1,121 research outputs found
Health Insurance Exchanges: How Economic and Financial Modeling Can Support State Implementation
Outlines considerations for modeling the impact of state health insurance exchanges on states, including size and number of exchanges; demographics, health status, and health costs of the newly covered; and extent of collaboration with other states
Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson. Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from "Oroonoko" to Anita Hill.
WHEN ACTUALLY READING THE LETTER OF THE LAW DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD: U.S. v. ALEYNIKOV, TRADING ALGORITHMS, AND STATUTORY GAPS
WHEN ACTUALLY READING THE LETTER OF THE LAW DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD: U.S. v. ALEYNIKOV, TRADING ALGORITHMS, AND STATUTORY GAP
Analysis of HHS Final Rules on Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment
Summarizes final rules for states and health insurance plans for minimizing adverse selection under federal healthcare reform and highlights changes from proposed rules. Outlines implications for states and plans, as well as outstanding issues
Comparative Functional Analysis of Air Force and Commercially Available Transportation Information Management Systems
The Air Force currently relies on two transportation information management systems for managing cargo and passenger movements throughout the Defense Transportation System. The two systems are Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES) and Cargo Movement Operations System (CMOS). Although GATES and CMOS have evolved from legacy systems created during the 1980s, both systems are used to process cargo and passengers while providing the information needed to maintain in-transit visibility (ITV) and manage each movement. The purpose of this research is to identify commercially available logistics software packages and determine whether they provide the same functionality as the two Air Force information systems currently employed. Using a case study methodology, the researcher collected information on logistics software provided by SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. A gap analysis was then conducted to identify the percentage of similarity between the Air Force and commercial systems. The results of the research show SAP having the highest percentage of similarity with each of the Air Force systems followed by Oracle and then PeopleSoft
Depot Harbour: the Rise and Fall of an Ontario Grain Port
This thesis considers the creation, commercial success, decline, and abandonment of Depot Harbour, a major grain port in Ontario. I argue that the rapid, early success of the port beginning in 1898 was only possible with the confluence of economic globalization of grain markets, the expansion of the grain trade and transportation routes in Canada, and ownership invested in the port’s success. The transfer of ownership to a national railroad left Depot Harbour exposed to the negative ramifications of consolidation and nationalization of the railroad system of Canada, which led to its neglect and ultimate abandonment by 1945 despite the ongoing expansion of the grain trade. The development and operation of the port was an intrusion into the property and lives of the indigenous population of Parry Island and left a legacy that included property loss and changes in the economic base for that community
Estimating the relative rate of recombination to mutation in bacteria from single-locus variants using composite likelihood methods
A number of studies have suggested using comparisons between DNA sequences of
closely related bacterial isolates to estimate the relative rate of
recombination to mutation for that bacterial species. We consider such an
approach which uses single-locus variants: pairs of isolates whose DNA differ
at a single gene locus. One way of deriving point estimates for the relative
rate of recombination to mutation from such data is to use composite likelihood
methods. We extend recent work in this area so as to be able to construct
confidence intervals for our estimates, without needing to resort to
computationally-intensive bootstrap procedures, and to develop a test for
whether the relative rate varies across loci. Both our test and method for
constructing confidence intervals are obtained by modeling the dependence
structure in the data, and then applying asymptotic theory regarding the
distribution of estimators obtained using a composite likelihood. We applied
these methods to multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) data from eight bacteria,
finding strong evidence for considerable rate variation in three of these:
Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecium and Klebsiella pneumoniae.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS795 in the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Analysis of HHS Proposed Rules on Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment
Offers questions and answers about rules for lessening the financial risk of health insurance issuers and exchanges under healthcare reform. Outlines steps for states and health plans, outstanding issues, and operational impact on states
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