• In Senate Report No.105-300, the Senate Appropriations Committee observed, "The Committee has recently received from the National Advisory Mental Health Council [NAMHC] the report requested in its fiscal year 1998 appropriations report and notes the impact of managed care on keeping costs of parity at a low level. (nih.gov)
  • The court allowed the state a phase-in period, reaching parity for the first time in the 1997-1998 school year. (schoolfunding.info)
  • The data for 1996, 1997 and 1998 refer to Belgium only. (who.int)
  • Source for 1996, 1997 and 1998 is the Tobacco Institute, Zagreb. (who.int)
  • The 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (which is now being considered for reauthorization) appears to have accelerated the passage of State-level parity legislation. (nih.gov)
  • And in mid-1999, President Clinton announced that a parity-level benefit would be implemented for 8.7 million beneficiaries of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHB) beginning in calendar year 2001. (nih.gov)
  • purchasing power parity - $158.2 billion (1999 est. (photius.com)
  • Thirty-one of the 50 States have now passed some form of parity legislation, with benefits that range from limited to comprehensive. (nih.gov)
  • This form of parity was famously used to solve the mutilated chessboard problem: if two opposite corner squares are removed from a chessboard, then the remaining board cannot be covered by dominoes, because each domino covers one square of each parity and there are two more squares of one parity than of the other. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1995. " A Panel Project on Purchasing Power Parity: Mean Reversion Within and Between Countries ," Center for International and Development Economics Research (CIDER) Working Papers C95-052, University of California at Berkeley. (repec.org)
  • This report includes 542 (302 nonexposed, 240 benzene -exposed) nonsmoking and nondrinking mothers of singleton live births at Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Corporation between June 1995 and June 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • Epidemiologic data suggest that parity increases risk of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer and that breastfeeding attenuates this association. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The mean parity and gravidity were 2.4 ± 1.9 and 2.9 ± 1.9, respectively. (scirp.org)
  • Gestationaldiabetesmellitus(GDM) apredictorofGDMinthishigh-parity onage,gravidity,parityandhistoryof isdefinedascarbohydrateintolerance communityofpregnantwomen. (who.int)
  • 1997. Congener-specific effects of maternal PCB exposure on functional plasticity in cortical and hippocampal slices of rats. (cdc.gov)
  • Multiple linear regression models were used to estimate the associations of benzene exposure and genetic susceptibility with gestational age, adjusting for maternal age, education, parity, stress, passive smoking, prepregnancy weight and height, and infant's sex. (cdc.gov)
  • Is Maternal Parity an Independent Risk Factor for Birth Defects? (cdc.gov)
  • The environmental risk factors for NSCL/P include maternal use of medications such as antiepileptic agents or corticosteroids, smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy 15 , intrapartum interval 10 , parity 16 , folic acid deficiencies 17 and maternal and paternal age 5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Diet was assessed by food frequency questionnaires at baseline and in 1997 for 38 984 women, and intakes of calcium were estimated. (bmj.com)
  • We hypothesized heterogeneous associations between parity and breastfeeding and ER+ and ER− breast cancer risk, with inverse associations hypothesized between parity and ER+ disease risk and between breastfeeding and ER− disease risk, and a positive association between parity and ER− breast cancer subtypes among women who did not breastfeed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • and second, convergence in the performance of the different countries, assuring the stability of real bilateral exchange rate parities. (iadb.org)
  • However, collective agreement negotiations with the Graphic Communications International Union, begun in 1997, reached an impasse. (printcan.com)
  • We can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. (usacbi.org)
  • Partial Medicare reimbursement was first authorized by Congress in 1997 . (vsee.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)
  • The present study uses restricted-access data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to investigate whether intergenerational educational transmission varies by county-level demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for Hispanic Americans. (frontiersin.org)
  • In an earlier investigation of reproductive factors in the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS, NHSII), we observed an inverse association between breastfeeding and basal-like breast cancer, but did not investigate the combined effect of parity and breastfeeding [ 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • While commitment rates declined for all race/ethnicity groups since 1997, the commitment rate for Black youth and American Indian youth remained above the rate for white youth. (ojjdp.gov)
  • A recently updated simulation model estimates an approximately 1.4 percent increase in total health insurance premium costs when parity is implemented. (nih.gov)
  • By 1997, the BRFSS race-specific prevalence estimates had increased and remained above the Healthy People 2010 objective through 2006 (2). (cdc.gov)
  • What is the current status of parity legislation in the US? (nih.gov)
  • The authors argue that achieving wage parity could significantly mitigate the current HCC human resource crisis, support the overall sustainability of Ontario's healthcare system and improve patient outcomes. (longwoods.com)
  • The results, starting from an extremely low base, were striking - growth averaged 6% in 1988-2004 except during the short-lived drop caused by the Asian financial crisis beginning in 1997. (travelblog.org)
  • The implications of first-order risk aversion for asset market risk premiums ," Discussion Paper 1997-07, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. (repec.org)
  • There is renewed interest in the spectroscopy of heavy metal containing polar radical diatomic molecules because they provide a sensitive venue for detection of parity nonconservation (PNC) either from the determination of the electric dipole moment (EDM) {\textbf{56} } R3326, 1997. (osu.edu)
  • In addition, data from a large State show that total health care costs decreased after the implementation of parity. (nih.gov)
  • Data are not yet available to assess the impact of parity in these areas. (nih.gov)
  • Prospective data, particularly on the joint effects of higher parity and breastfeeding, are limited. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To our knowledge, there are no prospective data on the combined effects of parity and breastfeeding by molecular phenotype (e.g., luminal subtypes, HER2-enriched, basal-like). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Given intriguing, but inconsistent, prior results on the association between parity, breastfeeding, and breast cancer by subtype, and sparse prospective data on the combined effect of higher parity and breastfeeding, we examined these associations in the NHS and NHSII among almost 200,000 women. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, having disproved what was, until the late 1950s, considered a fundamental law of physics - the conservation of parity in weak interactions. (aps.org)
  • Blonigen (1997) publishes one of the most influential papers and suggests transferable assets being the most important factor behind this relationship. (grin.com)
  • Recently, DeMille \textit{et al} proposed using an odd isotopologue of barium monofluoride, $^{137}BaF$, to measure the nuclear spin-dependent parity non-conservation (NSD-PNC) effect resulting from the interaction of the anapole moment of $^{137}Ba$ with the unpaired electron of the $X^{2}\Sigma^{+}$ electronic state. (osu.edu)
  • Finally, the new 10-year bilateral healthcare funding agreements that the federal, provincial and territorial governments are currently announcing will not only provide significant new funding but also an opportunity to decisively address the long-standing issue of wage parity in Canada, once and for all. (longwoods.com)
  • A recent study with a large State database shows that when parity mental health benefits are introduced with managed care, an increased proportion of adults and children used some outpatient mental health services. (nih.gov)
  • In its 1994 and 1997 Abbott v. Burke decisions, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered "parity" funding, that is, state aid to bring per-pupil revenues in the Abbott districts up to the per-pupil expenditures in the state's 110 successful, suburban districts. (schoolfunding.info)
  • However, studies under non-parity conditions suggest that mental health services can decrease the amount of lost wages and reduce lost days from work and the number of disability claims. (nih.gov)
  • We propose that analysis of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the law of one price (LOOP) should explicitly take into account the possibility of ?commodity points? (cepr.org)
  • We further note how other healthcare systems that have wage parity have demonstrated that it is not a "nice to have" but an essential element of establishing a sustainable health human resources strategy. (longwoods.com)
  • A panel project on purchasing power parity: Mean reversion within and between countries ," Journal of International Economics , Elsevier, vol. 40(1-2), pages 209-224, February. (repec.org)
  • We're still far from our long-term goal of full gender parity. (hmc.edu)
  • Full gender parity? (hmc.edu)
  • In fact, 21 states as of April 2014 (including California and Texas) have passed full parity laws which require insurers (and sometimes that states' Medicaid plan) to reimburse providers for services provided via video conferencing on the same basis as they would for in-person consultation. (vsee.com)
  • A strong cascade of E2 transitions connecting negative parity states was found, Shell model calculations were performed and positive parity excited states were interpreted in terms of neutron-particle and proton-hole excitations with respect to the doubly magic N = Z = 50 core. (lu.se)
  • parn-i.cnf where n is the number of variables in the original parity learning problem and i is just the instance number. (ubc.ca)
  • Parity, mother's age, income, employment and educational levels had a significant influence on infant feeding practices. (who.int)
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Begen Request for Comments: 6015 Cisco Category: Standards Track October 2010 ISSN: 2070-1721 RTP Payload Format for 1-D Interleaved Parity Forward Error Correction (FEC) Abstract This document defines a new RTP payload format for the Forward Error Correction (FEC) that is generated by the 1-D interleaved parity code from a source media encapsulated in RTP. (ietf.org)
  • The 1-D interleaved parity code is a systematic code, where a number of repair symbols are generated from a set of source symbols and sent in a repair flow separate from the source flow that carries the source symbols. (ietf.org)
  • The 1-D interleaved parity code offers a good protection against bursty packet losses at a cost of reasonable complexity. (ietf.org)
  • Introduction This document extends the Forward Error Correction (FEC) header defined in [RFC2733] and uses this new FEC header for the FEC that is generated by the 1-D interleaved parity code from a source media encapsulated in RTP [RFC3550]. (ietf.org)
  • The type of the source media protected by the 1-D interleaved parity code can be audio, video, text, or application. (ietf.org)
  • Prices on parity memory, error-correcting code (ECC) memory, server memory, workstation memory, dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) and other specialty memory may vary. (microsoft.com)
  • Deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) appear to have half-lives of approximately four years. (repec.org)
  • The above definition of parity applies only to integer numbers, hence it cannot be applied to numbers like 1/2 or 4.201. (wikipedia.org)
  • See the section "Higher mathematics" below for some extensions of the notion of parity to a larger class of "numbers" or in other more general settings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even and odd numbers have opposite parities, e.g., 22 (even number) and 13 (odd number) have opposite parities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The situation is rather simple to describe for turn-based games, where positional pure strategies suffice to play optimally in games with parity objectives. (dagstuhl.de)
  • Recent research supports and expands earlier findings that implementing parity benefits results in minimal if any increase in total health care costs. (nih.gov)
  • Target-Setting Method 86 percent improvement (parity with adults without disabilities in 1997). (cdc.gov)
  • A Panel Project on Purchasing Power Parity: Mean Reversion Within and Between Countries ," CEPR Discussion Papers 1128, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. (repec.org)
  • Obstfeld, M and A Taylor (eds) (1997), "DP1672 Nonlinear Aspects of Goods-Market Arbitrage and Adjustment: Heckscher's Commodity Points Revisited", CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 1672. (cepr.org)
  • A Panel Project on Purchasing Power Parity: Mean Reversion Within and Between Countries ," NBER Working Papers 5006, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • Does implementing parity increase the total cost of health benefits? (nih.gov)
  • The negative parity band was well reproduced by the total routhian surface calculations. (lu.se)
  • World Values Survey cubriendo un total de 345,743 entrevistados en 96 países. (bvsalud.org)
  • The class of Boolean functions considered here is the set of all parity functions over a set of Boolean variables and subsets of those variables. (ubc.ca)
  • TracyvanCort ---- While it's not campus-wide, sex parity was achieved with the Class of '14 which will have a 49-51 ratio. (hmc.edu)
  • These instances are a propositional versions of parity learning problems. (ubc.ca)