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Medicine, General & Internal
Jeongsoo Kim, Michael A. Jacobs, Susanne Schmidt, Bradley B. Brimhall, Camerino I. Salazar, Chen-Pin Wang, Zhu Wang, Laura S. Manuel, Paul Damien, Paula K. Shireman
Summary: This study analyzed the cost savings of quality improvement projects using different cost measures and insurance types. The results showed higher complications rates and costs for Medicare and Medicaid/Uninsured patients compared to Private patients. It also highlighted the importance of using variable costs rather than total costs to accurately estimate the potential cost savings of quality improvement interventions.
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Orthopedics
Nicole D. Quinlan, Alyssa D. Althoff, Dennis Q. Chen, Brian C. Werner, Thomas E. Brown, James A. Browne
Summary: This study found that hospital charges and payments relative to surgeons have significantly increased for revision TKA surgeries, despite stable or increasing patient complexity and decreasing length of stay. Surgeon reimbursement decreased in all cohorts.
JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xiao Xu, Tong Zhang, Stefano Angioletti-Uberti, Yongqin Lv
Summary: This study investigates the interaction mechanism between copolymer nanoparticles and proteins through simulation and experimental analysis. It is found that copolymers with different charges and hydrophobicities have different effects on protein adsorption. A coverage-dependent model is proposed to explain the binding free energy between copolymers and proteins.
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Economics
Zhaoxia Kang, Chris A. Nash, Andrew S. J. Smith, Jianhong Wu
Summary: In China, track access charges were implemented for passenger trains in 2005 and freight trains in 2017. The coexistence of different railway enterprises and the interconnected characteristic of the railway network have led to a high proportion of inter-rail company traffic. This has resulted in a series of revenue/cost settlement regimes reforms being adopted.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Julita Kulbacka, Kazimiera A. Wilk, Urszula Bazylinska, Magda Dubinska-Magiera, Stanislaw Potoczek, Jolanta Saczko
Summary: Nano carriers loaded with curcumin and differing in surface charge were evaluated for transport efficacy in different types of cells with electroporation. The drug delivery properties of the obtained PLA nanocarriers enhanced by electroporation were assessed in human colon cancer cells, normal rat muscle cells, and cells free of voltage-gated ion channels. The highest photodynamic activity was observed in anionic nanocarriers stabilized by C-12(COONa)(2) surfactant.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
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Medical Ethics
Chris R. Triggle, Ross MacDonald, David J. Triggle, Donald Grierson
Summary: Journal impact factors, publication charges, and assessment of scientific research quality and accuracy are crucial for researchers and society. Traditional journals and preprint servers played different roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, with new assessment methods and open access publishing becoming the trend for the future.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH-POLICIES AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
(2022)
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Jeffrey A. Berinstein, Shirley A. Cohen-Mekelburg, Gillian M. Greenberg, Daniel Wray, Sameer K. Berry, Sameer D. Saini, A. Mark Fendrick, Megan A. Adams, Akbar K. Waljee, Peter D. R. Higgins
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a care coordination-based strategy in improving symptom burden and reducing healthcare costs for high-risk patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The results showed that patients in the care coordination intervention group demonstrated improvement in symptom scores compared to those in the usual care group, but there was no significant difference in healthcare charges related to IBD.
CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Oliver Y. Tang, Krissia M. Rivera Perla, Rachel K. Lim, James S. Yoon, Robert J. Weil, Steven A. Toms
Summary: Research found that in more competitive markets, hospitals charged higher fees for patients undergoing in-hospital cranial procedures. However, this did not result in increased inpatient costs, except for CSF diversion surgery. Increased competition did not lead to significant improvements in clinical outcomes, except for a potential survival benefit for brain tumor surgery.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Gil Einziger, Gabriel Scalosub, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino
Summary: Efficiently deploying services while meeting quality requirements is a major challenge in network slicing. This study proposes an algorithm called REShare that can adapt to operational conditions and find an optimal balance between conflicting requirements, improving service efficiency and reducing costs.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING
(2023)
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Substance Abuse
James R. Langabeer, Angela L. Stotts, Bentley J. Bobrow, Henry E. Wang, Kimberly A. Chambers, Andrea J. Yatsco, Marylou Cardenas-Turanzas, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Summary: Through a study of the national emergency department database, it was found that opioid-related emergency department visits and charges were high, particularly with overdose cases being the majority. This highlights the need for targeted interventions to address this crisis as a national priority.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2021)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Wagner E. Richter, Leonardo J. Duarte, Roy E. Bruns
Summary: GAPT is a popular charge model with unique features that make it difficult to compare directly with standard partition schemes. Research explores its dynamic nature and how to obtain relevant parts of GAPT from static charge models. Additionally, a conceptual evaluation of charge models aims to explain the strong correlation between GAPT and QTAIM charges.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Leijiao Ge, Hangxu Liu, Jun Yan, Xinshan Zhu, Shuai Zhang, Yuanzheng Li
Summary: This paper proposes an optimal planning model considering DG output uncertainties and carbon emission punishments. By introducing an affine model based on the matrix form and a tiered dynamic charging cost model, the overall costs of investment, operation, and carbon emissions can be minimized. The improved IQPSO algorithm is able to solve the multi-dimensional nonlinear model effectively. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively reduce the impacts of DG uncertainty and carbon emissions at the planning stage of IES with better long-term economy.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anna Michelle McPhee, Theodore C. K. Cheung, Mark A. Schmuckler
Summary: Multitasking is a critical feature of daily life, and this experiment explored adults' abilities to simultaneously engage in motor and cognitive activities. The results showed that both motor and cognitive factors influenced dual-task performance, with cognitive manipulations primarily driving dual-task costs for motor variables.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Nehal Mittal, P. Marios Petropoulos, David Rivera-Betancour, Matthieu Vilatte
Summary: We study the boundary manifestation of Ehlers' hidden Mobius symmetry in four-dimensional Ricci-flat spacetimes. By introducing Carrollian and Weyl geometric tools and using the boundary conformal group BMS4, we define the leading/subleading towers of electric/magnetic charges directly from the boundary dynamics and explore their behavior under the action of the Mobius duality group.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
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Orthopedics
Taylor D'Amore, Graham S. Goh, P. Maxwell Courtney, Gregg R. Klein
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate compliance with the price transparency mandate and found that published hospital charges were not correlated with inpatient costs, post-acute care costs, or episode-of-care costs. The study also revealed that only a few hospitals were fully compliant with the transparency requirements, and there was a wide range in published charges.
JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY
(2022)