Adam Atherly, Bryan Dowd, Robert F. Coulam, Gery P. Guy,
... effect of the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) demonstrations on the rate of uninsured. The policy purpose of the HIFA demonstrations is to encourage "new comprehensive state approaches" that will increase the number of insured. HIFA interventions include changes in benefit packages, eligibility rules ... 2000 to 2007. The target populations for the HIFA waiver demonstrations consisted of individuals who were eligible for the HIFA waiver demonstrations in demonstration states.The estimation approach ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
2012 - Wiley | Health Services Research
Graham P. Krasan, Frederic G. Sauer, David Cutter, Monica M. Farley, Janet R. Gilsdorf, Scott J. Hultgren, Joseph W. St. Geme,
... mutagenesis of the H. influenzae HifB chaperone and HifA major pilus subunit at positions homologous to sites ... in HifB or at the penultimate tyrosine in HifA abolished formation of HifB–HifA periplasmic complexes, whereas mutations at the −14 glycine in HifA had no effect on HifB–HifA interactions but abrogated HifA oligomerization. To define further the constraints of the interaction between HifA and HifB, we examined the interchangeability of pilus ... components from H. influenzae type b strain Eagan ( hifA‐hifE Eag ) and the related H. influenzae biogroup ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
2000 - Wiley | Molecular Microbiology
Daniel L. Clemans, Carl F. Marrs, Richard Bauer, Mayurika Patel, Janet R. Gilsdorf,
... determine the similarity of these pili to hemagglutinating, HifA- and HifE-containing pili expressed by respiratory H. influenzae isolates. For this analysis, the presence of hifA and hifE and their gene products in NTHI ... these isolates was explored, and the role of HifA- and HifE-possessing pili in the adhesion of ... could they be enriched for hemagglutinating variants. Although hifA , which encodes the major structural subunit of hemagglutinating ... of the six biotype IV strains tested, neither HifA nor HifE (the gene products of hifA and ...
Tópico(s): Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
2001 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Adam Atherly, Kathleen Thiede Call, Robert F. Coulam, Bryan Dowd,
... and New Mexico Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability ( HIFA ) demonstrations. HIFA is an optional state Medicaid expansion targeted at ... research questions: What type of health insurance do HIFA enrollees self report in surveys? What are the ... type of health insurance coverage, if any, did HIFA enrollees have just prior to enrollment in the HIFA program? Among those with prior coverage, what prompted participation in the HIFA program? What type of health insurance, if any, would HIFA enrollees have in the absence of HIFA ? Methods ...
Tópico(s): Primary Care and Health Outcomes
2015 - Wiley | Health Services Research
Agung Endro Nugroho, Gina Kusumaramdani, Amalia Widyaninggar, Dian Prasetyo Anggoro, Suwidjiyo Pramono,
... n-hexane insoluble fraction of A. paniculata herb (HIFA) with other traditional medicines i.e. curcuminoids fraction ... compared to that of the single treatment of HIFA. The DM rats were induced by high-fructose- ... the high-fructose-fat-fed rats. Combination of HIFA and CFC showed a higher hypoglycaemic effect than that of the single treatment of HIFA. However, the hypoglycaemic effect of combination of HIFA and ESP was not more effective than that of the single treatment of HIFA. The combination HIFA-CFC is potential to develop ...
Tópico(s): Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
2014 - University of Putra Malaysia | International Food Research Journal
Daniel L. Clemans, Carl F. Marrs, Mayuri Patel, Michelle Duncan, Janet R. Gilsdorf,
... which polymerize to form pili, the pilin genes ( hifA ) of 26 type a to f and 16 ... Four further RFLP patterns were identified from published hifA sequences from five nontypeable H. influenzae strains. Two ... capsular and noncapsular types. Sequence analysis of selected hifA genes confirmed the 10 RFLP patterns and showed ... correlated with the groupings of strains based on hifA RFLP patterns. Those strains that show greater reactivity ... RFLP pattern (pattern 1). Sequence analysis of representative HifA pilins from typeable and nontypeable H. influenzae identified ...
Tópico(s): Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
1998 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Alisha S. Laraway, Carole P. Jennings,
... Services announced the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) Initiative. This initiative’s goal was to make ... income individuals faster and more streamlined. However, the HIFA initiative was introduced at a time when the ... 1115 waivers and continues with a discussion of HIFA waivers. An analysis of HIFA waivers is provided using John Kingdon’s policy ... on the current and future challenges confronting the HIFA initiative.
Tópico(s): Primary Care and Health Outcomes
2002 - SAGE Publishing | Policy Politics & Nursing Practice
Ian K. Townley, Courtney H. Babin, Taylor E. Murphy, Christopher M. Summa, B. Rees,
... of genes encoding the oxygen-dependent HIFα subunit ( HIFA ) in the ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Genomic analyses demonstrate that several lineages retain four paralogs of HIFA predicted from two rounds of genome duplication at ... evolution, broaden the known distribution of teleost-specific HIFA paralogs, and provide evidence for salmonid-specific HIFA duplicates. Evolution of the HIFA gene family is characterized by widespread episodic positive ... protein stability, protein–protein interactions, and transcriptional regulation. HIFA transcript abundance depends upon paralog, tissue, and fish ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
2022 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
K. S. Rajesh, S. Dash, Ragam Rajagopal,
... improved Firefly optimization Algorithm and Pattern Search technique (hIFA-PS) to tune the parameters of fuzzy aided ... the fireflies during the iteration process. The proposed hIFA-PS technique gets the benefits of FA's ... FA. To demonstrate the superiority of the proposed hIFA-PS algorithm results are compared with other soft ... structures are considered and a comparative study of hIFA-PS optimized I/PI/PID/Fuzzy aided PID ... conditions. It has been observed that the designed hIFA-PS based fuzzy logic PID controller performs satisfactorily ...
Tópico(s): Power System Optimization and Stability
2018 - Elsevier BV | Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
Martin A. Kubiet, Reuben Ramphal, Allan Weber, Arnold L. Smith,
... a mutation in the structural gene for pilin ( hifA ), a laboratory H. influenzae strain transformed with a ... from strain C54), antibodies raised against H. influenzae HifA, and Escherichia coli strains carrying a cloned type ... strain AM30) in these studies. All bacteria lacking HifA or the pilus gene cluster had decreased adherence ... influenzae to mucins, and Fab fragments of anti-HifA antibodies inhibited the adherence. E. coli strains carrying ...
Tópico(s): Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
2000 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Forien Geluk, Paul P. Eijk, S. Marieke van Ham, Henk M. Jansen, Loek van Alphen,
... strains had a fimbria gene cluster consisting of hifA to hifE inserted in the chromosome between purE ... The protein sequence of three ganglioside GM1-specific HifA adhesins consisted of conserved regions intermingled with regions of sequence diversity. hifA appeared to be flanked by intergenic regions that ... and inverted DNA repeats. Since noncoding DNA between hifA and purE has not been found in H. ...
Tópico(s): RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
1998 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
... in health facilities. The Healthcare Information For All (HIFA) expert working group on multilingualism has been leading debate around these issues on the HIFA discussion forums, which include more than 18 000 ... without any content in Portuguese. Discussions on the HIFA forum underline the importance and urgency of addressing ... a diverse audience, this action is particularly important. HIFA is ready to work with The Lancet Global ...
Tópico(s): Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
2018 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet Global Health
Licheng Sun, Yamin Zheng, Chuang Sun, Lei Huang,
... DM. This actuator-corresponding high-frequency aberration (AC-HIFA) could not be corrected effectively by the DM ... DM. In this paper, we presented the AC-HIFA in a stacked array piezoelectric (PZT) DM, which ... from a piece of BK7 glass, the AC-HIFA could be eliminated completely. In addition, the structural parameters' influences on the AC-HIFA were investigated in the simulation, which could help ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques
2018 - Optica Publishing Group | Optics Express
Mohamed Abdel‐Nasser, Karar Mahmoud, Matti Lehtonen,
... novel heterogeneous solar irradiance forecasting approach, so-called HIFA, is proposed in this article. Specifically, we propose ... the predictions of IFMs onto a consensus prediction. HIFA utilizes efficient deep recurrent neural networks, which can ... for building the IFMs. The results reveal that HIFA substantially improves the accuracy of solar irradiance forecasting ...
Tópico(s): Grey System Theory Applications
2021 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Produção Nacional
J.L.S. Bentes, KYIOSHI MATSUOKA,
... celular das células epidérmicas. Dentro da célula, a hifa de infecção deu origem a uma vesícula, que em seguida formou a hifa primária que se ramificou, originando a hifa secundária, que colonizou intra e intercelularmente a epiderme ...
Tópico(s): Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
2002 - Springer Nature | Fitopatologia Brasileira
Richard E. Baird, Sandra W. Woolfolk, C. E. Watson,
... black (Solenopsis richteri)/hybrid imported fire ant (BIFA/HIFA) mounds were obtained from four counties in northeast ... were selected due to high concentrations of BIFA/HIFA that were free from red imported fire ants ( ... their potential as biological control agents of BIFA/HIFA and RIFA that occur in Mississippi.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2007 - Eagle Hill Institute | Southeastern Naturalist
Teresa A. Coughlin, Sharon K. Long, John Graves, Alshadye Yemane,
... examination of ten Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) demonstrations, a major Medicaid initiative of the Bush ... estimate that 300,000 people were covered under HIFA demonstrations as of December 2005. Although this is ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Policy and Management
2006 - Project HOPE | Health Affairs
Joseph W. St. Geme, Jerome S. Pinkner, Graham P. Krasan, John E. Heuser, Esther Bullitt, Alex Smith, Scott J. Hultgren,
... a flexible two-stranded helical rod comprised of HifA and a short, thin, distal tip structure containing ... of immunoglobulin-like chaperones. HifB bound directly to HifA and HifD, forming HifB-HifA and HifB-HifD complexes, which were purified from ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical and Structural Characterization
1996 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
S. Marieke van Ham, L van Alphen, Frits R. Mooi, Jos P. M. van Putten,
... human eukaryotic cells. The contribution of the major (HifA) and putative minor (HifD and HifE) subunits of ... 1 fimbriae yielded recombinants expressing high amounts of HifA-containing H. influenzae fimbriae either with or without ... the adhesive domain resides in the major subunit, HifA. In H. influenzae itself, the minor subunits probably ...
Tópico(s): Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
1995 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Licheng Sun, Lei Huang, Yan Meng, Junbiao Fan, Yamin Zheng, Chuang Sun,
The dynamic high frequency aberration (HIFA) only emerges in the compensation process in adaptive optics (AO) systems. The static surface shape of a deformable mirror (DM), which ... cannot be used to figure out whether the HIFA exist or not. The dynamic HIFA of the DM, which has not been studied ... in this paper. The mechanism of the dynamic HIFA of the DM is presented in the simulation. ... surface shape and thus lead to the dynamic HIFA. The tilt mode of the DM is proposed ... different tilt conditions. In the experiment, the dynamic HIFA is identified and the tilt modes are exactly ...
Tópico(s): Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
2017 - Optica Publishing Group | Optics Express
Hefei Wen, Jason M. Hockenberry, Janet R. Cummings,
... expansions through the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) waivers. We find that HIFA-waiver expansion led to a sizeable reduction in ...
Tópico(s): Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
2017 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Public Economics
Aleša Kristan, Nataša Debeljak, Tanja Kunej,
... EPAS1 gene. Two other hypoxia-inducible factor alpha (HIFA) subunits, HIF1A and HIF3A, have not yet been ... data from genome browsers were used to obtain HIFA sequence variants associated with erythrocytosis and to locate ...
Tópico(s): High Altitude and Hypoxia
2019 - Wiley | European Journal Of Haematology
Licheng Sun, Yamin Zheng, Chuang Sun, Shibing Lin, Deen Wang, Lei Huang,
... paper, the print-through high-frequency aberration (PT-HIFA) that arises from adhesive curing and is corresponding ... DM. Meanwhile, experimental results show that the PT-HIFA has a great modulation on the laser intensity. This PT-HIFA could not be corrected effectively by the DM ... laser systems. In order to eliminate the PT-HIFA, we investigate the influence of the structural parameters on the PT-HIFA in a shear-joint DM through simulation and ... structural parameters have different influences on the PT-HIFA. In the experiment, by optimizing the structural parameters, ...
Tópico(s): Ocular and Laser Science Research
2019 - Optica Publishing Group | Optics Express
Wenjie Lv, Kaiqing Zhao, Shihao Ma, Lingkai Kong, Zhihong Dang, Jianqi Chen, Yanhong Zhang, Jun Hu,
... wastewater, a novel Hydrocyclone Intensified Filtration and Adsorption (HIFA) technology was developed to deeply remove Cr(III) ... the individual optimization of the operating conditions, this HIFA technology exhibited a superior performance in the treatment ... hazardous solid wastes were saved. Therefore, the proposed HIFA technology provided an environmentally sustainable approach and highlight ...
Tópico(s): Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cleaner Production
Aaron Cohen, Eran Vigoda‐Gadot,
... Aaron Cohen, Corresponding Author Aaron Cohen University of Hifa, Israel Requests for reprints should be send to ... by this authorEran Vigoda, Eran Vigoda University of Hifa, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author Aaron Cohen, Corresponding Author Aaron Cohen University of Hifa, Israel Requests for reprints should be send to ... by this authorEran Vigoda, Eran Vigoda University of Hifa, IsraelSearch for more papers by this author First ...
Tópico(s): Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
1998 - Wiley | Applied Psychology
Kirk W. McCrea, Wendy J. Watson, J R Gilsdorf, Carl F. Marrs,
... structural component (pilin), chaperone, and usher proteins (designated hifA, -B, and -C, respectively) have been identified previously. ... have predicted C-terminal amino acid homology to HifA, and mutations in either gene resulted in the ...
Tópico(s): Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
1994 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Richard Smith, Tracey Koehlmoos,
... and it has four global forums—HIFA2015, CHILD2015, HIFA-Portuguese, and HIFA-EVIPNet. Most of those who contribute to the ...
Tópico(s): Chronic Disease Management Strategies
2011 - BMJ | BMJ
S. Marieke van Ham, Loek van Alphen, Frits R. Mooi, Jos P. M. van Putten,
... the transcriptional level of two divergently orientated genes, hifA and hifB, encoding the major fimbrial subunit and the fimbrial chaperone, respectively. The hifA and hifB promoter regions were found to be ...
Tópico(s): Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
1993 - Cell Press | Cell
Marina Cerquetti, Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti, Giovanna Renna, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, M.L. Garlaschi, Paola Mastrantonio,
... to have a clonal spread. Occurrence of the hifA gene was found by PCR in 18% of ... generally expressed by nonencapsulated isolates when fimbrial gene hifA was present. Two nonencapsulated isolates not susceptible to ...
Tópico(s): Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
2000 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Beatriz Passerini de Rossi, Carlos García, Eliana Alcaraz, Mirta Franco,
... de Candida albicans, que inhibe la transición levadura-hifa. En este trabajo se describe el efecto antagónico ... de virulencia de C. albicans, la transición levadura-hifa y la formación de biofilms. Estos efectos pueden ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
2014 - Elsevier BV | Revista Argentina de Microbiología