If AT&T hadn't advanced the upgrade eligibility time (in some cases by as much as six months), it would have been much more expensive for many of them to upgrade from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4 — and many likely wouldn't have.
Thanks to congressional budget fights in 2011, the federal government reduced eligibility for the grants, cutting eligibility time from 18 semesters to 12 and eliminating grants for summer study.
They assess patients for eligibility (time requirement of <5 minutes), inform patients about the study and ask them for informed consent (20 30 minutes) and collect the baseline data (20 30 minutes).
This survival analysis was restricted to the patients who became eligible for the first time between April 1, 2009 and May 14, 2010 to avoid selecting patients with longer eligibility times into the first quartile.
But as Nina Bernstein of The Times reported last week, there is little solid evidence that finger imaging actually deters welfare fraud, particularly when stringent work rules, shortened eligibility times and other antifraud measures are already pushing people off public assistance rolls at a brisk pace.
The members of Business Roundtable — more than 200 chief executives of America's leading companies employing nearly 16 million workers — have called on Congress and the administration to reform and strengthen Medicare, including by gradually increasing the eligibility age over time and letting beneficiaries choose between traditional Medicare and competing personal plans.
"We have discussed putting medulloblastomas on the eligibility list many times.
Table 2 depicts maternal age and race/ethnicity distributions among NCS births, in relation to the eligibility status at the time of consent.
Since some of the eligibility criteria involved a time limit (e.g., the use of specified drugs in the prior 30 days), eligibility screening was always administered on the day of study enrollment, regardless of whether such screening had been conducted previously.
Since June 2007, the eligibility condition for the part-time time-credit changed to 3, instead of 5, years of seniority with the current employer.
