– important as satisfaction may be related to clinical outcomes (Gemmel and Hayes, 2001; Gaumer, 2006). Preventive, or maintenance, care is even more important as one grows older (Leboeuf-Yde and Hestbaek, 2008). Since musculoskeletal complaints are generally chronic in nature, maintenance programs seek to avoid acute exacerbations and maintain optimal function (Rupert et al., 2000). Consequent...

The modern queens maintenance systems are based on the use of artificial insemination, queens’ maintenance in the so called „queens bank” , in this way assuring an increased economic efficiency in beekeeping. This study aimed to compare the economic efficiency of the implementation of A.I. to various queen bees maintenance systems. Three alternatives have been taken into account: V1-a queen bee...

on the effects of income maintenance laws on fertility. The appendices to this paper are printed separately as Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper 118-72 and are available to those interested in the detailed tabulations and calculations underlying the summary tables in the paper. ABSTRACT The potential effects of income maintenance laws on fertility are examined in terms of an ec...

According to the Head Start Act (1998), children are income-eligible for the program if their “families’ incomes are below the poverty line.” There are a number of statutory exceptions to this general rule and, according to the Head Start Bureau, the result is that about 6 percent of the children in the program are not poor. But the major national surveys of Head Start families report that 30 p...

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This is the latest in a series of reports of the same title that have been published intermittently since the early 1960’s. The term social security is popularly used in the United States to refer to the basic national social insurance program-old-age, survivors, disability, and health insurance. The term is used here in a broader sense to describe all types of social insurance, social assistan...