards to insure that nonprofit hospital assets a...

Understanding the role of communication in networked control systems has become an important topic of study. In this paper we examine conditions on a communication network that insure observability and stabilizability of a control system. We examine both wired networks and wireless networks. For the wired network we give general necessary and sufficient conditions on the link capacities to insu...

We present algorithms to self-heal reconfigurable networks when they are under attack. These algorithms reconfigure the network during attack to protect two critical invariants. First, they insure that the network remains connected. Second, they insure that no node increases its degree by more than O(log n). We show both theoretically and empirically that our algorithms can successfully maintai...

The penetration of renewable resources in distribution networks have led to the creation a concept called microgrids. Microgrids act as bus with ability control amount consumption and generation, from viewpoint system operator. If capacity that can be provided by microgrids is known, they effective providing resource adequacy required network. This paper contains two contributions. Modelling va...

Vol. XLVI (October 2009), 573–583 573 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Robert J. Kwortnik Jr. is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and W. Michael Lynn is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. William T. Ross Jr. is Smeal Research Fellow in Marketing ...

Families in developing countries face enormous financial risks from major illness both in terms of the cost of medical care and the loss in income associated with reduced labor supply and productivity. We test whether access to microfinancial savings and lending institutions helps Indonesian families smooth consumption after declines in adult health. In general, results support the importance o...

There has been very little research to test whether ambiguity affects individuals’decisions to insure themselves against the catastrophic effects of climate change. This paper attempts to study how individuals respond to the availability of an insurance that would give them immunity to a climate change catastrophe. Moreover, if such an insurance is available to them, do they insure themselves s...

BACKGROUND The primary aim of this randomized study was to describe the feasibility of early administration of surfactant via a thin catheter during spontaneous breathing (Take Care) and compare early mechanical ventilation (MV) requirement with the InSurE (Intubate, Surfactant, Extubate) procedure. METHODS Preterm infants, who were <32 weeks and stabilized with nasal continuous positive airw...