Financial Incentives in the Long-Term Care Context: A First Look at Relevant Information

Analyzes variations in Medicare payment and coverage among hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospices; "bed-hold" and "reserved-bed" revenue streams; and other factors that may shape decisions to transfer residents to hospitals

Second Yamabe Constant on Riemannian Products

Let $(M^m,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold $(m\geq 2)$ of positive scalar curvature and $(N^n,h)$ any closed manifold. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the second Yamabe constant and the second $N-$Yamabe constant of $(M\times N,g+th)$ as $t$ goes to $+\infty$. We obtain that \lim_{t \to +\infty}Y^2(M\times N,[g+th])=2^{\frac{2}{m+n}}Y(M\times \re^n, [g+g_e]). If $n\geq 2$, we show the existence of nodal solutions of the Yamabe equation on $(M\times N,g+th)$ (provided $t$ large enough). When the scalar curvature of $(M,g)$ is constant, we prove that \lim_{t \to +\infty}Y^2_N(M\times N,g+th)=2^{\frac{2}{m+n}}Y_{\re^n}(M\times \re^n, g+g_e). Also we study the second Yamabe invariant and the second $N-$Yamabe invariant.Comment: Revised version. Minor changes. To appear in J. Geom. Phy

Developing an Analytical Method for Separating and Quantifying RNA Generated in In Vitro Transcription Reactions

The generation of run-off transcripts from in vitro transcription reactions is a useful technique in the study of transcription regulation. There are currently limited ways in which these run-off transcripts can be analyzed, and few that are truly quantitative. Our aim is to establish a method using ion-pair reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (IP RP HPLC) to analyze RNA transcripts from in vitro transcription reactions. We were able to demonstrate that we could recapitulate the separation of DNA based on size using our IP RP HPLC method. The application of this method was also able to effectively separate RNA based on size in the size range of 281 – 1908 bp. Using a simple in vitro transcription system with T7 RNA polymerase and a linear DNA template with a single promoter, we showed detection of the RNA run-off transcript in the size range demonstrated. We would like to apply this method to more complex in vitro transcription systems and demonstrate the ability to quantify RNA using IP RP HPLC

Prejudice, Humor and Alief: Comments on Robin Tapley’s “Humour, Beliefs, and Prejudice”

In her “Humor, Belief and Prejudice”, Robin Tapley concludes: "Racist/racial, sexist/gender humor is funny because we think it’s true. We know the beliefs exist in the laugher, there’s no way to philosophically maneuver around that." In what follows I’ll be trying to do some philosophical maneuvering of the sort she thinks hopeless in the quote above

Base Solution

Definition of the Smarandache function S(n): S(n) = the smallest positive integer such that S(n)! is divisible by n