310 research outputs found
Impact of Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan Star Ratings on Enrollment Before and After Implementation of Quality-Related Bonus Payments in 2012
The five-star quality rating of Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans had no direct impact on same-year enrollment. But after the introduction of a bonus payment for highly-rated plans, which had to be invested in additional benefits and /or reducing premiums, subsequent year enrollment in these plans increased
Noncollinearity-modulated electronic properties of the monolayer CrI
Introducing noncollinear magnetization into a monolayer CrI is proposed
to be an effective approach to modulate the local electronic properties of the
two-dimensional (2D) magnetic material. Using first-principles calculation, we
illustrate that both the conduction and valence bands in the monolayer CrI
are lowered down by spin spiral states. The distinct electronic structure of
the monolayer noncollinear CrI can be applied in nanoscale functional
devices. As a proof of concept, we show that a magnetic domain wall can form a
one-dimensional conducting channel in the 2D semiconductor via proper gating.
Other possible applications such as electron-hole separation and identical
quantum dots are also discussed
Association of Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs With Prescription Abandonment and Delay in Fills of Novel Oral Anticancer Agents
High out-of-pocket (OOP) costs may limit access to novel oral cancer medications. In a retrospective study, nearly one third of patients whose OOP costs were 500 and nearly half of patients whose OOP costs were more than 10 at the time of purchase. Delays in picking up prescriptions were also more frequent among patients facing higher OOP costs
An empirical analysis of dockless bike-sharing utilization and its explanatory factors: Case study from Shanghai, China
Revealing dockless bike-sharing utilization pattern and its explanatory factors are essential for urban planners and operators to improve the utilization and turnover of public bikes. This study explores the dockless bike-sharing utilization pattern from the perspective of bike using GPS-based bike origin-destination data collected in Shanghai, China. In this paper, utilization patterns are captured by decoupling several spatially cohesive regions with intensive bike use via non-negative matrix factorization. We then measure the utilization efficiency of bikes within each sub-region by calculating Time to booking (ToB) for each bike and explore how the built environment and social-demographic characteristics influence the bike-sharing utilization with ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. The matrix factorization results indicate that the shared bikes mainly serve a certain area instead of the whole city. In addition, the GWR model shows higher explanatory power (Adjusted R2 = 0.774) than the OLS regression model (Adjusted R2 = 0.520), which suggests a close relationship between bike-sharing utilization and the selected explanatory variables. The coefficients of the GWR model reveal the spatial variations of the linkage between bike-sharing utilization and its explanatory factors across the study area. This study can shed light on understanding the demand and supply of shared bikes for rebalancing and provide support for operators to improve the dockless bike-sharing utilization efficiency
Semi-Supervised Video Salient Object Detection Using Pseudo-Labels
Deep learning-based video salient object detection has recently achieved
great success with its performance significantly outperforming any other
unsupervised methods. However, existing data-driven approaches heavily rely on
a large quantity of pixel-wise annotated video frames to deliver such promising
results. In this paper, we address the semi-supervised video salient object
detection task using pseudo-labels. Specifically, we present an effective video
saliency detector that consists of a spatial refinement network and a
spatiotemporal module. Based on the same refinement network and motion
information in terms of optical flow, we further propose a novel method for
generating pixel-level pseudo-labels from sparsely annotated frames. By
utilizing the generated pseudo-labels together with a part of manual
annotations, our video saliency detector learns spatial and temporal cues for
both contrast inference and coherence enhancement, thus producing accurate
saliency maps. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed
semi-supervised method even greatly outperforms all the state-of-the-art fully
supervised methods across three public benchmarks of VOS, DAVIS, and FBMS.Comment: ICCV2019, code is available at
https://github.com/Kinpzz/RCRNet-Pytorc
Curved water flow characteristics and its influence on navigation
The ship movement is mainly affected by the circulation current in curve channel. In this paper, the curve circulation is taken as the research object, 3D model is established and scientific numerical simulation is carried out. In order to study and analyze the difference, three curve models with different bending degrees are established in this simulation. Finally, according to the simulation results, the measures for safe navigation are proposed
First Impression Formation Based on Valenced Self-Disclosure in Social Media Profiles
This study aims to understand how the valence of self-disclosure (operationalized as the dominantly positive vs. balanced vs. dominantly negative social media posts of a future collaborator) influences first impression formation on social media. We also focus on trustworthiness as a mediator and perceived homophily as a moderator to specify the underlying mechanisms through which self-disclosure valence affects first impression formation. The results from an online experiment (N = 204) suggest that self-disclosure valence has a significant effect on perceived trustworthiness and likability when individuals evaluate an unknown future collaborator using the social media profile. Trustworthiness mediates the effect of self-disclosure valence on likability when the individuals feel that they are dissimilar or even slightly similar to strangers. At that time, individuals tend to seek cues from both self-disclosure valence and perceived homophily to form the trustworthiness perception, and the influence of self-disclosure depends on the level of perceived homophily
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