How Will the Uninsured Be Affected by Health Reform?: Non-Elderly Uninsured

Estimates the share of the non-elderly uninsured who would be eligible for Medicaid expansions or subsidies under proposed reforms. Analyzes eligibility by age, parent status, work status, firm size, premium as percentage of income, and insurance status

Gaseous emissions from plants in controlled environments

Plant growth in a controlled ecological life support system may entail the build-up over extended time periods of phytotoxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds produced by the plants themselves. Ethylene is a prominent gaseous emission of plants, and is the focus of this report. The objective was to determine the rate of ethylene release by spring wheat, white potato, and lettuce during early, middle, and late growth stages, and during both the light and dark segments of the diurnal cycle. Plants grown hydroponically using the nutrient film technique were covered with plexiglass containers for 4 to 6 h. At intervals after enclosure, gas samples were withdrawn with a syringe and analyzed for ethylene with a gas chromatograph. Lettuce produced 10 to 100 times more ethylene than wheat or potato, with production rates ranging from 141 to 158 ng g-dry/wt/h. Wheat produced from 1.7 to 14.3 ng g-dry/wt/h, with senescent wheat producing the least amount and flowering wheat the most. Potatoes produced the least amount of ethylene, with values never exceeding 5 ng g-dry/wt/h. Lettuce and potatoes each produced ethylene at similar rates whether in dark period or light period. Ethylene sequestering of 33 to 43 percent by the plexiglass enclosures indicated that these production estimates may be low by one-third to one-half. These results suggest that concern for ethylene build-up in a contained atmosphere should be greatest when growing lettuce, and less when growing wheat or potato

The Impact of the Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program on Access to Care, Use of Services, and Health Status

Presents survey results on the impact of the Healthy Kids program, which provides uninsured children with comprehensive coverage, on access to care, unmet needs, use of specialty and dental services, health status, and parental satisfaction

Progress Enrolling Children in Medicaid/CHIP: Who Is Left and What Are the Prospects for Covering More Children?

Outlines the resources and tools in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 for data-driven enrollment and retention processes in Medicaid and CHIP, remaining barriers, and the need to tailor outreach efforts to specific needs

News release: NAU regents’ professor appointed to federal forest policy committee

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Renowned for his work in revolutionizing forest restoration practices, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor William Wallace “Wally” Covington, Ph.D., has been selected to help shape a 20-year national forest management policy that emphasizes conservation and landscape-scale restoration

Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health: A National Evaluation

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on prenatal care utilization, birth weight, and cesarean section. The results suggest the following: MMC was associated with a small, clinically unimportant decrease in the number of prenatal care visits; MMC had no statistically significant relationship to the APNCU index of the adequacy of prenatal care; MMC was associated with a significant increase in the incidence of low-birth weight and pre-term birth; and MMC had no association with the incidence of cesarean section. We argue that a causal interpretation of the first and third findings is unsupported by a careful reading of the evidence, and we conclude that Medicaid managed care had virtually no causal effect on, prenatal care use, birth outcomes, and cesarean section.

Diversification in Andean tit-tyrants (Aves, Tyrannidae)

In my thesis I investigate evolution and diversification of montane birds that inhabit dramatic environmental and latitudinal gradients, specifically within the genus Anairetes (Aves, Tyrannidae). I use phylogenetic, population genetic, and physiological methods to examine patterns of diversification across environmental gradients. In the first chapter, I infer the phylogeny of Anairetes tit-tyrants to provide an essential phylogenetic framework to ask subsequent questions of biogeography and diversification within the group. In the second chapter, I investigated the role of differential adaptation to altitude in promoting diversification and maintaining species limits between A. reguloides and A. nigrocristatus. The phylogeny of the flycatcher genus Anairetes was previously inferred using short fragments of mitochondrial DNA and parsimony and distance-based methods. The resulting topology spurred taxonomic revision and influenced understanding of Andean biogeography. In the first chapter, I revisit the phylogeny of Anairetes tit-tyrants using more mtDNA characters, seven unlinked loci (three mitochondrial genes, six nuclear loci), more closely related outgroup taxa, partitioned Bayesian analyses, and two coalescent species-tree approaches (Bayesian estimation of species trees, BEST; Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees, *BEAST). Of these improvements in data and analyses, the fourfold increase in mtDNA characters was both necessary and sufficient to incur a major shift in the topology and near-complete resolution. The species-tree analyses, while theoretically preferable to concatenation or single gene approaches, yielded topologies that were compatible with mtDNA but with weaker statistical resolution at nodes. Previous results that led to taxonomic and biogeographic reappraisal were refuted, and my results support the resurrection of the genus Uromyias as the sister clade to Anairetes. The sister relationship between these two genera corresponds to an ecological dichotomy between a depauperate humid cloud forest clade and a diverse dry-tolerant clade that has diversified along the latitudinal axis of the Andes. Species-tree and the concatenation approaches each reaffirm the use of mtDNA to provide phylogenetic signal for avian phylogenies at the species and subspecies level. This result is due in part to the abundance of informative characters in mtDNA, and in part to its lower effective population size that allows it to track the species tree. Local environmental pressures can drive the evolution of adaptive traits that confer a fitness advantage to an organism under local conditions. In the second chapter I investigate the role of differential physiological adaptation to altitude between sister-species: the elevationally widespread A. reguloides and the high-elevation restricted A. nigrocristatus. I measure the physiological response of each species to low ambient partial-pressure of oxygen at high elevations. At high elevation, A. reguloides shows evidence of hypoxic stress while A. nigrocristatus shows evidence of hypoxia resistance. I further quantify the phenotypic and genetic cline shape and the rate and direction of gene flow between the two species across a narrow contact zone where hybridization occurs at middle elevations. Phenotypic and genetic clines show a dramatic shift from A. reguloides to A. nigrocristatus across the 212 km elevational transect. Coalescent-based Isolation with Migration (IMa2) analysis suggests effectively zero introgression between parental populations. Upon secondary contact, the two species segregate elevationally. Physiological data, phenotypic and genetic cline shapes, and introgression patterns suggest that maladapted A. reguloides alleles are selected against at high elevations in the presence of hypoxia resistant A. nigrocristatus alleles. Differential local adaptation is associated with restricted gene flow and essential reproductive isolation, despite at least limited reproductive compatibility

Alien Registration- Dubay, Frank (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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Alien Registration- Dubay, Marie (Van Buren, Aroostook County)

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