Although substantial numbers of women seeking Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) report domestic violence, few receive mandated services through the Family Violence Option (FVO). This study used transcripts ofinterviews between welfare caseworkers and their clients to identify and classify the responses made by workers to client disclosures of abuse and to assess the match or mismat...

OBJECTIVE To compare 12-month healthcare costs between employees with versus without diagnosed opioid abuse within 12 months after an injury-related workers' compensation (WC) or short-term disability (STD) claim. METHODS Retrospective study using 2003 to 2014 US insurance claims linked to administrative data on WC/STD claims. Multivariable models compared healthcare costs between employees w...

Despite the popularity of financial compensation as a means for addressing trust violations, the question whether (more) money can indeed buy trust back remains largely unexplored. In the present research, we focus on the role of violation type and compensation size. The results of a scenario study and a laboratory experiment show that financial compensation can effectively promote the restorat...

Pseudohypacusis or the intentional feigning of hearing loss is a challenging situation in the medicolegal evaluation of hearing levels. Few studies have been performed on predisposing factors that make compensation claims susceptible to malingering. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational level and frequency of pseudohypacusis in a group of medico-legal cl...

" Any ' Insured Person' who may be a patient in this Institution has only to apply to the Sister of the Ward in which he is being treated, for a certificate (which is granted free), as often as his Approved Society requires it. This certificate is quite sufficient under Memorandum No. 211, paras. 38 and 39, issued by the Insurance Commissioners, to enable any Approved Society to pay sick benefi...

multiple primary tumors in a single patient are relatively rare when four or more distinct lesions are considered. herein, we report a case of woman with four different primary tumors: meningioma, renal angiomyolipoma, spinal ependymoma and high-grade soft tissue sarcoma. there was no family history and hereditary syndrome. the genetic analysis was completely normal. to best of our knowledge, t...

Modelling the behavior of social insects has attracted much research recently. Although honey– bees exhibit many features that encourage their use as models for intelligent behavior, up to our knowledge, no attempt for using honey-bees as a basis for optimization has been made in the literature. Some of the features that distinguish honey–bees are division of labor, communication on the individ...

In this article, we present a distributed variant of an adaptive stochastic gradient method for training deep neural networks in the parameter-server model. To reduce communication cost among workers and server, incorporate two types quantization schemes, i.e., weight quantization, into proposed Adam. addition, to bias introduced by operations, propose error-feedback technique compensate quanti...

The aim of the study was to estimate the impact of antibiotic doxycycline on the spring development of the bee colonies, worker bees’ bodies chemical composition, development of hypopharyngeal glands and some physicochemical parameters of honey. The experiment was conducted during the spring stimulating feeding at apiary of Research Center of Stockbreeding and Agriculture, Smolyan, Bulgaria. Tw...