USE OF SELECTED AMBULATORY DENTAL SERVICES IN TAIWAN BEFORE AND AFTER GLOBAL BUDGETING: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY TO IDENTIFY TRENDS IN HOSPITAL AND CLINIC-BASED SERVICES

Abstract Background The Taiwan rico reserve clarinet mouthpiece government adopted National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, providing universal health care to all citizens.It was financed by mandatory premium contributions made by employers, employees, and the government.Since then, the government has faced increasing challenges to control NHI expe

This paper investigates the stability of a class of quaternion-valued neural networks (QVNNs) with discrete and distributed delays.By decomposing the QVNN and forming an equivalent real-valued vector-matrix differential equation (RVVDE), based on the archstone pets Lyapunov theory and some matrix inequalities, some sufficient conditions are derived

Renal involvement is rare in systemic sarcoidosis.Among renal manifestations, tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) is the most commonly reported finding.We conducted the current study to investigate the clinical, rs808br laboratory, and histological features and to analyze the outcome of TIN due to sarcoidosis.We present a retrospective, single-cente

Abstract Breast cancer, caused by uncontrolled cell growth in milk ducts or lobules, has the highest mortality rate among women worldwide, with Asia reporting the most deaths.Early detection improves survival rates and reduces treatment costs.This study aims to develop a feature selection-based classifier to enhance breast cancer prediction, using