The number of stand-alone rural hospitals has been shrinking as larger health systems target these hospitals for mergers and acquisitions (M and As). However, little research has focused specifically on rural hospital M and A transactions. Using data from Irving Levin Associates' Healthcare M and A Report and Medicare Cost Reports from 2005 to 2012, we examined two research questions: (1) What ...

The present study measures levels of stigma within health care settings in urban and rural Gujarat, in an attempt to understand how this may have contributed to the state's increasing HIV incidence. Two sites were studied: a rural hospital in Bardoli and an urban hospital in Surat. HIV-associated stigma among healthcare workers (N=170) was assessed using a Stigma Index. Overall, analyses sugges...

This paper makes an analysis of subsidies in Chile’s public utilities. Rates rebalancing have practically eliminated cross subsidies, and current programs are funded from the national budget. Over the last decade in particular, significant efforts have been made to extend public services to rural populations, and a consumption subsidy for potable water currently benefits 17% of the population. ...

Motivated by the physics of quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collision experiments, we use holography to study regime applicability various theories relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. Using microscopic description provided a system that relaxes equilibrium, obtain initial data with which perform real-time evolutions 2+1 dimensional conformal fluids using first-order hydrodynamics theory...

In this article, we present an enhanced algorithm, of low complexity, for the tracking of partials in the context of sinusoidal modeling. By considering the past evolution of each partial in the time/frequency and time/amplitude planes to predict its future evolutions, this algorithm allows a better discrimination between sinusoidal and noisy components and an easier cancellation of sudden chan...