This article examines two simultaneous and contradictory aspects of socialist legality: its repression emancipation. The author investigates one particular institution legality—comrades’ courts in the workplace—in order to discover interweaving these functions Soviet justice. argues that flexibility legality is basic defining features, which could provide an emancipatory space struggle for righ...

M edicare reform is one of the top issues on the domestic policy agenda, and the role of private plans in that reform is one of its critical dimensions.The Medicare experience with private plans has been principally through the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program. M+C plans, primarily HMOs, receive capitated payments from Medicare and provide coverage for Medicare-covered services.To the extent that ...

The year 1998 has been a terrible one for large complex health enterprises. The year brought well-publicized crashes of former darlings of Wall Street-Columbia/HCA, MedPartners, PhyCor, and Oxford Health Plans. There were also less well publicized financial crises in the nonprofit world -Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the East Coast's most aggressive “system," Allegheny Health, Education and Researc...

In Iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during Pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. Historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in Iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. This es...

Panelists respond to the question, “What does industry need from simulation vendors in Y2k and after?” The panelists include software vendors, simulation modelers from industry, simulation consulting, and academia.

The initial stages of spinodal decomposition were studied by subjecting a critical blend of model polyolefins to a pressure quench and monitoring the evolution by time-resolved small angle neutron scattering. Contrary to the predictions of the widely accepted Cahn-Hilliard-Cook theory, we demonstrate that coarsening of the phase-separated structure begins immediately after the quench and occurs...