M. Susan Marquis and Stephen H. Long are senior economists at RAND, Washington, DC. The authors would like to thank the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services for providing data, Ellen Harrison for expertly constructing the analysis files and Nancy Allen for assistance with Medicaid data. The authors are also grateful to project of...

Detailed here is a method and results from measurements of the beam characteristics of the ATCA antennas. We have used a celestial radio source, in the observing bands of the receivers, in preference to a satellite beacon signal. Scans over the source were made to derive the beam patterns, and these were Hankel transformed to derive the amplitude of the radial aperture illumination. The advanta...

Ethanol extracts of two indigenous Nigerian plants Hibiscus sabdariffa and Azadirachta indica extracted using the soxhlet extraction method, were used to stain malaria parasites. The extracts were made with different percentages of ethanol (96%, 75%, 50% and 30%) and diluted to various concentrations. There was no previous record known on the use of H. saddariffa & A indica in staining intestin...

Food additives have been used throughout history to perform specific functions in foods. A comprehensive framework of legislation is in place within Europe to control the use of additives in the food supply and ensure they pose no risk to human health. Further to this, exposure assessments are regularly carried out to monitor population intakes and verify that intakes are not above acceptable l...

1 Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Centre, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute and Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madin...

COPD is a chronic multisystem disorder with various co morbidities. Smoking is a major risk factor. It’s etiology and multisystem effects may contribute to depression and anxiety. Interplay of various factors along with gender, socioeconomic, educational and marital status also do contribute to depression and anxiety in COPD. Unfortunately, Evaluation of anxiety and depression are often neglect...