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In the context of healthcare in the United States, a pre-existing condition is a medical condition that started before a person's health insurance went into effect. Before 2014, some insurance policies would not cover expenses due to pre-existing conditions. These exclusions by the insurance industry were meant to cope with adverse selection by ...
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Adaptive reuse. An abandoned building in Washington, D.C. being converted into luxury condominiums. Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for. It is also known as recycling and conversion. [1] Adaptive reuse is an effective strategy for optimizing ...
Conditional sentence. Conditional sentences are natural language sentences that express that one thing is contingent on something else, e.g. "If it rains, the picnic will be cancelled." They are so called because the impact of the main clause of the sentence is conditional on the dependent clause. A full conditional thus contains two clauses: a ...
The international roughness index ( IRI) is the roughness index most commonly obtained from measured longitudinal road profiles. It is calculated using a quarter-car vehicle math model, whose response is accumulated to yield a roughness index with units of slope (in/mi, m/km, etc.). [ 1][ 2] Although a universal term, IRI is calculated per ...
A condition subsequent is a philosophical and legal term referring to a defined event which terminates a proposition or a contractual obligation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In contrast to a condition precedent , a condition subsequent brings the event (or obligation) to an end, rather than being necessary for to the event or obligation to occur.
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Initial condition. In mathematics and particularly in dynamic systems, an initial condition, in some contexts called a seed value, [1] : pp. 160 is a value of an evolving variable at some point in time designated as the initial time (typically denoted t = 0). For a system of order k (the number of time lags in discrete time, or the order of the ...