Survey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing the Medicare population. Based on a stratified random sample, we can derive information about the health care use, expenditure, and financing of Medicare’s 37 million enrollees. We can also learn about those enrollees’ health status, living arrangements, and access to and satisfaction with care. The MCBS allows for detailed analysis of the dually e...

impacts on profitability of dairies, primarily through its impact on average milk/ cow/ day, but also due to its impact on culling and the number of calves born. Despite improved understanding of the financial impacts of poor reproductive management, reproductive efficiency has been on the decline within the dairy industry for the last 50 years. Consequently, producers have expressed renewed in...

The risk of financial positions is measured by the minimum amount of capital to raise and invest in eligible portfolios of traded assets in order to meet a prescribed acceptability constraint. We investigate nondegeneracy, finiteness and continuity properties of these risk measures with respect to multiple eligible assets. Our finiteness and continuity results highlight the interplay between th...

The issue of inheritance is a matter that inherently related to human beings, as every individual will inevitably encounter the event death. Inheritance law governs rights and obligations concerning transfer inherited property surviving heirs after deceased's Among eligible entitled receive an from their parents are children, including those born through test tube baby procedures. This research...