COMPARISON OF CODING SCHEMAS FOR RURAL-URBAN DESIGNATIONS WITH NEW YORK STATE COUNTIES AND BIRTH OUTCOMES AS EXEMPLARS

Comparison of Coding Schemas for Rural-Urban Designations with New York State Counties and Birth Outcomes as Exemplars

Purpose The purposes of this article are to provide background information on the agencies responsible for the development of rural coding schemas at the county level, to explain the types of codes and the definitions of terms included in the codes, and to provide a concise table that presents the assigned codes for each county in New York State.Fi

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Improving PV Resilience by Dynamic Reconfiguration in Distribution Grids: Problem Complexity and Computation Requirements

The dissemination of low-carbon technologies, such as urban photovoltaic distributed generation, imposes new challenges to the operation of distribution grids.Distributed generation may introduce significant net-load asymmetries between feeders in the course of the day, resulting in higher losses.The dynamic reconfiguration of the grid could mitiga

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A unique rhinologic manifestation of multiple myeloma

Objectives: To describe unusual vascular lesions in the nasal mucosa of a patient with multiple myeloma (MM), presenting with recurrent epistaxis.Materials and Methods: An extensive literature review was done looking for previous reports describing epistaxis secondary to nasal mucosa abnormalities V Console in patients with MM.Medical records of a

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