Laws Affecting the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)

[Excerpt] The purpose of the report is to provide historical and background information that helps explain how FEHBP has evolved into the program it is today. This report focuses solely on changes made to FEHBP through legislative action. Policymakers may use this report to understand how Congress has interacted with FEHBP in the past, and to inform its future interactions with FEHBP. Specifically, the report includes short discussions of how Congress has effected and maintained policy changes to FEHBP by restricting the use of federal funds; changed the formula for determining the government’s share of FEHBP premiums; expanded eligibility for the program; and implemented policies that affect the relationship between Medicare and FEHBP. The Appendix includes detailed summaries of selected laws or provisions of laws that have directly amended or otherwise changed FEHBP

Alien Registration- Bailey, Ada L. (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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Poor infant feeding practices and high prevalence of malnutrition in urban slum child care centres in nairobi: a pilot study

Little is known about the style and quality of feeding and care provided in child day-care centres in slum areas. This study purposively sampled five day-care centres in Nairobi, Kenya, where anthropometric measurements were collected among 33 children aged 6–24 months. Mealtime interactions were further observed in 11 children from four centres, using a standardized data collection sheet. We recorded the child actions, such as mood, interest in food, distraction level, as well as caregiver actions, such as encouragement to eat, level of distraction and presence of neutral actions. Of the 33 children assessed, with a mean age of 15.9 ± 4.9 months, 14 (42%) were female. Undernutrition was found in 13 (39%) children with at least one Z score <−2 or oedema (2): height for age <−2 (11), weight for age <−2 (11), body mass index for age <−2 (4). Rates of undernutrition were highest (9 of 13; 69%) in children aged 18–24 months. Hand-washing before the meal was lacking in all centres. Caregivers were often distracted and rarely encouraged children to feed, with most children eating less than half of their served meal. Poor hygiene coupled with non-responsive care practices observed in the centres is a threat to child health, growth and development

A Comparative Study of Fear in Richard Wright\u27s Bigger Thomas, Ann Petry\u27s Mrs. Lutie Johnson, and Willard Motley\u27s Nick Romano

For the purpose of this study, the writer has defined an instance of emotion, emotion viewed with regard to one\u27s reaction in social, economic and religious life: a state of alarm or dread, a dread of something that will or may happen in the future. 3 The writer will attempt to prove that the protagonists under discussion in this thesis were in a state of alarm and that their reactions in their social and economic life were evidences of fear. This investigation is limited to three novels, Native Son, The Street, and Knock On Any Door, and a study of an analysis of the concept of fear found in only three characters, Bigger Thomas, Mrs. Lutie Johnson, Nick Romano, and the extent to which fear influenced these characters. Examples in the novels, of fear and passages which show the cause and extent of fear, will be presented. The writer will show by comparative analysis, similarities, and differences in the expression of fear in Bigger Thomas, Mrs. Lutie Johnson, and Nick Romano how this fear shaped their lives. It is important to know that from the experiences of the authors Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Willard Motley, the protagonists, Bigger Thomas, Lutie Johnson, and Nick Romano, were created and influenced. 3Stanley J. Kunitz, Twentieth Century Dictionary (New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1955)

Child undernutrition in affluent societies: what are we talking about?

In this paper we set out to explore the prevalence of child undernutrition found in community studies in affluent societies, but a preliminary literature review revealed that, in the absence of a gold standard method of diagnosis, the prevalence largely depends on the measure, threshold and the growth reference used, as well as age. We thus go on to explore describe the common clinical ‘syndromes’ of child undernutrition: wasting, stunting and failure to thrive (weight faltering) and how we have used data from two population-based cohort studies, this paper to explore how much these different ‘syndromes’ overlap and the extent to which they reflect true undernutrition. This analysis revealed that when more than one definition is applied to the same children, a majority are below the lower threshold for only one measure. However, those with both weight faltering and low BMI in infancy, go on in later childhood to show growth and body composition patterns suggestive of previous undernutrition. In older children there is even less overlap and most children with either wasting or low fat seem to be simply growing at one extreme of the normal range. We conclude that in affluent societies the diagnosis of undernutrition is only robust when it relies on a combination of both, that is decline in weight or BMI centile and wasting

A review about lycopene-induced nuclear hormone receptor signalling in inflammation and lipid metabolism via still unknown endogenous apo-10´-lycopenoids

Lycopene is the red pigment in tomatoes and tomato products and is an important dietary carotenoid found in the human organism. Lycopene-isomers, oxidative lycopene metabolites and apo-lycopenoids are found in the food matrix. Lycopene intake derived from tomato consumption is associated with alteration of lipid metabolism and a lower incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Lycopene is mainly described as a potent antioxidant but novel studies are shifting towards its metabolites and their capacity to mediate nuclear receptor signalling. Di-/tetra-hydro-derivatives of apo-10´-lycopenoic acid and apo-15´-lycopenoic acids are potential novel endogenous mammalian lycopene metabolites which may act as ligands for nuclear hormone mediated activation and signalling. In this review, we postulate that complex lycopene metabolism results in various lycopene metabolites which have the ability to mediate transactivation of various nuclear hormone receptors like RARs, RXRs and PPARs. A new mechanistic explanation of how tomato consumption could positively modulate inflammation and lipid metabolism is discussed

The Scholarly Communication Problem: Why Open Access is Necessary – A Transatlantic Perspective –

This article was written to raise awareness among researchers in the Open Access movement and share KU’s experience as a leader in Open Access policy. First published in September 2010 in the national daily paper Delo (Ljubljana, Slovenia) [http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6646], the piece has appeared in translation in newspapers in Croatia, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, among others