Abstract: Provided herein is a potassium-binding polymer prepared by polymerization reaction of a monomer and a crosslinking agent, wherein the monomer is the compound of formula (V), the crosslinking agent is the compound of formula (VI), and/or the compound of formula (VII), wherein the variables are as defined in the specification; to the use thereof for treating or preventing hyperkalemia.

Abstract: A low-voltage high-speed programmable equalization circuit includes a gain boosting amplifier stage, a CML differential amplifier stage, and an emitter follower. An input terminal of the gain boosting amplifier stage serves as an input terminal of the equalization circuit. An output terminal of the gain boosting amplifier stage is connected to an input terminal of the CML differential amplifier stage. An output terminal of the CML differential amplifier stage is connected to an input terminal of the emitter follower. An output terminal of the emitter follower serves as an output terminal of the equalization circuit.

Abstract: A balancing circuit which may compensate for bandwidth attenuation introduced by interference between signals includes an amplifying circuit, a rising edge detection circuit and/or a falling edge detection circuit. By means of detecting the rising/falling edge of an original signal, the resulting pulse signal contains the phase information of a single “0” bit and a single “1” bit in the original signal, thus the phase of a rising edge or the phase of a falling edge of the original signal may be compensated respectively, so as to compensate for the high-frequency attenuation caused by interference between signals.

Abstract: A low-voltage high-speed programmable equalization circuit includes a gain boosting amplifier stage, a CML differential amplifier stage, and an emitter follower. An input terminal of the gain boosting amplifier stage serves as an input terminal of the equalization circuit. An output terminal of the gain boosting amplifier stage is connected to an input terminal of the CML differential amplifier stage. An output terminal of the CIVIL differential amplifier stage is connected to an input terminal of the emitter follower. An output terminal of the emitter follower serves as an output terminal of the equalization circuit.

Abstract: A balancing circuit which may compensate for bandwidth attenuation introduced by interference between signals includes an amplifying circuit, a rising edge detection circuit and/or a falling edge detection circuit. By means of detecting the rising/falling edge of an original signal, the resulting pulse signal contains the phase information of a single “0” bit and a single “1” bit in the original signal, thus the phase of a rising edge or the phase of a falling edge of the original signal may be compensated respectively, so as to compensate for the high-frequency attenuation caused by interference between signals.

Abstract: A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for generating polygons within a geographic region that satisfy a query are disclosed. For example, the method extracts a plurality of nodes, a plurality of service providers and information associated with the plurality of nodes and the plurality of service providers of the geographic region from a geographic data source, creates a node table based on the information that was extracted, receives the query for one or more nodes having a predefined number of service providers within a travel budget, determines the one or more nodes from the node table that satisfy the query, and generates one or more generate polygons around the one or more nodes that satisfy the query within the geographic region.

Abstract: A method of evaluating managed care organizations (MCOs) includes acquiring medical data associated with patients' healthcare encounters with the MCOs, calculating a health risk score of a subpopulation using patient characteristic data included in the medical data, providing encounter data included in the medical data and the health risk score as input to analytic processes that track services provided by the MCOs, and generating a risk-adjusted performance metric of the MCOs by the analytic processes. The risk-adjusted performance metrics relate to categories of concern. The method further includes generating a standardized score for each of the risk-adjusted performance metrics based on a comparison of the subpopulation with an entire population, assigning a weight to each of the standardized scores based on an importance level of each category of concern, and generating a final score corresponding to a performance category for each of the MCOs based on the standardized scores.

Abstract: A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for generating polygons within a geographic region that satisfy a query are disclosed. For example, the method extracts a plurality of nodes, a plurality of service providers and information associated with the plurality of nodes and the plurality of service providers of the geographic region from a geographic data source, creates a node table based on the information that was extracted, receives the query for one or more nodes having a predefined number of service providers within a travel budget, determines the one or more nodes from the node table that satisfy the query, and generates one or more generate polygons around the one or more nodes that satisfy the query within the geographic region.

Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.

Abstract: A computer system configured to determine healthcare accessibility in a geographic region includes a memory storing a computer program, and a processor configured to execute the computer program. The computer program is configured to determine an expected level of care necessary for each member in the geographic region relating to a medical service type using member demographic data, aggregate the expected level of care necessary for each member to determine a total level of demand of the medical service type, and construct a ball tree representation indicating the healthcare accessibility for the medical service type on a display in real-time.

Abstract: A computer system configured to improve health outcomes and reduce medical service costs includes a memory storing a computer program and a processor that executes the computer program. The computer program receives a medical inquiry, extracts a keyword using natural language processing (NLP), selects a category of concern indicated by the medical inquiry from a library using the keyword, determines leading factors contributing to the category of concern based on a statistical model analysis, selects analytic modules from a library that receive at least one of the leading factors as an input parameter or produce at least one of the leading factors as an output parameter, and generates a recommendation including a listing of the selected analytic modules and/or a constructed workflow including at least two of the selected analytic modules chained together via respective input parameters and output parameters of the at least two selected analytic modules.

Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.

Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.

Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.

Abstract: A system and method for automating analytic processes to improve health outcomes and manage healthcare costs. Data associated with healthcare encounters with managed care organizations (MCOs) is acquired. Findings, predictions, and recommendations for tracking services provided by the MCOs are identified with analytic flows that are based on the data. Relations between the services provided by the MCOs and the healthcare encounters are identified. Utilization statistics are extracted from the data with the analytic processes. Information from the utilization statistics relevant to the healthcare encounters is output.

Abstract: A fluid level sensor is configured for identifying a fluid level in a small volume reservoir, such as a fluid reservoir in an ejector head. The reservoir includes a plurality of vertically arranged chambers. A plurality of piezoelectric transducers is distributed over the chambers in a one-to-one correspondence. At least one electrical conductor is electrically connected to each piezoelectric transducer in the plurality of piezoelectric transducers to enable each piezoelectric sensor to receive an electrical signal to a portion of a wall of the chamber to produce an acoustical wave in the chamber and to transmit an electrical signal from each piezoelectric transducer in response to a fluctuating pressure on each piezoelectric transducer produced by the acoustical wave in the chamber.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to characterizing a media curler for a printing. Test curls can be imposed on media having input curls with known input values using a media curler to be characterized. The media curler can impose the test curls based on curler settings of the media curler. Resulting output values from an interaction between the test curls and the input curls can be measured and the curler settings can be characterized based on the known input values and the resulting output values so that the media curler can be configured to respond to incoming media having a known input curl by applying curler setting to achieve a desired output curl.

Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for routing a call using a hybrid call routing scheme are disclosed. For example, the method receives a call for a customer agent at a call center, identifies a list of available customer agents, calculates a hybrid score for each one of the available customer agents, wherein the hybrid score is based upon a combination of a longest-idle-agent routing parameter, a performance based routing parameter and a tuning parameter, selects a customer agent from the list of the available customer agents having a highest hybrid score and routes, by the processor, the call to the customer agent that is selected.

Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for routing a call using a hybrid call routing scheme are disclosed. For example, the method receives a call for a customer agent at a call center, identifies a list of available customer agents, calculates a hybrid score for each one of the available customer agents, wherein the hybrid score is based upon a combination of a longest-idle-agent routing parameter, a performance based routing parameter and a tuning parameter, selects a customer agent from the list of the available customer agents having a highest hybrid score and routes, by the processor, the call to the customer agent that is selected.

Abstract: A method of adjusting labor capacity in a print production environment may include receiving, by a computing device, a realized demand value for a print production environment and determining that the realized demand value exceeds a total labor capacity associated with one or more workers in the print production environment. The method may include, in response to determining that the realized demand value exceeds the total labor capacity associated with the print production environment, determining one or more updated compensation rates for the one or more workers, determining one or more production parameters corresponding to each of the updated compensation rates, presenting the determined updated compensation rates and corresponding production parameters to a user, receiving a selection of an updated compensation rate from the presented compensation rates, and communicating the selected updated compensation rate to the one or more workers.