Medicaid-the need for reform: commentary

Health care reform ; Medicaid

Medicaid Policy and Long-Term Care Spending: An Interactive View

Examines state variations in Medicaid spending on long-term care and links between coverage policies and spending. Outlines potential factors, limitations of conventional methods of measurement, and an approach that includes interactions between policies

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be obtained as simple differences of group means on individual-level residential attainments scored from area racial composition. Drawing on the insight that in this framework index scores are additively determined by individual residential attainments, the book shows that the level of segregation in a given city can be equated to the effect of group membership (e.g., race) on individual residential attainments. This unifies separate research traditions in the field by joining the analysis of segregation at the aggregate level with the analysis of residential attainments for individuals. Next it shows how segregation analysis can be extended by using multivariate attainment models to assess the impact of group membership (i.e., the level of segregation for a city) while including controls for other relevant individual characteristics (e.g., income, education, language, nativity, etc.). It then illustrates how one can use these models to quantitatively assess the extent to which segregation traces to impacts of group membership on residential attainments versus other factors such as group differences in income. The book then shows how micro-level attainment models can be used to study macro-level variation in segregation; specifically, by estimating multi-level models of individual residential attainments to assess how the effect of group membership (i.e., segregation index scores) vary with city characteristics. Finally, the book introduces refined versions of popular indices that are free of the vexing problem of upward bias. This improves the quality of segregation measurement directly at the level of individual cases and expanding the number of cases that can be safely included in empirical studies

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

demographic techniques; quantitative research methods; segregation; bias; distributio

Spectra of Mutations Induced by Tritium Beta Radiation or 2-Chloroethyl Methanesulfonate in Drosophila Melanogaster Germ Cells.

Tritium beta radiation (tritium) was used to induce mutations at the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus in male Drosophila melanogaster post-meiotic germ cells. All 23 mutations recovered were deletions greater than one kilobase in size (multikilobase deletions) as determined by genetic complementation analysis. A statistical difference was observed between the frequency of multikilobase deletions (23/23 or 1.0) induced by tritium and the frequency of multikilobase deletions (19/27 or 0.7) induced by 100-kVp X-radiation (X-rays). The relative frequency of multikilobase deletions induced by tritium with respect to that induced by X-rays was 1.4. This value was compared to the relative biological effectiveness (RBE = 1.4) of these 2 radiation sources, determined from the ratio of the regression coefficients of the respective sex-linked recessive lethal (SLRL) dose-response data. A relationship may exist between the relative frequency of multikilobase deletions induced at the Adh locus and the RBE determined from the SLRL dose-response data. In addition, a genetic map of the multikilobase deletion break-points induced by tritium and by three monofunctional alkylating agents, 1-ethyl-1-nitrosourea, 1-methyl-1-nitrosourea and ethyl methanesulfonate, is presented. Previous in vitro research suggests that 2-chloroethyl methanesulfonate (Cl-EMS) will produce the same DNA adduct as 1,2-dichloroethane or 1,2-dibromoethane. D. melanogaster gonial cells were treated with Cl-EMS, and the sex-linked recessive lethal (SLRL) and alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) induced mutation frequencies were determined. The results of these studies were the following: First, mutation frequencies 200 times the spontaneous mutation frequency were induced with Cl-EMS. Second, lethal mutations on the X-chromosome were selected against in the hemizygous male. Third, the induced Adh mutation frequency was higher in the male than in the female. Fourth, all of the 83 Adh null mutations recovered were intragenic mutations as determined by complementation analysis. Fifth, treatment of gonial cells resulted in mutations of common origin, verified by DNA sequence analysis. Sixth, all 36 mutations of independent origin were GC to AT transitions. This study was supported by NIEHS PO1-EEO3447 and DE-FG05-86ER60393

Life History of a Clear Stream Minnow: Growth, Reproduction, Habitat Use, and Diet of Notropis Boops (Bigeye Shiner) in Triplett Creek

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Science at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science by Matthew T. Fossett on July 6, 2019

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

demographic techniques; quantitative research methods; segregation; bias; distributio

Doctrine after Foundationalism

Fossett, Robert, L. “Doctrine After Foundationalism.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2011. 250 pp. This essay argues for an account of Christian doctrine that will bring to light the lingering entrenchment of foundationalism within the context of religious discourse and will show this entrenchment for what it is: a confusion inherited from the Enlightenment (and ultimately from Plato). In its place I offer an account of doctrine that is more explicitly Christological than what is currently being offered in the modern discussion on doctrine and that at the same time, moves the conversation past the assumptions of foundationalism. A properly Christian account of doctrine, which includes both an account of Scripture and the Church, begins and ends with Jesus, the Son of God, Messiah. Scripture, the Church and her doctrine have their existence and find their purpose and meaning with Jesus, and nothing else

Alien Registration- Fossett, Violana J. (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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Optimising Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Numbers for Clinical Application: A Literature Review

Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are being investigated further for their use in stem cell therapies. However, as they are found in very low numbers in adult tissue, expansion in vitro is required to produce desired MSC numbers for clinical application. The need for effective cell-based therapies is increasing due to a rise in the ageing population, increasing the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders. This review investigates how factors, age and gender of donor, as well as seeding density can affect MSC expansion. Age and gender of donor have received mixed results from studies, whereas seeding density studies have produced consistent results for numerous MSC sources, favouring lower seeding densities. Further research is required to reduce the risk of infection, loss of cell characterisation in cell culture, and making cell-based therapies more cost effective through creating rapid expansion of MSCs regardless of patient factors