Congress and the Administration are currently exploring various methods of promoting access to long-term care. In this article, an inventory of recent legislative proposals for using the Federal tax code to expand access to long-term care services is provided. Proposals are arrayed along a functional typology that includes tax mechanisms to encourage accumulation of funds, promote purchase of l...

This study examines buyers and nonbuyers of long-term care insurance. The findings show that consumers purchased more comprehensive products in 1994-95 than they did in 1990, and that they appeared to get better value for the premium dollar. While annual sales are increasing at a rate of 25%, the market for long-term care insurance remains small, and many of the market barriers that existed fou...

climate change phenomenon is an important environmental challenge of the world. increasing extension of greenhouse gases and remote relationship phenomena accelerate the speed f climate change. changes in precipitation level, drought occurrence and changes in the level of surface and groundwater resources are the recognized consequences of climate change. in order to study consequences of clima...

In recent years, the value-added created in the transportation industry is about 8 percent of GDP of Iran. Due to the high-induced effect of transportation sector on the whole economy, analyzing transportation production function and its determinant is of great value for policymakers. The objective of the present research is to estimate the transportation production for the case of Iran and to ...

In scenarios of real-time data collection in long-term deployed Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), low-latency data collection and long network lifetime become key issue. We propose a Long-Lifetime and LowLatency Data Aggregation Scheduling algorithm (LDAS) in wireless sensor networks. Firstly, we formally formulate the problem of long-lifetime and minimum-latency aggregation scheduling as a cons...

climate change phenomenon is an important environmental challenge of the world that has increased its speed with the increasing extension of greenhouse gases and remote relationship phenomena. changes in precipitation level, drought occurrence and in the level of surface and groundwater resources are the recognized consequences of climate change. in order to study climate change phenomenon cons...

During short-term scheduling in a steel plant, one problem is to know beforehand how long equipment will be usable and when it will have to be maintained. The present system answers this question for a part in a continuous caster in order to inform another system that schedules short-term production. It uses fuzzy inference rules to process input data and to compute the life-expectancy of the p...

SUMMARY During short-term scheduling in a steel plant, one problem is to know beforehand how long equipment will be usable and when it will have to be maintained. The proposed system answers this question for a part in a continuous caster in order to inform another system that schedules short-term production. It uses fuzzy inference rules to process input data and to compute the life-expectancy...