As an essential part of its effort to achieve near universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends sizable tax credits to most people who buy insurance on the newly established health care exchanges. Yet several lawsuits have been filed challenging the availability of those tax credits in the thirty-four states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The lawsuits are premised on a...

This paper investigates the relationship between consumer credits and interest rates in Turkey based on the fractional cointegration approach by using daily observations over the period from 4 January 2002 to 24 December 2010. First, we ignore the possible structural breaks in the series and perform the Geweke and Porter-Hudak (GPH) test on the residuals for fractional cointegration. Second, we...

Virtualization-based cloud computing platforms allow multiple virtual machines (VMs) running on the same physical machine. Efficient allocation of limited underlying resources has been a key issue. In order to improve the CPU resources utilization, this paper presents a workload-aware CPU resources scheduling method (WARS). WARS uses the allocated credits and consumed credits to diagnose the CP...

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact on overall economic freedom, while the effect of the amount of World Bank credits is negative. These ...

In our paper, we propose a modification of queue based exponential scheduler that dynamically improves the channel gain of far away users (by increasing their credits) at the cost of a small reduction of the same for the nearby users(by reducing the credits), since users nearby anyway have a fairly high gain. Results clearly suggest that the proposed method is able to maintain a constant averag...

India is a genuine and developing player in the worldwide carbon credits showcase. This has instigated incited originator, dealer designer of credits, to set up their workplaces India. Presently day's credit rising area particularly however there are not very many corporate who know about this section credits. The present study comprises sample 56 Indian firms, which report climate change data ...

PHYS 226N. Honors: University Physics I. 4 Credits. Open only to students in the Honors College. A special honors version of PHYS 231N. This course also includes a Recitation Section for more indepth discussion of advanced problems. Prerequisites: MATH 211 with a grade of C or better. Preor corequisite: MATH 212. PHYS 227N. Honors: University Physics II. 4 Credits. Open only to students in the ...

On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell. The case involves the availability of tax credits in federally-run, as opposed to state-run, health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If the Court eliminates the credits, premiums will rise and millions of Americans will be left uninsured. One study estimates that each year, 9,800 of them will die as a ...

1 This paper has been written for a course organized in Helsinki University of Technology at fall 2007: Seminar on Distributed Systems Peer-to-Peer Systems with Mobile Applications. Abstract – A credit system provides an incentive mechanism, which addresses peer-to-peer networks’ free riding problem. In the credit system, users earn credits from their contribution to peer-to-peer network. These...