The Out-Front Western Region: An Overview

This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network ---- with 36 states and 61 researchers ---- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.This first "Special Analysis Report" focuses on the Western region, which has the largest number of states -- six out of thirteen -- that are affirmatively implementing the Affordable Care Act. That is, they have state-administered health insurance exchanges and have expanded Medicaid as authorized under the law. Altogether, there are eleven states in the Western region of the contiguous states, and nine of them are in our sample. This report describes the policy setting and goal alignment of all nine Western sample states, with emphasis on five states -- California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Nevada -- that are clearly out front as ACA-affirming states. New Mexico is also an affirming ACA state, although its exchange will not be state run until 2014. Arizona and Idaho occupy an "In-Between" category; that is, in between affirming and oppositional. Arizona rejected the state-run exchange option but accepted Medicaid expansion. Idaho so far has done the opposite, accepting the state-run exchange option while tabling Medicaid expansion. Utah is the one fully oppositional state in our sample, choosing in 2013 not to run its exchange or expand Medicaid

Quasi-Einstein metrics on hypersurface families

We construct quasi-Einstein metrics on some hypersurface families. The hypersurfaces are circle bundles over the product of Fano, K\"ahler-Einstein manifolds. The quasi-Einstein metrics are related to various gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons constructed by Dancer and Wang and some Hermitian, non-K\"ahler, Einstein metrics constructed by Wang and Wang on the same manifolds.Comment: 11 pages, v2 expanded and references added. To appear in J. Geom. Phy

On the linear stability of K\"ahler-Ricci solitons

This is a short note proving that K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with $\dim H^{(1,1)}(M)\ge 2$ are linearly unstable. This extends the results of Cao-Hamilton-Ilmanen in the K\"ahler-Einstein case.Comment: 11 pages; typos corrected, presentation improved and references added in v.

Predictions for neutral K and B meson physics

Using supersymmetric grand unified theories, we have recently invented a framework which allows the prediction of three quark masses, two of the parameters of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix and tan $\beta$, the ratio of the two vevs. These predictions are used to calculate $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'$ in the kaon system, B meson mass mixing and the size of CP asymmetries in the decays of neutral B mesons to explicit final states of given CP.Comment: 10 pages no figure. LBL3143

Arizona: Round 1 - State-Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.A number of decisions helped set the stage for Arizona's implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These decisions and the dynamics that led to them reflect a complex mix of intergovernmental political calculation and pragmatic public policy, past and present, which frame the state's capacity for implementing ACA in Arizona

Codificación y descodificación en el discurso televisivo

This legendary article puts for the first time in the centre of the communication' s debate the asymmetry between the process of encoding and decoding in emission and reception in massive communication. Analysing how denotative significations can have different functions and they can hide some aspects to each audience, and how connotative significance have broad ideological, social and cultural aspects that are important to be competent about to understand the messages, the author gives as TV examples and alerts about the danger of developing a study of communication too for malist, but also recommends the necessity of distinctions between the different pro cess of expression and interpretation of messages.Este legendario texto puso por primera vez en el centro del debate sobre comunicación la cuestión de la asimetría en los procesos de codificación y descodificación en las posiciones de emisores y receptores en la comunicación de masas. Analizando cómo los significados denotados tienen muy diversas funciones y pueden ocultar unos de otros los aspectos para cada audiencia, y cómo los significados connotativos se extienden en aspectos ideológicos, sociales y culturales que deben entenderse para comprender los mensajes, el autor proporciona ejemplos de televisión y alerta sobre el peligro del excesivo formalismo en el estudio de la comunicación de masas, pero recomienda también hacer distinciones precisas en los diferentes procesos expresivos e interpretativos de los mensajes comunicativos