Critical Access Hospitals and Retail Activity: an Empirical Analysis

This paper takes an empirical approach to determining the effect that a critical access hospital (CAH) has on local retail activity. Previous research on the relationship between hospitals and economic development has primarily focused on single-case, multiplier oriented analysis. The positive empirical results provide additional evidence on the far-reaching economic development impacts of CAHs. The results also emphasize the importance of continued support for these rural institutions, including federal and state subsidies.Critical Access Hospital, retail, economic impact, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Health Economics and Policy, R11, I18,

Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future

Booklet handout distributed at the VSMF Symposium held at the Unilever Centre on 2011-01-17The event looks forward. Scholarship (universities, research, teaching, publishing) has been slow to take up the opportunities of this digital century. This is an opportunity to identify and build the future.EPSRC (Pathways to Impact Award). Unilever plc (Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Ethics and Legal Education

The submission of the report by Brent Cotter QC and Christopher Roper on Education and Training in Ethics and Professional Responsibility to the New Zealand Law Society in 1994 highlighted the need for a concerted effort to inculcate ethical know-how into the profession at all stages of their education and practice. In this article Professor Brooks surveys the place of ethics in law teaching today and ponders the many problems surrounding the teaching of ethics in the university environment. He argues that the teaching of ethics needs to focus on the process and context of ethics rather than focussing on the rule based modfel which some commentators advocate

Are coordinate representations and structural descriptions mediated in neurologically dissociable visual recognition systems?

The purpose of this dissertation was to describe and test a framework (the coordinate relations hypothesis) for understanding the types of shape representations and recognition tasks that are mediated in dissociable neural subsystems. The results from Experiment 1 demonstrate that there is a right hemisphere advantage for recognizing upright animals, but that inverting animals eliminates the right hemisphere advantage for basic-level animal recognition. The results of Experiment 2 showed that there is a right hemisphere advantage for physically discriminating objects that differ only in their metric properties but that there is not a right hemisphere advantage for objects that can be discriminated using a structural description. Experiment 3 tested whether showing the metric change objects at different orientations eliminates the right hemisphere advantage for the metric change trials. Experiment 4 was designed to investigate the effects of metric vs. geon changes in priming. Unfortunately, the results of Experiments 3 and 4 were inconclusive (possibly due to a lack of statistical power). Although the results of Experiments 3 and 4 were inconclusive, Experiments 1 and 2 provide strong evidence for the coordinate relations hypothesis and are inconsistent with other current hypotheses regarding the neural subsystems for visual recognition. The results thus suggest that one subsystem mediates structural description representations and subserves any recognition tasks that can be performed using a structural description and the other subsystem mediates coordinate relations representations, and mediates recognition tasks that require a coordinate relations representation