BACKGROUND India's health expenditure is met mostly by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments at the time of illness. To protect poor families, the Indian government launched a national health insurance scheme (RSBY). Those below the national poverty line (BPL) are eligible to join the RSBY. The premium is heavily subsidised by the government. The enrolled members receive a card and ca...

I investigate and develop theory for term languages for a variant of bigraphs with binding, thus building the formal foundation for a (term-based) tool for bigraphical reactive systems. I present two main results (developed with co-authors). First, I give an axiomatization of structural congruence (graph equivalence) for binding bigraphs. Along the way, I devise a term language for binding bigr...

This document provides a detailed description of IPv6 deployment and integration methods and scenarios in today’s Service Provider (SP) Broadband (BB) networks in coexistence with deployed IPv4 services. Cable/HFC, BB Ethernet, xDSL, and WLAN are the main BB technologies that are currently deployed, and discussed in this document. The emerging Broadband Power Line Communications (PLC/BPL) acces...

Biotin protein ligase (BPL; EC 6.3.4.15) catalyses the formation of biotinyl-5'-AMP from biotin and ATP, and the succeeding biotinylation of the biotin carboxyl carrier protein. We describe the crystal structures, at 2.4 A resolution, of the class I BPL from the hyperthermophilic bacteria Aquifex aeolicus (AaBPL) in its ligand-free form and in complex with biotin and ATP. The solvent-exposed be...

We analyze the X-ray spectra of the neutron-star (NS) X-ray transients Aql X-1 and 4U 160852,obtained with RXTE during more than twenty outbursts. Our aim is to properly decompose the spectral components and to study their evolution across the hard and soft X-ray states. We test the commonly used spectral models and evaluate their performance against desirability criteria, including LX ∝ T 4 ev...

The use of Monte Carlo simulation to predict the adsorption of mixtures of polar and nonpolar species on acti®ated carbon was in®estigated using water and ethane on BPL carbon as a prototype system. The structure of the adsorbent was modeled by an array of slit-shaped pores, characterized by a pore-size distribution. The chemical heterogeneity of the carbon was taken into account by including o...

Abstract Study question Is there an association between additional subcutaneous progesterone (a-sP) during luteal phase support for vitrified-warmed euploid blastocyst transfers and the clinical outcomes? Summary answer a-sP was mainly administered to worse-prognosis patients:positive-pregnancy-test (PPT), but also biochemical-pregnancy-loss (BPL) rates were lower than control, thereby involvin...