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Lyme Disease in Fairfield County, Connecticut: The Need to Know
There has been a steady rise in number of cases reported of Lyme disease in the past 25 years. In fact, it is the 7th most common reportable infectious disease in US with an estimated over 300,000 people diagnosed and treated each year. The total medical cost attributable to Lyme disease has been estimated to be as much as 492 million. Moreover, Lyme disease is associated with higher total health care cost and more outpatient visits over a 12-month period. According to the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the most number of cases of Lyme Disease in Connecticut is in Fairfield County. Therefore, education especially awareness and prevention is crucial to decrease the number of cases of Lyme each year, keep the cost down and have a healthier patient population without Lyme Disease.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1550/thumbnail.jp
Discovering cultural differences (and similarities) in facial expressions of emotion
Understanding the cultural commonalities and specificities of facial expressions of emotion remains a central goal of Psychology. However, recent progress has been stayed by dichotomous debates (e.g., nature versus nurture) that have created silos of empirical and theoretical knowledge. Now, an emerging interdisciplinary scientific culture is broadening the focus of research to provide a more unified and refined account of facial expressions within and across cultures. Specifically, data-driven approaches allow a wider, more objective exploration of face movement patterns that provide detailed information ontologies of their cultural commonalities and specificities. Similarly, a wider exploration of the social messages perceived from face movements diversifies knowledge of their functional roles (e.g., the ‘fear’ face used as a threat display). Together, these new approaches promise to diversify, deepen, and refine knowledge of facial expressions, and deliver the next major milestones for a functional theory of human social communication that is transferable to social robotics
Limited Horizons: The 2008 Report on Federal and Provincial Budgetary Tax Policies
Canadian governments are undercutting progress in reducing corporate income and capital taxes with counter-productive policies that impose unequal tax burdens across assets and industries. The study highlights priorities for improving the tax system by reducing taxes on capital investment and labour.tax competitiveness, fiscal policy, corporate and capital taxes
The Path to Prosperity: Internationally Competitive Rates and a Level Playing Field
While Canadian federal and provincial governments have made progress in reducing the tax burden on business investment in recent years, the 2009 budget season also saw more counterproductive tax policies that favour certain industries and disadvantage others. In this Commentary, the authors assess the implications of these trends for Canada’s competitiveness as they update their annual survey of marginal effective tax rates in Canada and individual provinces.tax competitiveness, marginal effective tax rate on capital
Lifting Slepton Masses with a Non-universal, Non-anomalous U(1)'_{NAF} in Anomaly Mediated SUSY breaking
We extend the Minimum Supersymmetry Standard Model by a non-anomalous family
(NAF) U(1)'_{NAF} gauge symmetry. All gauge anomalies are cancelled with no
additional exotics other than the three right-handed neutrinos. The FI D-terms
associated with the U(1)'_{NAF} symmetry lead to additional positive
contributions to slepton squared masses. In a RG invariant way, this thus
solves the tachyonic slepton mass problem in Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry
Breaking. In addition, the U (1)'_{NAF} symmetry naturally gives rise to the
fermion mass hierarchy and mixing angles, and determines the mass spectrum of
the sparticles.Comment: 13 pages; v2: version to appear in Phys. Lett.
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