The Medicare Advantage (MA) program offers beneficiaries a choice of private health plans as alternatives to the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program. MA plans potentially provide additional value, but as plan choices have proliferated, consumers contemplating their options have had difficulty understanding how they differ. Through "standardization" more consistent types of information ...

the main purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the export of flowers in iran. after data collection using by the index of revealed comparative advantage (rca), the condition of business of flowers in iran was compared with a number of countries exporting the product. according to the results of study, the small elasticity of the exportation price in the function of export...

Many studies have shown the advantage of using ideal binary masking (IdBM) to improve the intelligibility of speech corrupted by interfering maskers. Given the fact that amplitude and phase are two important acoustic cues for speech perception, the present work further investigated the relative contributions of these two cues to the intelligibility advantage of IdBM-processed sentences. Three t...

Two-party one-way quantum communication has been extensively studied in the recent literature. We target the size of minimal information that is necessary for a feasible party to finish a given combinatorial task, such as distinction of instances, using one-way communication from another party. This type of complexity measure has been studied under various names: advice complexity, Kolmogorov c...

Internet voting is an emerging e-government phenomenon. In the United States, several state and local governments have experimented with Internet voting. This study presents a model of Internet voting adoption that integrates diffusion of innovation theory, institution-based trust and e-government utilization. To test the model a survey is administered to 372 citizens. The results of structural...

Objective: To investigate whether 14-3-3 eta protein is detectable in synovial fluid and blood serum of high performance horses and to study whether any significant correlation between this and matrix metalloproteinase 1 and 3 in horse synovial fluid. Design: Clinical study. Animals: Eleven standard breed horses (seven high performances and four controls). Procedures: Blood serum and fetlock...

BACKGROUND Mental health during pregnancy has not been investigated in Vietnam. Antenatal depression is an established risk factor for postpartum mood disturbance and two representative cohort studies have found rates of depression after childbirth in Vietnam two to three times higher than those in high income countries. AIM The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the prevalence ...

 The endocrine cells of Salmo trutta macrostigma stomach and pyloric caeca have been investigated using immunohistochemical techniques. 8 antisera were tested and 6 of them were detected in the endocrine cells serotonin, somatostatin, substance P, galanin, CCK and neuropeptide Y. These immunoreactive cells are described for the first time in the stomach and pyloric caeaca of Salmo trutta macros...