Hospitals and health systems, whether general acute care hospitals or specialty-driven hospitals, are attempting to prosper in a unique time. This year, hospitals throughout the country will see increased reimbursement for hospital inpatient services, rather than decreased reimbursement. Many hospitals are examining a multitude of options for debt financing and a number of the nation's hospital...

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Psychological science has developed remarkably in the past century. These advances are due in part to the development of new methods for examining the underpinnings of how people think and behave. Although studies that employ the naked eye as a measuring instrument still hold tremendous value, behavioral observation is now joined by cutting-edge methods that permit reliable examination of human...

Historically, the assessment of nonhuman animal personality has included a variety of methods--from direct behavioral observations in a variety of test situations to assessments provided by animal caretakers or trainers. Careful observation of how animals in zoos interact with novel enrichment may provide reliable insight into their personality. This study sought to describe a process for evalu...

When delivered as a live performance this text is punctuated with the display of interactive media, sometimes with commentary, sometimes without. In this text appropriately illustrative pieces are named. There is no way to word up, describe or account for what is done using the interactive media artefacts. The best I can hope for is that you find those works for yourselves and having experience...

We address the problem of observing an agent We advocate a modeling approach for the visual system and its observer where a discrete event dynamic system DEDS framework is developed and events are de ned as ranges on parameter subsets The dynamic recursive context for nite state machines DRFSM is described with some applications in the inspection and reverse engineering domain We propose a syst...

Mixed-level fractional factorial designs are commonly used in industries but its aliasing relations have not been studied in full rigor. These designs take the form of a product array. Aliasing patterns of mixed level factorial designs are discussed here.

1. Popular version of karma 1 2. The rigors of abhidharma 2 2.1. Criterion of substantial reality (dravyasat) 2 2.2. Abhidharmic notions of the person 3 2.3. Four questions for the abhidharmic view of karma 3 3. Vasubandhu’s analysis of karma 4 3.1. Two special kinds of causal factors 5 3.2. Critique of prāpti and aprāpti 7 3.3. Critique of avijñapti rūpa 7 3.3.1. Arguments for avijñapti rūpa 8...

The discovery of a pancreatic cyst in an asymptomatic patient presents an immediate challenge to the interpreting radiologist, the clinician who manages the patient, and patients themselves. When a cyst is discovered on imaging in a patient without symptoms directly referable to the pancreas, the following questions are immediately raised: can the lesion be accurately diagnosed or is the approp...