Recent Federal legislation, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), has launched a comprehensive national effort to conduct and disseminate comparative effectiveness research (CER). As purchasers of health care for employees, dependents and retirees, employers stand to benefit from potential quality and cost impacts of CER. Further, because they can influence patients, p...

The computational requirements of applications targeting multiand manycore systems increase rapidly. In order to achieve optimized execution, streaming applications must dynamically adapt to changes of their input. In this work, this intra-application dynamism is explored using an H.264 standard complying Codec pair. Initially, an encoder/decoder pair of applications is implemented for the DAL ...

iranian women's economic participation rate is similar to undeveloped countries, while their educational achievements can be compared with developed countries. the aim of this article is to discuss some of the factors related to the situation. according to the policies of third development plan, the rate of employment in government sector should decline and the opportunities for new employ...

This paper has examined the phenomenon of convergence of per capita out put levels across the IC countries for the 1960-1998 periods. Three concepts of convergence, i.e., sigma beta and relative beta, have been used. The estimated beta values reveals only a very weak convergence (?=.0014) across IC for 1960-1998 period. But when a more homogeneous group of countries were selected, the results s...

BACKGROUND Traditional two-dimensional (2D) echocardiographic evaluation of tricuspid annulus (TA) dilation is based on single-frame measurements of the septolateral (S-L) dimension. This may not represent either the axis or the extent of dynamism through the entire cardiac cycle. In this study, we used real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to analyze geometric changes in multiple...

OBJECTIVES Workplace smoking cessation programs can increase smoking cessation rates, improve employee health, reduce exposure to second-hand smoke, and decrease costs. To assist with the development of such programs, we conducted a Global Workplace Smoking Survey to collect information on workplace attitudes towards smoking cessation programs. METHODS Data were collected from 1,403 employers...

BACKGROUND This study sought to examine the relationship between tobacco-free policies at worksites to worksite demographics such as company size and geographic location. METHODS Worksites participating in a worksite wellness workshop were asked to complete a worksite wellness instrument, which provided an assessment of their wellness practices already in place in the worksite, including the ...

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