Rural enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) and other prepaid plans grew by 15% from December 2008 to December 2009, faster than the 10% national growth rate. Preferred provider organization (PPO) plans drove the increased enrollment in MA plans in rural areas in 2009, while private fee-for-service (PFFS) plans continued to dominate the market with over 50% of enrollment. This landscape could c...

Imaging remains a mainstay of stroke diagnosis and treatment. 2009 brought much that was new: increased scrutiny of the safety of imaging; evidence of improved technical capabilities of imaging; new findings based on imaging; and as a result of the above, evidence that the field has definite needs. We will briefly cover each of these in turn.

English vocabulary, especially at the elementary stage of language learning process, is easily forgotten. Language games seem to be a good strategy for learning a foreign language. This study aimed to find a way to help elementary EFL learners fix the new English numbers in their minds. First, the general test of English numbers as a pretest was administered to 60 participants. They were requir...

manganese ore deposits occurred in various types of syngenetic, diagenetic and epigenetic mineralization in association with radiolarian cherts in colored melange of neyriz ophiolite in abadeh tashk area, eastern fars province. microscopic study and xrd analyses show a simple mineralogy for manganese compounds in all types. psylomelane and braunite are the primary manganese compounds in syngene...

Year 2009 was a banner year for Evolutionary Applications. Along with publishing four full issues (40 papers), the journal was fully indexed in ISI Web of Science, and was awarded the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for Best New Journal for 2009. We received 84 submissions, an over 20% increase from 2008. We published two special issues: Evolutionary Med...

species composition, relative abundance, absolute abundance and biomass of sturgeon species were studied during the years 2008-2009. eighty five stations were covered in the stratified random sampling design in depths less than 1om using 9m bottom trawl (head line) and in depths more than 10m using 24.7m bottom trawl (head line). more than 70 specimens of acipenser persicus were caught during t...