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Yun Chi,* Peng-Fu Hsu, Chao-Shiuan Liu,* Wei-Li Ching, Tsung-Yi Chou, Arthur J. Carty,* Shie-Ming Peng, Gene-Hsiang Lee and Shiow-Huey Chuang Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected] Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 Department of Chemistr...

OBJECTIVE In the context of aiming to achieve universal health coverage in Mexico, this study compares access to prescribed medicines (ATPM) between Seguro Popular (SP) and non-SP affiliated outpatient health service users. MATERIALS AND METHODS ATPM by 6,123 users of outpatient services was analyzed using the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012. Adjusted bi-probit models were performed...

Studies have shown that some musical pieces may preferentially activate reward centers in the brain. Less is known, however, about the structural aspects of music that are associated with this activation. Based on the music cognition literature, we propose two hypotheses for why some musical pieces are preferred over others. The first, the Absolute-Surprise Hypothesis, states that unexpected ev...

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the consequences of the introduction of Seguro Popular, a program designed to provide affordable health services to almost 50 million people uninsured by Social Security in Mexico. The evidence so far shows that Seguro Popular has been a very effective tool in reducing catastrophic health expenditures for Mexican families. However, the literature has...

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Contemporary statistical research frequently deals with problems involving a diverging number of parameters. For those problems, various shrinkage methods (e.g., LASSO, SCAD, etc) are found particularly useful for the purpose of variable selection (Fan and Peng, 2004; Huang et al., 2007b). Nevertheless, the desirable performances of those shrinkage methods heavily hinge on an appropriate select...

Since Pardoux and Peng introduced backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), the theory of which has been widely used and developed, mainly because of a large part of problems in mathematical finance can be treated as a BSDE. However it is known that only a limited number of BSDE can be solved explicitly. To develop numerical method and numerical algorithm is very helpful, theoretically ...

During the course of research into the association between asbestos exposure and laryngeal cancer, I read the recent meta-analysis by Peng and colleagues. It has come to my attention that the authors overlooked one of the largest cohort studies relevant to this topic, the study of Canadian asbestos miners published by Liddell and colleagues. It is the purpose of this letter to update the calcul...