Closing the Gap: How Improving Information Flow Can Help Community-Based Organizations Keep Uninsured Kids From Falling Through the Cracks

Evaluates how community-based organizations used a tool for systematic, ongoing data exchange with the state to monitor children's enrollment and redetermination status in public health insurance. Explores its potential to boost outreach and enrollment

School for the bilingual:dual master’s degrees in business and biotech

Advanced degrees that combine a master’s in business with a master’s in biotechnology are popping up at a number of universities. The programs aim to churn out students who will bridge the gap between scientists and managers at biotech companies. This article explores these dual degrees, the students’ skills when they graduate and what they can do for the biotech industry

Facing Up to the Truth

American GIs who liberated Dachau from the Nazis in April 1945 exist in our collective memory as iconic representations of the American soldier-hero: competent and capable, disciplined, principled and fundamentally good. From their collective example, we expect American soldiers to reveal, report, and excoriate war crimes. This makes it difficult to acknowledge that Americans may also commit war crimes—and on a regular basis

The Least We Can Do

In the early months of 2003, when the U.S. was only threatening war, humanitarian relief organizations expected thousands of refugees to flee from Iraq into neighboring countries of Jordan and Syria. They were surprised when it did not happen. Four years later, the anticipated wave has at last arrived—and in tsunami proportions

Optimizing Outreach and Application Assistance Services in Community-based Organizations: Evaluation Findings from The Colorado Trust's Outreach and Enrollment for Children and Youth Grant Strategy

This report discusses findings from the evaluation of The Colorado Trust's three-year, $3.3 million grant strategy (2009-2011) to help expand enrollment of children and youth in public health insurance programs in Colorado. These findings focus on how 12 community-based organizations, with little previous experience in providing application assistance to families to enroll children and youth in public health insurance, offered targeted outreach and application assistance services. These findings provide new insights into the time, effort and outcomes associated with implementing outreach and application assistance services, reinforcing and expanding upon previous literature demonstrating the promise and potential pitfalls of this approach

Changes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mt. Logan Wilderness.

Ponderosa pine forests in the Mt. Logan Wilderness on the Arizona Strip have become dense with young trees and highly susceptible to catastrophic wildfire due to exclusion of the natural frequent-fire regime and the effects of livestock grazing and logging associated with Euro-American land use practices. As part of a broader regional ecological restoration study, the Mt. Logan Wilderness was sampled for fire scarred trees, vegetation, and fuels between 1995 and 1997. Reconstructed fire histories show that fires recurred about every 5-6 years prior to settlement, with larger fires burning every 9-12 years. Frequent fires ceased after 1869-1879 in the Mt. Logan Wilderness, coincident with the time of Euro-American settlement, beginning a fire-free period that has lasted up to the present except for a few fires in the 1930s. Current forests are dense, ranging from approximately 700 to 3,000 trees/ha, and dominated by small trees. At both unthinned and thinned sites on basalt soils within the wilderness, tree canopy cover is over 50(percent) and tree basal area is high, 39-40 m2/ha. Understory cover and species diversity are generally low, but slightly higher on cinder soils where shrubs form an important understory community and where tree density is somewhat reduced. Living and dead fuels, including plants, woody debris, and the forest floor , will easily support high-intensity wildfires. In contrast, the presettlement forest was relatively open, with tree densities ranging from approximately 80-100 trees/ha and basal areas ranging from 10-15 m2/ha, dominated by large ponderosa pine trees. In ecological terms, prospects are good for restoring the Mt. Logan Wilderness to emulate the ecological structure and fire disturbance regime of the presettlement reference condition. The current forest is similar to nearby ecosystems where thinning, burning, and fuel treatments are being implemented. However, ecological information is only one component contributing to the debate over appropriate management values and practices in wilderness areas on public lands

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Demarcations

In this paper we present a set of key demarcations, particularly important when discussing ethical and societal issues of current AI research and applications. Properly distinguishing issues and concerns related to Artificial General Intelligence and weak AI, between symbolic and connectionist AI, AI methods, data and applications are prerequisites for an informed debate. Such demarcations would not only facilitate much-needed discussions on ethics on current AI technologies and research. In addition sufficiently establishing such demarcations would also enhance knowledge-sharing and support rigor in interdisciplinary research between technical and social sciences.Comment: Proceedings of the Norwegian AI Symposium 2019 (NAIS 2019), Trondheim, Norwa