The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-35), enacted on August 13, 1981, contained a provision to eliminate the minimum-benefit provision under the Social Security program for both current and future beneficiaries. Although a large majority of the members of both Houses of Congress accepted the measure in the broad context of the Reconciliation Act, there was considerable r...

RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ■ How is net benefit for above models correlated with user satisfaction? Does higher net benefit always yield a satisfied user. ● While query cost-benefit models are strongly correlated with user satisfaction, search cost-benefit models have weaker correlation. ■ How do the coefficients in above models vary for search sessions on mobile? At present, coeffici...

From one election to another, crime remains one of the biggest social and political issues, and it is a favourite subject of campaign promises by politicians. Crime imposes large costs onto society which are not taken into account by official measures of well-being and happiness of the nations. In addition, crime responds to economic conditions and incentives, which is well accepted among econo...

A bill presented by the Swedish Government in 2001 stated that higher education should aim for a broader recruitment of students. The use of ICT-tools is pointed out as a way of reaching new student groups, e.g. students who are immobile due to their social situation or physical handicap. At the same time, a number of regions in Sweden struggle with negative net migration that is to a large ext...

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Background—Known risk factors for bleeding during anticoagulant treatment are largely the same as those predicting thromboembolic events in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Our objective was to investigate how to maximize the likelihood of avoiding both stroke and bleeding. Methods and Results—All 182 678 subjects with atrial fibrillation in the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register were s...