Eliminating the Individual Mandate: Effects on Premiums, Coverage, and Uncompensated Care

Outlines how removing the requirement to buy health insurance could affect coverage; government, employer, individual, and uncompensated spending; premiums; subsidies in the exchange; and Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment

Health Reform Across the States: Increased Insurance Coverage and Federal Spending on the Exchanges and Medicaid

Estimates state-by-state effects of healthcare reform, including variations by state in the impact on uninsurance rates, exchange subsidies, Medicaid enrollees, and federal spending. Analyzes state characteristics contributing to the variations

Effect of urea on Bacillus coli, Bacillus typhosus, and Staphylococcus aureus

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Bacteriology, 1922. ; Includes bibliographical references

House Republican Budget Plan: State-by-State Impact of Changes in Medicaid Financing

Estimates how the April 2011 Budget Plan passed by the House of Representatives would affect federal Medicaid funding for states between 2012 and 2021 and how in turn this would affect Medicaid spending and enrollment and hospitals under three scenarios

Ligand-receptor binding kinetics in surface plasmon resonance cells: A Monte Carlo analysis

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) chips are widely used to measure association and dissociation rates for the binding kinetics between two species of chemicals, e.g., cell receptors and ligands. It is commonly assumed that ligands are spatially well mixed in the SPR region, and hence a mean-field rate equation description is appropriate. This approximation however ignores the spatial fluctuations as well as temporal correlations induced by multiple local rebinding events, which become prominent for slow diffusion rates and high binding affinities. We report detailed Monte Carlo simulations of ligand binding kinetics in an SPR cell subject to laminar flow. We extract the binding and dissociation rates by means of the techniques frequently employed in experimental analysis that are motivated by the mean-field approximation. We find major discrepancies in a wide parameter regime between the thus extracted rates and the known input simulation values. These results underscore the crucial quantitative importance of spatio-temporal correlations in binary reaction kinetics in SPR cell geometries, and demonstrate the failure of a mean-field analysis of SPR cells in the regime of high Damk\"ohler number Da > 0.1, where the spatio-temporal correlations due to diffusive transport and ligand-receptor rebinding events dominate the dynamics of SPR systems.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figure

Considerations for small libraries in adopting virtual reality technology for medical education

Objective: Describe considerations for small libraries considering the adoption of virtual reality technology as a resource for health sciences education. Methods: A small academic medical library obtained grant funding to implement a virtual reality pilot project to support anatomy coursework. Results: Observations were made related to the technology selection and purchasing process, space and safety requirements for implementing VR, student patterns of use, supplementary VR programs of interest to medical students (including gaming and meditation programs for stress relief), and staffing/scheduling/maintenance of the system. Conclusions: Virtual reality technology is compelling for medical education; implementation resulted in increasing the library’s engagement with teaching faculty, students, alumni relations, and the curriculum. However, implementation requires careful consideration related to staffing, technology choices, use cases, safety, and other matters. Small medical libraries should be aware of various limitations and considerations prior to making large investments of money, space, or personnel time. Examples will be provided of concrete considerations for libraries