Medicare oversight of hospital compounding is questioned.

A unified treatment is presented here of compounding with the bivariate Poisson distribution. Exploiting the exponential nature of its probability generating function, it is shown that the pgf of the compound distribution is the moment generating function of the compounding random variable. This relationship leads to rather interesting general results. Particularly, the development of the condi...

Swedish has two main types of action nominal constructions (ANCs), either compounding or phrasal (incorporating nominal, in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993), which contain deverbal nouns -ande -(n)ing, along with dependent elements. This study investigates ANCs use, based on a limited data set from COVID-19 corpus. It adopts lexeme-based approach, where (simplex nominals), whether including ‑(n)ing, are...

In general, the risk of complications such as heart attack, stroke and poor blood circulation increases as people age. Among HIV-positive people, the risk of these complications is heightened compared to HIV-negative people because of the long-term effects of HIV infection. Chronic viral infections can cause inflammation, and ongoing inflammation can affect the health of many organ-systems, inc...

Ultrasound images are very noisy. Along with system noise, a significant noise source is the speckle phenomenon, caused by interference in the viewed object. Most past approaches for denoising ultrasound images essentially blur the image, and they do not handle attenuation. Our approach, on the contrary, does not blur the image and does handle attenuation. Our denoising approach is based on fre...

We present and characterize a sequential angular compounding method for reducing speckle contrast in optical coherence tomography images of paint layers. The results are compared with postprocessing methods, and we show that the compounding technique can improve the speckle contrast ratio in B-scans by better than a factor of 2 in exchange for a negligible loss of resolution. As a result, image...

William Snyder Languages differ in the mechanisms they provide for combining existing words into new, “compound” words. This chapter will focus on two major types of compound: synthetic -ER compounds, like English dishwasher (for either a human or a machine that washes dishes), where “-ER” stands for the crosslinguistic counterparts to agentive and instrumental -er in English; and endocentric b...

The compounding of “sterile” products has made headlines in the news in the United States over the last several years, due the lack of sterile conditions in a compounding pharmacy causing an outbreak of fungal meningitis [1]. Although USP Chapter <797> was released in 2008 and outlines in detail procedures needed to keep pharmacies sterile, these lapses in sterility still occurred [2]. However,...

Abstract In this paper, we present a use of XML and relational database for developing and maintaining Japanese linguistic resources. In languages that do not provide word delimitation in texts (e.g. Chinese and Japanese), consistent delimitation definition of words in a lexicon is a critical issue to build POS tagged corpora. When we change the definition of word delimitation in the lexicon, w...

Another tragic parenteral nutrition compounding error.