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Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans for Dual Eligibles: A Primer
(The Commonwealth Fund, 2008-02)The Special Needs Plan (SNP), a new type of Medicare Advantage plan created by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), targets one of three special-needs populations—including beneficiaries who qualify both ... -
Coordinating Care for Dual Eligibles: Options for Linking State Medicaid Programs with Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans
(The Commonwealth Fund, 2008-02)States that aim to develop Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans for dual eligibles may choose from among three potential models discussed in this issue brief: 1) a Medicaid program in which the beneficiary voluntarily ... -
Turning Medicaid Beneficiaries into Purchasers of Health Care: Critical Success Factors for Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Purchasing
(Academy Health, 2006-08)This issue brief is an executive summary and update to the more comprehensive issue brief with the same title dated January 2006. -
A dynamic adaptive particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm for different constrained engineering design optimization problems
(SAGE journals, 2018-12-12)A dynamic adaptive particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm is presented to solve constrained engineering optimization problems. A dynamic adaptive inertia factor is introduced in the basic particle swarm ... -
Coupling feedback genetic circuits with growth phenotype for dynamic population control and intelligent bioproduction
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-03-30)Metabolic engineering entails target modification of cell metabolism to maximize cell's production potential. Due to the complexity of cell metabolism, feedback genetic circuits have emerged as basic tools to combat metabolic ... -
Tests of General Relativity and Fundamental Physics with Space-based Gravitational Wave Detectors
(2019-03-07)Low-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy can perform precision tests of general relativity and probe fundamental physics in a regime previously inaccessible. A space-based detector will be a formidable tool to explore ... -
A Shocking Shift in Paradigm for Classical Novae
(2019-03-19)The discovery of GeV gamma-rays from classical novae has led to a reassessment of these garden-variety explosions, and highlighted their importance for understanding radiative shocks, particle acceleration, and dust formation ... -
Time Domain Studies of Neutron Star and Black Hole Populations: X-ray Identification of Compact Object Types
(2019-03-23)What are the most important conditions and processes governing the growth of stellar-origin compact objects? The identification of compact object type as either black hole (BH) or neutron star (NS) is fundamental to ... -
The Physics of Accretion Onto Highly Magnetized Neutron Stars
(2019-03-29)Studying the physical processes occurring in the region just above the magnetic poles of strongly magnetized, accreting binary neutron stars is essential to our understanding of stellar and binary system evolution. Perhaps ... -
Ethane in Titan’s Stratosphere from Cassini CIRS Far- and Mid-infrared Spectra
(The American Astronomical Society, 2019-04-02)The Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observed thermal emission in the far- and mid-infrared (from 10 to 1500 cm⁻¹), enabling spatiotemporal studies of ethane on Titan across the span of the Cassini mission ... -
Improving Safety in Reinforcement Learning Using Model-Based Architectures and Human Intervention
(2019-03-22)Recent progress in AI and Reinforcement learning has shown great success in solving complex problems with high dimensional state spaces. However, most of these successes have been primarily in simulated environments ... -
Extending Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems With Bayesian Abductive Reasoning
(2019-03-28)Evolving cybersecurity threats are a persistent challenge for system administrators and security experts as new malwares are continually released. Attackers may look for vulnerabilities in commercial products or execute ... -
Hybrid Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Source Systems
The use of artificial intelligence in clinical care to improve decision support systems is increasing. This is not surprising since by its very nature, the practice of medicine consists of making decisions based on ... -
Evolutionary variation in the expression of phenotypically plastic color vision in Caribbean mantis shrimps, genus Neogonodactylus
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006-03-07)Many animals have color vision systems that are well suited to their local environments. Changes in color vision can occur over long periods (evolutionary time), or over relatively short periods such as during development. ... -
Using Spectral Data To Reconstruct Evolutionary Changes In Coloration: Carotenoid Color Evolution In New World Orioles
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007-05-08)Carotenoid‐based colors are thought to play an important signaling role in many animal taxa. However, little is known about evolutionary changes in carotenoid coloration, especially among closely related species. We used ... -
Quick guide Stomatopods
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Photochemistry of retinal chromophore in mouse melanopsin
(National Academy of Sciences, 2008-06-25)In mammals, melanopsin is exclusively expressed in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which play an important role in circadian photoentrainment and other nonimage-forming functions. These ipRGCs ... -
Head-bobbing behavior in foraging whooping cranes favors visual fixation
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Circular Polarization Vision in a Stomatopod Crustacean
(Elsevier B.V, 2008-03-25)We describe the addition of a fourth visual modality in the animal kingdom, the perception of circular polarized light. Animals are sensitive to various characteristics of light, such as intensity, color, and linear ... -
Transmission of linearly polarized light in seawater: implications for polarization signaling
(The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2004-07-12)Partially linearly polarized light is abundant in the oceans. The natural light field is partially polarized throughout the photic range, and some objects and animals produce a polarization pattern of their own. Many ...
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