• After passing the House earlier this year, the mental health parity bill sat waiting in the Senate - until last week, when it gained rapid forward momentum as the vehicle for the $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan. (npr.org)
  • So Wellstone and Domenici came back to try for full mental health parity in 2001, joined in the House by Rhode Island Democrat Patrick Kennedy and Minnesota Republican Jim Ramstad, both of whom had struggled with addiction issues. (npr.org)
  • On Sept. 25, the AAMC submitted comments in response to the proposed rule issued by the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury focused on strengthening enforcement of mental health parity and equity requirements as outlined in the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. (aamc.org)
  • The U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services are jointly requesting information to assist in developing regulations to implement the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). (counseling.org)
  • This past July, in the shadow of the passage of federal healthcare reform legislation, regulations under the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 went into effect for insurance plans that start or renew after July 1st. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
  • This paper investigates purchasing-power parity (PPP) since the late nineteenth century. (repec.org)
  • A Century of Purchasing-Power Parity ," NBER Working Papers 8012, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • A Century Of Purchasing-Power Parity ," The Review of Economics and Statistics , MIT Press, vol. 84(1), pages 139-150, February. (repec.org)
  • Understanding the empirical literature on purchasing power parity: the post-Bretton Woods era ," Journal of International Money and Finance , Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1-17, February. (repec.org)
  • Understanding the empirical literature on purchasing power parity: the post-Bretton Woods era ," International Finance Discussion Papers 465, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S. (repec.org)
  • Purchasing power parity : Another look at the long-run data ," Economics Letters , Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 339-344, April. (repec.org)
  • PCFP differs from an associated term called Purchasing Power Parity, or "PPP", that states that the price of a good in one country should equal the price of the good in another country after applying the applicable forex exchange rate. (forextraders.com)
  • We employ 23 years of administrative data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) coupled with a differences-in-differences design to investigate the potential spillover effects of parity laws to traffic safety. (nber.org)
  • In the US, the debate about when renewable energy will achieve "grid parity," or the ability to compete on equal footing with conventional sources of generation, generally assumes the continuation of at least some state and federal subsidies for wind power and utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV). (deloitte.com)
  • This analysis takes a different tack, purposefully excluding subsidies from the assessment of grid parity in order to provide a different, and perhaps more relevant, perspective on the competitiveness of the renewable energy sector. (deloitte.com)
  • This report examines the timing and conditions necessary for onshore wind and utility-scale solar PV to compete with conventional sources of generation on their own, or achieve "grid parity," without federal or state subsidies. (deloitte.com)
  • Renewable power generation reaching grid parity without federal or state subsidies is not imminent, except in certain markets possessing the most robust renewable resources and having relatively high wholesale power market prices. (deloitte.com)
  • Indeed, without dramatic cost declines and improvements in efficiency and utilization, it is unlikely that some parts of the US can reach grid parity without federal or state incentives within the next 10-15 years. (deloitte.com)
  • Onshore wind is more likely to reach grid parity before utility-scale solar PV, under a wide range of assumptions. (deloitte.com)
  • While it is widely accepted that the continuation of the federal PTC for wind and the federal ITC for solar would allow the renewable generation sector to reach grid parity faster, the extent of the acceleration-by as much as a decade-is more pronounced than one might expect. (deloitte.com)
  • Lowering the cost of capital-by adding project-level debt at the outset of the project for instance-advances grid parity timing by around five years across most markets for onshore wind and solar PV. (deloitte.com)
  • Whether or not these trends continue and to what degree will affect the timing of grid parity. (deloitte.com)
  • While it is difficult to include in an economic modeling exercise such as this, innovation should be acknowledged as a factor that could shorten the journey to grid parity to a great extent. (deloitte.com)
  • Forget Grid Parity. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Remember when everyone talked about grid parity? (greentechmedia.com)
  • This brings us to the second reason that the metric of grid parity isn't used very often: It's a moving target. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Consequently, attention is shifting from grid parity to market design. (greentechmedia.com)
  • In November, she'll give advice to MAKERS members on how to make a significant and actionable pledge toward gender parity - something all board members will do at the annual MAKERS Conference in LA in February 2020. (mckinsey.com)
  • Talent agency CAA has committed to achieving 50-50 gender parity by 2020 in the areas of management and board of directors. (thewrap.com)
  • The progress achieved in recent years has now led Sangster to expect that at least one leading school will reach gender parity within three years by 2020. (poetsandquants.com)
  • Robert Reiss: Is there a relationship between gender parity and performance? (forbes.com)
  • Absolutely, there is evidence gender parity improves performance. (forbes.com)
  • Speaking specifically about gender parity, there are many studies that show a positive correlation. (forbes.com)
  • Gender parity is a result of both positive and negative influences. (forbes.com)
  • My experience in Spanish-speaking Latin America filled me with passion for driving gender parity within our firm and pride for how much I'd helped accomplish. (mckinsey.com)
  • Global gender parity in less than 131 years? (weforum.org)
  • This story is part of Work in Progress, The Globe's look at the global struggle for gender parity. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • This progress demonstrates that gender parity is not a pipe dream," says Sangster, who joked that her more pessimistic prediction six years ago occurred because she had done her earlier interview on two hours of sleep. (poetsandquants.com)
  • Schools are taking it very seriously and they want to see this milestone of gender parity reached. (poetsandquants.com)
  • This document reports on progress in meeting the most recent objectives, namely, gender parity for professional and higher graded categories and, as a means of achieving that target, a 50% recruitment threshold (i.e. 50% of new appointments to the professional categories should be women) by 2002. (who.int)
  • At current female recruitment and promotion rates, the gender parity target set by the Member States cannot be met in the foreseeable future (see Annex 4). (who.int)
  • C a 60% recruitment threshold for women in the professional and higher graded categories has been established, which will enable gender parity to be achieved by 2010, assuming current attrition rates. (who.int)
  • MSUs are responsible for actively promoting and supporting cluster efforts to reach such targets, in particular by assisting managers in locating qualified female candidates and ensuring that gender parity considerations are fully taken into account by selection panels. (who.int)
  • The last time the euro was at parity with the dollar was 20 years ago in November 2002. (bruegel.org)
  • Today's Indigenous employment parity announcement is the latest stage in Commonwealth Bank's Indigenous Career Program, which was first formally launched in 2002. (commbank.com.au)
  • In 2002 NZEI negotiated pay parity for the country's 1790 kindergarten teachers. (ei-ie.org)
  • She pointed him to the appropriate references, and he and his collaborator Chen Ning Yang pored through them to determine that their crazy idea had not, in fact, been ruled out: that the weak interaction did not need to respect parity symmetry. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Parity" is the jargon term for a special symmetry in space, and up until 1955 or so, everybody believed that it was an absolute physical law: that switching the signs of all the coordinates describing a physical system should not change its behavior. (scienceblogs.com)
  • These findings show that the properties of a phase-coherent system can be significantly altered by the nanostructure symmetry and its interplay with wave function parity. (lu.se)
  • The Australian dollar is unlikely to appreciate further in 2011 and may even fall after a stellar year in which it hit parity with the US currency after 27 years. (smh.com.au)
  • Commonwealth Bank has today announced it will significantly raise the number of Indigenous Australians it employs, with a stated aim of achieving Indigenous employment parity within 10 years. (commbank.com.au)
  • Last week, ICM announced that it hopes to add at least 10 additional female partners in the next two years to achieve parity. (thewrap.com)
  • As the trade deadline approaches, I have had this theory for years that the reason it does not live up to the hype is because there aren't enough sellers due to the parity-driven league. (yahoo.com)
  • We included 2,313 postmenopausal women in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis , free of clinical CVD, whose parity and menopause age were ascertained by questionnaires and carotid plaque measured by ultrasound at baseline and 10 years later. (bvsalud.org)
  • The parity bit is added to the data bits on the transmit side, making the bit sum even or odd. (itwissen.info)
  • And while progress and parity are not entirely absent, there are still disturbing trends that indicate we (or our systems) remain fettered to a collective primeval intellect. (sundance.org)
  • Just before the start of the current Congress, several mental health groups won the support of employers and health insurers - in part, by showing that similar parity laws at the state level didn't break the bank. (npr.org)
  • In this study, we investigate whether state-specific parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the added benefit of reducing traffic fatalities. (nber.org)
  • Parity laws compel insurers to generously cover SUD treatment in private markets, thereby reducing the financial costs of and increasing access to treatment for beneficiaries. (nber.org)
  • We also find that passage of parity laws reduces fatal alcohol poisonings and psychoactive drug overdoses. (nber.org)
  • Previously circulated as "The Effects of Health Insurance Parity Laws for Substance Use Disorder Treatment on Traffic Fatalities: Evidence of Unintended Benefits. (nber.org)
  • A rep for CAA declined to say how many people are on the management committee or the board, and how many women would have to be added to achieve parity. (thewrap.com)
  • Their salaries have also been rising in yearly installments and they'll achieve full parity in July 2008. (ei-ie.org)
  • The new technology will enable Nissan to achieve price parity between its internal-combustion offerings and its e-Power hybrid offerings in 2026 and its full-electric and gasoline-burning vehicles in 2030, executives said at a briefing Wednesday. (autonews.com)
  • Nissan expects to achieve cost parity between its e-Power and internal-combustion offerings partly by adopting the new modular powertrain technology. (autonews.com)
  • ABSTRACT A study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia investigated the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and its predictors in a high-parity group of pregnant women (n = 633, 50.1% grand multiparas). (who.int)
  • Risk factors include prior UTIs, pre-existing diabetes, increased parity, and low socioeconomic status. (medscape.com)
  • NHL: Will lack of parity lead to more trades? (yahoo.com)
  • Between now and into the early months of next year, you will see the Aussie bopping up and down around parity,' he said. (smh.com.au)
  • Since then their salaries have been rising each year and in July they'll reach full parity with primary and secondary teachers. (ei-ie.org)
  • To belabor the point, since it seems utterly necessary with each year of disappointing parity in film, we'll take a look at 10 films from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival that were directed by women. (sundance.org)
  • The first of its 37 points and demands calls for parity in representation in the art world, from museum positions to solo shows to institutional awards like the national Prize of Honour-given to only five women since it was launched in 1911 (versus 92 men). (theartnewspaper.com)
  • Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow? (slideshare.net)
  • Similar to Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow? (slideshare.net)
  • Significant linear trends were observed in the associations between PFOS and EtFOSAA with SHBG across parity (Ps trend ≤ 0.01), with generally inverse associations among nulliparous women but positive associations among women with 3+ births. (cdc.gov)
  • Parity problems are widely used as benchmark problems in genetic programming but inherited from the artificial neural network community. (wikipedia.org)
  • Put-Call-Forward Parity, or "PCFP", is a theory that defines a relationship between a call option and a put option where the price has been established by the forward market. (forextraders.com)
  • Relationship of gallbladder disease to parity, obesity, and age. (cdc.gov)
  • quininer: I could get it to compile again a few times after switching to 'source=('git+https://github.com/paritytech/parity.git#branch=stable')' I'm not exactly sure what the problem was but I'm okay with running the latest stable git version - or switching to the built package. (archlinux.org)
  • Abnormal uterine findings were de Recherche et d'Application en identified in 95.8% of patients attending hysteroscopy at GESHRTH. (who.int)
  • Their pay will begin rising in July and they will also reach parity in July 2008. (ei-ie.org)
  • However, 256GB SSDs will be moving close to price parity with mainstream HDDs in 2016, so the adoption of SSDs in the business notebook segment will rise. (networkworld.com)
  • You would normally detect an error in a single bit because the parity check bits are wrong for the corresponding row and column. (physicsforums.com)
  • A parity bit (PY) is a character discrete check bit used for error detection in parity checking. (itwissen.info)
  • Check bits for even and odd parity of encoded characters. (itwissen.info)
  • She and her husband had been planning a trip back there for some time, and were scheduled to leave in mid-1956, but after hearing of Lee and Yang's results, Wu scrapped the trip to do the parity violation experiment. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Look up parity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. (wikipedia.org)
  • fatal runtime error: allocator memory exhausted error: Could not compile parity. (archlinux.org)
  • If the received bit sum does not correspond to the specified parity - which must be even, for example - then a transmission error has occurred. (itwissen.info)
  • Our economy is so tightly woven in Asia, it's an important reason the Aussie is at parity. (smh.com.au)
  • Other than psychology, there is one more reason why breaking the euro/dollar parity is a worry for the euro area: it interferes with the ambition for the euro to become a global currency alongside the dollar. (bruegel.org)
  • Even parity is given when the added bit makes the total number of ones in a data unit even. (itwissen.info)
  • While the fundamental reasons for the Australian dollar's strength remain, analysts are divided as to whether the local currency can stay near parity with the US dollar as other currencies may gain as their economies recover. (smh.com.au)
  • Number parity - the categorization of numbers into odd and even - could be an even more complex task than arithmetic because of its abstract nature, so researchers weren't sure the bees would be able to pull it off. (syfy.com)
  • The notion of parity complex , introduced by Ross Street , is a notion of pasting diagram shape. (ncatlab.org)
  • Forward parity foreign exchange means the customer and ICBC sign a forward foreign exchange contract, in which delivery date, currency and exchange rate, and transaction direction and amount for multiple transactions are specified. (icbc.com.cn)
  • The company can lock future multiple exchange settlement or purchase prices in a one-off way through forward parity foreign exchange, thereby averting exchange rate risk. (icbc.com.cn)
  • Both delivery date and amount of forward parity foreign exchange can be customized. (icbc.com.cn)
  • 3. Continuous dynamic management: ICBC can regularly provide customers with evaluation reports on forward parity foreign exchange transaction, and provide subsequent dynamic management services according to the market quotations and their demands. (icbc.com.cn)
  • 2. Signing of the master agreement: To apply for the forward parity foreign exchange business, the customer must sign related business agreements with ICBC. (icbc.com.cn)
  • Solution: the customer intends to conduct forward parity foreign exchange transaction with ICBC at the agreed delivery exchange rate of 91.10. (icbc.com.cn)
  • What is Put-Call-Forward Parity? (forextraders.com)
  • Rather the current parity has a lot more to do with the dollar appreciating rather than the euro falling. (bruegel.org)
  • Diagnosis and appropriate correction of intrauterine anomalies are considered et d'Application en Chirurgie essential in order to increase chances of conception. (who.int)
  • NZEI believes all qualified and registered teachers in the early childhood education sector should have pay parity," says Irene Cooper. (ei-ie.org)
  • Assist countries to increase parity in schools through cash transfers and the payment of school fees (both conditional and unconditional). (cfr.org)
  • EI affiliate NZEI Te Riu Roa and the New Zealand Childcare Association/Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa have negotiated pay parity with principals and deputy principals in primary schools for more than 400 teachers in leadership positions in 181 early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand. (ei-ie.org)
  • Now more than 400 teachers, who have leadership position in those consenting parties' centres, have gained pay parity with principals and deputy principals in primary schools. (ei-ie.org)
  • Here, a π-phase shift can be introduced in the Aharonov-Bohm relation by controlling the relative orbital parity using an electric field. (lu.se)