This policy brief analyzes the 2014 premiums associated with qualified health plans (QHPs) made available through new health insurance marketplaces (HIMs), an implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. We report differences in premiums by insurance rating areas while controlling for other important factors such as the actuarial value of the plan (metal level...

Motivational interviewing is a goal-oriented psychotherapy, employed in cases such as addiction, that aims to help clients explore and resolve their ambivalence about their problem. In motivational interviewing, it is desirable for the counselor to communicate empathy towards the client to promote better therapy outcomes. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network (DNN) system for predicti...

The effects of a 20-min nap before post-lunch dip were studied. The subjects participated in nap and no-nap conditions at intervals of 1 week. Their electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of relaxed wakefulness, mood, performance, and self-rating of performance level were measured every 20 min from 10.00 to 18.00 h. For nap condition, the subjects went to bed at 12.20 h and were awakened after t...

A news recommendation system not only must recommend the latest, trending, and personalized to users but also give opportunity know about people's opinion on trending news. Most of existing systems focus recommending articles based user-specific tweets. In contrast these systems, proposed Personalized News Tweet Recommendation System (PNTRS) recommends tweets recommended article. It firstly gen...