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Improving Utah State University's Healthcare Plan, Aleece Blake
Improving Utah State University's Healthcare Plan, Aleece Blake
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Utah State University provides health insurance for 10,400 people (3,500 contracts). Employees of the university who qualify for this insurance have the option to pick one of 2 plans, Blue or White. Utah State essentially self-insures these plans, and Blue Cross Blue Shield administers them. This means that the university has a reserve set up to pay the medical claims of all of the people covered by these plans and bears most of the risk associated with providing this insurance. Some of the risk is transferred from the university to the covered individuals through deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. The rest …
Utah State University Global Assimilation Of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter Model Of The Ionosphere: Model Description And Validation, Ludger Scherliess, Robert W. Schunk, Jan Josef Sojka, Donald C. Thompson, Lie Zhu
Utah State University Global Assimilation Of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter Model Of The Ionosphere: Model Description And Validation, Ludger Scherliess, Robert W. Schunk, Jan Josef Sojka, Donald C. Thompson, Lie Zhu
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The Utah State University Gauss-Markov Kalman Filter (GMKF) was developed as part of the Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) program. The GMKF uses a physics-based model of the ionosphere and a Gauss-Markov Kalman filter as a basis for assimilating a diverse set of real-time (or near real-time) observations. The physics-based model is the Ionospheric Forecast Model (IFM), which accounts for five ion species and covers the E region, F region, and the topside from 90 to 1400 km altitude. Within the GMKF, the IFM derived ionospheric densities constitute a background density field on which perturbations are superimposed based on …