The Affordable Care Act’s expansion of insurance coverage is expected to increase demand for primary care services. We estimate that the national increase in demand for such services will require 7,200 additional primary care providers, or 2.5 percent of the current supply. On average, that increased demand is unlikely to prove disruptive. But when we examined how this increased demand will be ...

We investigate the promise of the Ly-α forest for high precision cosmology in the era of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using low order N-point statistics. We show that with the existing data one can determine the amplitude, slope and curvature of the slope of the matter power spectrum with a few percent precision. Higher order statistics such as the bispectrum provide independent information tha...

The combined effect of soil moisture in unsaturated soil layers and pore-water pressure in saturated soil layers is critical to predict landslides. An improved infinite slope stability model, that directly includes unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater, is derived and used to analyze the factor of safety’s sensitivity to unsaturated zone soil moisture. This sensitivity, the change in t...

runoff collect used for to minimize losses and strengthen water resources in watersheds.countries like some areas of iran are facing to water scarcity, faced with unsuitable distribution of rainfall. by expanding the use of water sources, using the principles of runoff from rainfall can be effective to solve the problem of water shortage.in order to estimate the runoff in watershedsthere are se...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Currently there is no protocol in the west of Scotland for the investigation of a patient with a lymph node in the neck which might contain lymphoma. The aim of this audit was to examine the current management of these patients. METHODS Data were collected on 112 patients diagnosed as having lymphoma from a neck node biopsy within a 12 month period from 1st November 2004 t...

In 1992 Carlsen et al. reported a significant global decline in sperm density between 1938 and 1990 [Evidence for Decreasing Quality of Semen during Last 50 Years. Br Med J 305:609-613 (1992)]. We subsequently published a reanalysis of the studies included by Carlsen et al. [Swan et al. Have Sperm Densities Declined? A Reanalysis of Global Trend Data. Environ Health Perspect 105:1228-1232 (1997...

! , to occur in the function expression of the underlying function. Furthermore, we allow the function expression to contain functions given by two or more branches. By using interval arithmetic, second-order slope tuples provide verified enclosures of the range of the underlying function. We give some examples comparing range enclosures given by a second-order slope tuple with enclosures from ...