Filiramoporina kretaphilia-a new genus and species of bifoliate tubulobryozoan (Ectoprocta) from the Lower Permian Wreford Megacyclothem of Kansas

12 p., 2 pl., 3 fig.http://paleo.ku.edu/contributions.htm

Interpreting The Pollution Exclusion Clause In The Comprehensive General Liability Policy - Ohio\u27s Next Step

Our purpose here is to analyze the courts\u27 treatment of the pollution exclusion clause. From the context of insurance policy interpretation, decisions regarding the exclusion will be reviewed and placed in a national perspective. The Ohio decisions will be examined against the backdrop of current trends and the national consensus. We conclude, for the reasons which follow, that the Ohio Supreme Court, when presented with the issue, should not adopt the findings of the Ohio appellate courts in interpreting the pollution exclusion clause, but should recognize that those decisions were wrong and follow the law which finds sudden and accidental not ambiguous. That is, the standard pollution exclusion clause is not ambiguous as drafted and the wording sudden and accidental should be accorded its literal and common meaning. These insurance coverage disputes should not be determined on the basis of the judicial canons of construction for insurance policies but on factual determinations in relation to these policies

The manipulated photographic images of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy: "a deconstructural approach"

From introduction: In the following essay an emphasis has been placed on manipulated photographic images. Although this implies a whole variety of ways in which these images can be manipulated e.g. in collage, silkscreen etc., the emphasis here is on images that have a fabricated or deliberate manipulation of subject matter to make up the photograph

V!ola Day!!! 2.0

Viola Day is presented by the Utah Viola Society. It includes masterclasses, instrument trials, performances, and more!https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/music_programs/1215/thumbnail.jp

Inefficiency as the major driver of excess costs in lung resection

BackgroundRisk-adjusted outcomes of surgical care are important for quality and cost assessments. Although cardiac surgery is commonly studied, risk-adjusted analysis of excess costs of lung resection has not been pursued.MethodsWe used 2002 to 2005 National Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project data to evaluate adverse outcomes and costs in elective lung resections in hospitals with more than 20 cases during that period. Adverse outcomes were inpatient death or excessive risk-adjusted postoperative stay. Logistic models were defined to predict adverse outcomes. Linear models were designed to predict costs. Hospital-specific adverse outcome rates and costs were measured to define performance outliers. Cost-effective reference hospitals were used to define total excess costs.ResultsAmong 12,182 patients at 215 hospitals undergoing lung resection, there were 336 inpatient deaths (2.8%) and 880 live discharges with prolonged risk-adjusted postoperative stay (7.2%). Predictive models for mortality and risk-adjusted postoperative stay had C statistics of 0.773 and 0.643, respectively. There were 11 ineffective hospitals (5.1%) with excessive adverse outcomes (P < .005) and 34 inefficient hospitals (15.8%) meeting quality measures but with higher than predicted costs (P < .0005). Ineffective hospitals had costs $1020 per case lower than predicted. Inefficient hospitals had costs$9978 higher than predicted.ConclusionsInefficiency is the major factor in excess inpatient costs associated with lung resection in this model. Although refinements in databases, including total physician costs and postdischarge adverse event costs, will alter models, excess costs of lung resection appear to be driven by inefficiency, not adverse outcomes

Visual analysis of social networks in space and time using smartphone logs

We designed and applied novel interactive visualisation to investigate how social networks - derived from smartphone logs - are embedded in time and space. Social networks were identified through direct calls between participants and calls to mutual contacts of participants. Direct contact between participants was sparse and deriving networks through mutual contacts helped enrich the social networks. Our resulting interactive visualisation tool offers four linked and co-ordinated views of spatial, temporal, individual and social network aspects of the data. Brushing and altering techniques help us investigate how these aspects relate. We also simultaneously display some demographic and attitudinal variables to help add context to the behaviours we observe. Using these techniques, we were able to characterise spatial and temporal aspects of participants' social networks and suggest explanations for some of them. We reflect on the extent to which such analysis helps us understand social communication behaviour

Applying the NASA SPoRT R2O/O2R Paradigm to Space Weather: MAG4 Applications and Assessment at SWPC

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Applying the SPoRT Paradigm to Transitioning the Near Real-Time MAG4 Solar Event Forecast Model into Space Weather Operations

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