A study of the limited service cases at the Boston Floating Hospital, January 1, 1951 to June 30, 1951.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Critique [of Chicano Ethnicity and Aging by Marvin A. Lewis]

Lewis\u27s article presents a creative and exciting approach for understanding the importance elderly people have not only in the family but in the community as well. He blends literary personification, cultural integration, and social science strategies for illustrating Chicano traditions and their relationships to the aging process. Literary works involving curandero/curandera and abuelo/abuela folk traditions depict reverance [reverence], honor, power, and prestige as engaging qualities inherited by the elderly. Lewis\u27s analysis of Anaya\u27s Bless Me Ultima and Santiago\u27s Famous All Over Town illustrate the congruence folk traditions have with the positive aspects of the aging process. By using literature to illustrate how cultural traditions are transmitted, Lewis shows social scientists the importance of creative fiction in rendering accurate, realistic portraits of people

Federal Employees: Human Resources Management Flexibilities for Emergency Situations

Federal executive branch departments and agencies have available to them various human resources management flexibilities for emergency situations involving severe weather, natural disaster, and other circumstances. At various times, the Office of Personnel Management issued guidance on these flexibilities, which supplements the basic policies governing staffing, compensation, leave sharing, and telework in Title 5 of the United States Code and Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Some examples of when issuances have occurred include following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005; in response to pandemic influenza in 2006; and in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017

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Projective dimension is a lattice invariant

We show that, for a free abelian group $G$ and prime power $p^\nu$, every direct sum decomposition of the group $G/p^\nu G$ lifts to a direct sum decomposition of $G$. This is the key result we use to show that, if $R$ is a commutative von Neumann regular ring, and $\mathcal{E}$ a set of idempotents in $R$, then the projective dimension of the ideal $\mathcal{E} R$ as an $R$-module is the same as the projective dimension of the ideal $\mathcal{EB}$, where $\mathcal{B}$ is the boolean algebra generated by $\mathcal{E} \cup \{1\}$. This answers a thirty year old open question of R. Wiegand. The proof is based on gaussian elimination on an $\omega \times \omega$ matrix, with adaptations enabling one to pass from the integers modulo $p^\nu$ to the integers.Comment: LaTex. 16 page

Federal Employees: Human Resources Management Flexibilities in Emergency Situations

[Excerpt] Federal executive branch departments and agencies have available to them various human resources management flexibilities which can be utilized in emergency situations, such as those which resulted from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and which could occur during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The Office of Personnel Management has issued guidance on these flexibilities, which supplements the basic policies governing staffing, compensation, leave sharing, and telework in Title 5 of the United States Code. Legislation (S. 1000, H.R. 4106, and a provision in H.R. 3221) to enhance telework in the federal government is pending in the 110th Congress

Critique [of Asians, Jews, and the Legacy of Midas by Alan Spector]

The author of Asians, Jews, and the Legacy of Midas presents a provocative comparative analysis of Asians and Jews. Spector utilizes both a cultural and economic basis for understanding the function of Asian stereotyping and applies his analysis to the Jewish situation. While the American context provides the locus of his research, he does present his argument in an international context. Spector illustrates how the categorization of Asians and Jews as the model for economic success is dehumanizing as such a perception drain(s) the life out of human beings and concretizes them into non-human statues. The conclusion of this author\u27s work in dealing with oppression based in stereotype is actually a starting point which scholars should begin addressing. To be sure, the model minority, as applied to Asians and Jews, has generated numerous articles and papers, and yet scholars have failed to develop analyses which reflect an interdisciplinary and historical approach to the reasons for propagating such stereotypes

Poverty, children's health, and health care utilization

This paper was presented at the conference "Unequal incomes, unequal outcomes? Economic inequality and measures of well-being" as part of session 1, "Health status of children and households in poverty." The conference was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on May 7, 1999. This paper discusses health as a direct measure of economic well-being and draws attention to those suffering the worst outcomes and the link between poverty and health. According to the author, in 1994 only 10 percent of children under age five in families making $35,000 or more were in less than very good or excellent health. By comparison, one-third of young children in families with income below$10,000 were in less than very good health. Moreover, in recent years the number of poor children whose health is fair or poor has increased relative to the number of nonpoor children in these same health categories. In 1987, for every nonpoor child with health problems, there were close to two children in poverty in poor health; by 1996, that ratio had risen to 2.7.Poverty ; Income ; Medical care