MCO Perspectives on Medicaid Policy: Racial Equity in Pregnancy and Child Health by Christine McClure, Cynthia Salter, Dara D. Méndez, Evan S. Cole, Sarah A. Sanders, Sydney Sharp, Marquita Smalls, Linda Adodoadji, Adena Bowden, Marian Jarlenski

“…Introduction: In 2020 and 2021, Pennsylvania implemented the Equity Incentive Program and the Maternity Care Bundled Payment program, two unique pay-for-performance (P4P) programs that provide financial incentives for managed care organizations (MCOs) that make improvements in utilization and quality metrics for Black women and children. …”
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Demographic and Treatment Analysis of Periosteal Osteosarcoma by Michael C. Larkins

“…ABSTRACT Background and Aims Periosteal osteosarcoma (PO) is a rare bone cancer that makes up between 1% and 6% of osteosarcomas. No epidemiological survey of the United States has been conducted to study this disease, and most of the literature is limited to single‐center analyses and case reports. …”
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THE TAXATION OF IMPUTED INCOME FROM REAL ESTATE LEASING TO PREVENT SHADOWING AND PROPERTY INEQUALITY by L. P. Koroleva

“…The availability of such income contributes to the reduction of the labor supply by the owner, the aggravation of property inequality and the distortion of investment decisions. This makes the use of the imputed income tax on leasing real estate a matter of vital importance. …”
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Application of decision diagrams of incompletely specified of k-valued logic functions in the synthesis of logical circuits by P. N. Bibilo

“…The proposed approach makes it possible to define partial multi-valued functions to fully defined Boolean functions in two stages. …”
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The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Academic Performances and Computational Thinking Skills in the Computational Problem-Solving Approach by İrem Nur Çelik, Kaan Bati

“…It is anticipated that the research results will make meaningful contributions to the literature concerning the progress of computational thinking skills in secondary school students.…”
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Development and Application of Smart Packaging Solutions for Extending the Shelf Life of Fresh Produce by Mohamed Al Hassan, AI_Sadi Hafidh l., Hemalatha K.

“…This system empowers consumers to make informed purchasing decisions, reduces food waste, and enhances food safety and quality throughout the supply chain. …”
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Comparing the Shielding Features of Graphene and Impregnated Activated Carbon with Selected Traditional Shielding Materials For Gamma-Rays by Hasan Gülbiçim, Doğan Erbahar, Türkan Nuredin, Dilara İckecan

“…Having the sheets of atoms stacked in disorganized manner makes activated carbon different from other forms of graphitic structures. …”
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The Impact of the Internet on Relational Goods: Empirical Evidence from European Countries by Keziban Altun Erdoğdu

“…Relational goods that make people feel satisfied and content are generally produced/consumed in positive family and friendship connections. …”
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Grid cells, place cells, and geodesic generalization for spatial reinforcement learning. by Nicholas J Gustafson, Nathaniel D Daw

“…Reinforcement learning (RL) provides an influential characterization of the brain's mechanisms for learning to make advantageous choices. An important problem, though, is how complex tasks can be represented in a way that enables efficient learning. …”
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AUDIT COMMITTEE AS A MODERATOR ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVERSITYINBOARD AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING OF LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Salvation Joshua Selven, Timkat Nanmak Peter, Gong Chai Deme, Joshua Rinarimam

“…Also, encourage regulators to regularly review corporate governance codes to strengthen diversity provisions for more credible stakeholder reporting. …”
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Perceptions of Academic Core Teachers and Career and Technical Educators on a Career and Technical Campus by Julie A. Patterson, MA, Ed.D

“…However, the campus’ faculty perceived that if combined, the components of each educational realm have the potential to make a positive impact on student achievement and real-world experience. …”
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Investigation on the dynamics of Z-pinch in discharge-produced plasma sources via two-dimensional MHD simulations by Yanxia Xu, Make Ying, Xuanyu Yuanhua, Jianhui Zhou, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Guanxin Huang, Benkun Lv, Haonan Zhang, Jiangwei Li, Zongqiang Yu, Yang Yang, Yue Cheng, Xijun Li

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Plasma cytokine levels and PCOS risk: Mendelian randomization analysis reveals IL6R as a preventive factor by Xiaopei Li, Yan Li, Bumei Zhang, Jianmei Wang, Yang Yang, Yongrui Du

“…Finally, systematical Mendelian randomization analysis between healthy lifestyle factors and PCOS-related proteins was conducted to identify which proteins could act as interventional targets by lifestyle changes. Results In our investigation, we performed Mendelian randomization analysis on 33 cytokines in relation to PCOS using data from the deCODE and the Fenland. …”
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Western Asian and Northern African residential building stocks: archetype analysis by Sahin Akin, Aida Eghbali, Chibuikem Nwagwu, Edgar Hertwich

“…The findings emphasize the urgent need for targeted policies that focus on reducing energy use in residential buildings and for incorporating targets into nationally determined contributions, particularly in energy-intensive countries such as Qatar and Kuwait. …”
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How equitable is digital rehabilitation for people after stroke? A systematic review using an equity approach by Rachel C. Stockley, Yasemin Hirst, Chantelle Hayes, Kimberley E. Watkins, Peter C. Goodwin

“…There were no significant differences in reporting by technology used, target of the intervention (upper or lower limb), sample size, location, number of comparison groups and sample size. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators to Medicines Use in Patients With Vision Impairment: A Theory‐Informed Qualitative Study of Patients and Caregivers by Basma Y. Kentab, Heather E. Barry, Sinaa A. Al‐Aqeel, Carmel M. Hughes

“…Interviews explored the barriers/facilitators to obtaining and taking medicines (i.e. the target behaviours). Data were analysed using the framework method and content analysis. …”
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To What Extent Do Online News Platforms Frame Environmental Issues? A Content News Analysis In Indonesia's Dompu Maize Development Program by Baskoro Wicaksono, Al Fauzi Rahmat, Fajar Rahmanto, M. Rafi, Lóránt Dénes Dávid

“…Then, the data analysis tool uses NVivo 12 Plus to code the data and distribute terms and words that correlate with the framing of online news. …”
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Prospects for optimizing the provision of medicines to pediatric patients based on the development of the pharmaceutical market in the segment of medicines for children by O. D. Nemyatykh, E. A. Kovaleva, I. A. Narkevich

“…Having analyzed the matrices of the national pediatric code formulary, covering 554 INNs, it turned out that within the pharmacotherapeutic groups J, L, N and P themselves, a decrease in WHO indicators of 16–57 % was recorded. …”
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How could 20-minute neighbourhoods impact health and health inequalities? A policy scoping review by Roxana Pollack, Jonathan R Olsen, Alison Heppenstall, Andreas Hoehn, Jennifer Boyd, Vicki Ponce Hardy, Jennifer Littlejohn, Amy Stevenson, Richard Mitchell, Petra Meier, Jonathan Stokes

“…These policy documents were our primary target for extraction, and we extracted and analysed by individual place. …”
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Siamese text classification network (SiamTCN) for multi-class multi-label information extraction of typhoon disasters from social media data by Zhi He, Chengle Zhou, Liwei Zou, Suhong Zhou, Xueqiang Zhao

“…The results demonstrate that the accuracy achieved by the proposed method is 0.9454, 0.9391, and 0.9422, respectively. The code for this paper is available at https://github.com/SiamTCN.…”
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