Medicare Encounter data is received by each state’s Peer Review Organization as an Oracle database known as the SDPS (Standard Data Processing System) data set. This data set is used for quality improvement projects, integrity investigations, and research. This data set is then queried with SAS software and the SAS SQL pass-through facility. Often the criteria for selecting data from the SDPS d...

BACKGROUND Several studies have been attempting to ascertain the risks of Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS) and its morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE The main objective was to verify whether SAS increases the risk of death; the secondary objective was to evaluate its morbidity in relation to cardiovascular disease and the number of days hospitalized. METHODS A systematic review and a meta-analysi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how consumers respond differently to “scratch and save (SAS)” promotions versus “tensile price claims (TPC).” SAS promotions provide a possible discount (determined probabilistically) but conceal the exact amount until purchase. Tensile price claims (e.g. “up to 25 percent off on items marked with a red tag”) make imprecise price promotional cla...

BACKGROUND Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a selective radiotherapy, being effective for the treatment of even advanced malignancies in head and neck regions as well as brain tumors and skin melanomas. To clarify the role of p53 gene, the effect of BNCT on oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells showing either wild- (SAS/neo) or mutant-type (SAS/mp53) p53 was examined. METHODS Cells ...

SAS sometimes provides an optimal environment for part of an assignment but third-party applications provide a better environment for other parts. The creation of report-quality statistical tables is such a situation. SAS is optimal for statistics but clumsy for publishing report-quality tables. XML offers a new way to integrate SAS with publishing software. To implement, SAS was taught a stand...

BACKGROUND The subarachnoid space (SAS) and ventricular width (VW) in normal infants and children were studied with ultrasonography to provide the objective measurement and define a normal range for these measurements. The additional aim was to determine the stable ratio as a SAS/VW. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 healthy subjects, including 48 males and 52 females, were studied. The ca...

AIM To assess whether the surgical apgar score (SAS) is a prognostic tool capable of identifying patients at risk of major complications following lower extremity amputations surgery. METHODS This was a single-center, retrospective observational cohort study conducted between January 2013 and April 2015. All patients who had either a primary transtibial amputation (TTA) or transfemoral amputa...

We deene the SAS + planning formalism, which generalizes the previously presented SAS formalism. The SAS + formalism is compared with some better-known propositional-planning formalisms with respect to expres-siveness. Contrary to intuition, all formalisms turn out to be equally expressive in a very strong sense. We further present the SAS +-PUS planning problem which generalizes the previously...

Parallel SAS processes, multiple threads within a single SAS process, parallel SAS servers, distributed computing, grid computing, cluster computing – how might all of these choices affect the way that you develop your client/server SAS applications? This paper will address some of these areas and what you should understand when you develop or run client/server SAS applications in these environ...