Due to resource constraint of WSNs, it may be unnecessary or impossible to provide full coverage in many applications. Instead, partial coverage is enough to satisfy user requirements. Meanwhile, by applying partial coverage, network lifetime can be prolonged remarkably which is a primary goal of WSNs. In this paper, we investigate the pPercent Coverage Problem which only requires that p% of th...

in 1974, the world health organization (who) established the expanded program on immunization (epi) to ensure that all children have access to routinely recommended vaccines. since then, global coverage with the four core vaccines (bacille calmette guérin vaccine [for protection against tuberculosis], diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine [dtp], polio vaccine, and measles vaccine) has increased ...

Given that such a large and growing share of young adults ages 19 to 26 lacks health insurance coverage, increasing policy attention has been focused on addressing coverage gaps among young adults. Fully 10.3 million young adults—or one in three (32 percent)—lack health insurance coverage. While young adults constitute 18 percent of the adult population, they make up 28 percent of the uninsured...

Based on data for private wage and salary workers in May 1988, this article examined pension coverage under two types of employer-sponsored pension plans. Some of the factors associated with employer-financed pension coverage were also examined, and comparisons were made to findings on pension coverage of full-time workers in 1972, 1979, and 1983. "Covered" workers were defined as those actuall...

• Fewer workers taking coverage: Between 1997 and 2002, the percentage of workers offered health benefits increased from 70 percent to 71.4 percent, and the percentage of workers covered by that health plan increased from 60 percent to 60.7 percent. Despite the fact that offer rates and coverage rates had increased, the percentage of workers taking coverage when offered declined from 85.7 perce...

.IT THE ENI> OF 1968, private health insurance organizations gave some protection against hospital costs to an estimated 152 million persons in the ITnited States, or 77 percent, of the civilian population. Some protect,ion against surgical costs was given to 74 percent, of t,lie population and some coverage of in-hospital physician visits to 6.5 percent of the population. For services or t,ype...

INTRODUCTION Isolation of common pathogens involved in ocular infection, and their in-vitro susceptibility to commonly-used ocular antibiotics, as well as the trends in antibiotic resistance developed by these pathogens, were investigated. METHODS Corneal scrapings were obtained from 318 hospitalised patients and inoculated directly onto enriched and differential culture media. Subcultures we...

This article examines health insurance coverage among a group of newly entitled disability insurance beneficiaries. Although only 50 percent of the beneficiaries had been entitled to disability benefits long enough to be eligible for Medicare coverage, a full 86 percent of them had some type of health coverage. Excluding coverage by Medicare, nearly 75 percent of the sample had coverage under o...

ISSUE: The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) coverage provisions have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While the effects of the Medicaid expansion and marketplace establishments on coverage have been well studied, the resulting effects of coverage on access to health care remain unclear. GOAL: To examine how the 2014 coverage expansions affected health care access followin...

About 58,000 Indochina refugees worked in OASDHI-covered employment in the period 1975-76 and acquired at least 1 quarter of coverage (table 3). This figure represents about 43 percent of those to whom a social security number was issued and processed through the end of 1976. Fifty-three percent of the men workers issued numbers had acquired at Ieast 1 quarter of coverage, compared with 32 perc...