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The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a US federal government program created in 1992 that requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to eligible health care organizations and covered entities at significantly reduced prices.
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures .
The Porticos of Octavia and Philippus in Gismondi's model at the Museum of Roman Civilization. The Porticus Octavia (Latin for the "Octavian Portico"), also known as the Portico of Octavius, was a portico in ancient Rome built by Gnaeus Octavius in 168 BC to commemorate his capture of Perseus of Macedonia during the Third Macedonian War. [1]
Main gate The Porticus Octaviae behind the Theater of Marcellus in Gismondi's model, Museum of Roman Civilization. After celebrating his triumph for his 146 BC victory at Scarpheia during the Achaean War, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus constructed a portico around M. Aemilius Lepidus's Temple of Juno Regina, near the Circus Flaminius in the southern Campus Martius and erected a new ...
The Stoa Poikile (Ancient Greek: ἡ ποικίλη στοά, hē poikílē stoá) or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens.
The cryptoportico is a semi-subterranean gallery whose vaulting supports portico structures aboveground and which is lit from openings at the tops of its arches. On sloping sites the open side of a cryptoporticus is often partially at ground level and supports a structure such as a forum or Roman villa, in which case it served as basis villae.
The portico is the focal point in the center with loggias used at each side of the structure as a corridor. In architecture, a loggia (/ ˈ l oʊ dʒ (i) ə / LOH-j(ee-)ə, usually UK: / ˈ l ɒ dʒ (i) ə / LOJ-(ee-)ə, Italian:) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, often on an upper level, sometimes on the ground level of a building.
The peripteros can be a portico, a kiosk, or a chapel. If it is made up of four columns, it is a tetrastyle; of six, hexastyle; of eight, octastyle; of ten, decastyle; and of twelve, dodecastyle. [1] If the columns are fitted into the wall instead of standing alone, the building is a pseudoperipteros. [1] [3]