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The Narrow Passage to Medicare Reimbursement: Where Commercialization Barriers Meet Patients’ Rights
Using the field of neuroprosthetics as a paradigm, this Comment explores the connection between technology manufacturers and patients, as well as the common links between the two groups\u27 facially differing motivations. Part II offers a basic introduction to the neuroprosthetic industry and to Medicare\u27s current regulatory environment. Part III frames the reimbursement problem as it exists in current policy. Part IV explains why Medicare beneficiaries themselves do not have a legally functional remedy, and Part V offers some potential solutions that may have a better chance of meeting patient, industry, and legislative goals
Ron Lewis and Jack Price in a Joint Junior Recital
This is the program for the joint junior recital of pianist Ron Lewis and tenor Jack Price. Glenda Plummer assisted Price. This recital took place on April 18, 1966, in Mitchell Hall Auditorium
Machine-Learning System For Recurring Subscription Billing
A system and method for recurring billing of periodic subscriptions are disclosed. The system attempts to maximize a metric like long term customer retention while tailoring the subscription billing to the customer, using machine learning. The system is initially trained with a set of training data -- a large corpus of records of subscription billings -- including successes, billing failures, and customer cancellations. Any available metadata about the users or the type of subscription is also attached and may be used as features for the machine learning model. Such metadata may include, for example, customers\u27 age, gender, demographics, interests, and online behavioral profile/history, as well as metadata to identify the type of service being billed, such as music subscriptions,delivery subscriptions or other types of subscriptions, or the payment instrument. The system is used to predict the subscription model for a given user with relevant user-related constraints, while optimizing acceptability to that user
Implementation of a Direct-Imaging and FX Correlator for the BEST-2 Array
A new digital backend has been developed for the BEST-2 array at
Radiotelescopi di Medicina, INAF-IRA, Italy which allows concurrent operation
of an FX correlator, and a direct-imaging correlator and beamformer. This
backend serves as a platform for testing some of the spatial Fourier transform
concepts which have been proposed for use in computing correlations on
regularly gridded arrays. While spatial Fourier transform-based beamformers
have been implemented previously, this is to our knowledge, the first time a
direct-imaging correlator has been deployed on a radio astronomy array.
Concurrent observations with the FX and direct-imaging correlator allows for
direct comparison between the two architectures. Additionally, we show the
potential of the direct-imaging correlator for time-domain astronomy, by
passing a subset of beams though a pulsar and transient detection pipeline.
These results provide a timely verification for spatial Fourier transform-based
instruments that are currently in commissioning. These instruments aim to
detect highly-redshifted hydrogen from the Epoch of Reionization and/or to
perform widefield surveys for time-domain studies of the radio sky. We
experimentally show the direct-imaging correlator architecture to be a viable
solution for correlation and beamforming.Comment: 12 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, Accepted to MNRAS January 24, 2014,
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Jack L. Price in a Senior Voice Recital
This is the program for the voice recital of tenor, Jack L. Price, accompanied by Glenda Plummer on piano. The recital was held on April 27, 1967, in Mitchell Hall Auditorium
Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics
In this article, we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a new perspective on meaning. One neo-Peircean approach, referred to as Relationship Thinking (Enfield, 2009; 2013), has the potential to be influential for politeness research and linguistic pragmatics generally. In this article, we explore how the concept of relationship can be used to explore meaning on two dimensions: residential and representational (Kockelman, 2006 a;b). It is our contention that both of these dimensions are crucial to developing an understanding of what happens in the courtroom data on which this special issue focusses. We begin by providing a detailed overview of neo-Peircean semiotics in order to demonstrate its utility for researchers from different disciplines. We then show how a neo-Peircean analytical approach can illuminate elements of data that may not be accounted for in other analyses. This is as a consequence of the neo-Peircean framework’s scope and its capacity for coping with a range of interactionally significant phenomena, from individual linguistic tokens to institutional norms. In our analysis of the data at the heart of this special issue, the Penelope Soto case, we show that problems can arise when interactants have different understandings of what is a sign and what is an interpretant (Peirce, 1955). We make the case that it is a misunderstanding at this level (specifically the interpretations of the word “value”) that is ultimately what causes the interaction to conclude in the way that it does. Ultimately, we suggest that a neo-Peircean approach to the study of in/appropriate behaviour can facilitate links between the traditional (and sometimes disparate) methods of analysis used in politeness research
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