Neveral cau8ea may explain the rapid acccleration in hospital costs with the advent of dfedicure and Medicaid. To sort out the influence of these separate faotors, thi.9 article presents certain types of evidence of ho8pitaJ coat inflation in the flr8t 2 years of Medicare: overall trend8 in ho8pitaZ revenue8 and expenses, labor and capital components of cost inflation, trend8 in individual hosp...

In this work, a microcontroller based circuit that performs the functions of an inverter /AVR hardware essentially consists of a PIC 16F877A microcontroller based circuit,. SG 3524 based modified sine-wave inverter driver circuit, a step-up. Modified sine wave inverter is designed to using pic microcontroller and push pull topology. output of control circuit for modified sine wave inverter The ...

With the development of urbanization, the construction of town informationization is becoming more and more urgent and important in China. At present, the consciousness of town informationization is not deep; the information application is not of large scale; information-based talents are not enough and the information industry is of low level. Besides, lots of towns don’t know what to do and h...

We prove that two pushing-blocks puzzles are intractable in 2D. One of our constructions improves an earlier result that established intractability in 3D [OS99] for a puzzle inspired by the game PushPush. The second construction answers a question we raised in [DDO00] for a variant we call Push-1. Both puzzles consist of unit square blocks on an integer lattice; all blocks are movable. An agent...

This paper addresses the nature of the demand schedule for emerging market assets in both its macroeconomic and microeconomic dimensions. The former is usually analysed in terms of the ‘push factors’ (such as interest rates or contagion) determining international capital flows; while the latter is normally approached through the portfolio composition decisions (such as herding or risk appetite)...

Human knowledge and intellectual capital are essential in economic growth and social development of a country in knowledge economy, and a higher premium is often placed on education especially on higher education. China and India play significant roles in the globalization of knowledge economy. In this ongoing research study, we investigate how sociocultural factors influence technology adoptio...

introduction : the aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effect of smear layer on the push-out bond strength of white mineral trioxide aggregate (wmta) with and without disodium hydrogen phosphate (na 2 hpo 4 ). materials and methods: dentin discs with standard cavities were obtained from extracted human single-rooted teeth and divided to 4 groups ( n =15) according to the irrigation r...

Push back design as a complex task, is one of the major steps in the open pit mines planning. Push backs can be generated by varying economic factors such as commodity price, mining cost, processing cost, etc. Another important issue in generating push backs is grade uncertainty, which can cause the problem be more complex. Conventional methods of push back design ignore grade uncertainty. To o...

Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich panels are composed of two steel plates with low thicknesses and high densities and strengths and one thick layer between both plates with low strength and density known as core that is composed of concrete. Cohesive material-epoxy resin or shear connectors are usually used to connect the plates to the concrete core. SCS sandwich composites are being develope...

There have been two broad theories of inflation, namely the demand-pull theory of inflation (that is nowadays mainly the monetary theory of inflation) and the cost-push theory of inflation. The mainstream macroeconomics views inflation as a monetary phenomenon in the long run. Iran has experienced double-digit rates of inflation for about four decades. Our main aim is an explanation for the lon...