Why people need plants

Why Medicare Matters to People Who Need Long-Term Care

Medicare was enacted to provide health insurance to the elderly (and later, the disabled) population. Not only was it not intended to pay for long-term care (LTC); its statute explicitly excluded coverage for custodial care—the assistance with basic activities of daily living (ADLs) (such as bathing, dressing, and eating) that constitute LTC. Although the Federal-State Medicaid program, unlike ...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Why Societies Need

Why Robots Need Maps

A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) and finally return to the initial position. The graph is not known in advance (an online setting) and robots have to traverse an edge in order to discover new parts (edges) of the graph. The team can locally exchange information...

Why people self-verify.

Why do people choose interaction partners who see them as they see themselves? Self-verification theorists propose that a desire to bolster perceptions of predictability and control underlies such activities. In contrast, advocates of positivity strivings argue that people choose such interaction partners in the hope of making themselves feel good. Two studies tested these competing explanation...