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Issue framing and public opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court: an examination of the 2012 healthcare decision
Two years after its signing into law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), underwent a constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court. The Court’s decision to uphold the power of Congress in enacting most of the provisions of the ACA was regarded as a highly salient decision that is thought to have affected the public perception of the law. The focus of this thesis is to determine whether the Supreme Court was able to frame arguments used for or against the ACA in relation to the decision. By organizing and analyzing open-ended responses gathered from a panel survey both before and after the 2012 decision, I sought to determine how arguments used in discussion about the law and institutions regarding it varied after the decision. Findings show that the argument types used to explain individuals’ policy perceptions remained relatively stable throughout the waves. The study presented here offers an in-depth, micro-level effects of a real Court decision on individuals. By focusing on within-subject language change in a tight window around the decision, this approach helps clarify thinking about the relationship between the Court and public opinion
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DaT Scan “Abnormality” in Hyperglycemic-Hemichorea
Background: Hyperglycemic-hemichorea is a well-established clinical entity which leads to signal changes on brain MRI. We are reporting a case of hyperglycemic-hemichorea where the DaT scan showed reduced uptake bilaterally.
Case Report: A 57-year-old female was seen in the clinic for hemichorea due to hyperglycemia. Her brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed increased T1 signal intensity in bilateral lenticular nuclei and the DaT scan showed reduced uptake on both sides.
Discussion: This case highlights the importance of performing a DaT scan in the correct clinical context, as an abnormality on brain MRI can lead to false-positive DaT scan results
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Paraneoplastic Chorea Managed with Intravenous Amantadine
This letter responds to an the article entitled ‘Anti-CV2/CRMP5 paraneoplastic chorea effectively managed with intravenous amantadine.' The authors congratulate the authors of the original paper for this unique case report and make some suggestions for future cases
Mixed Logit Models and Network Formation
The study of network formation is pervasive in economics, sociology, and many
other fields. In this paper, we model network formation as a ``choice'' that is
made by nodes in a network to connect to other nodes. We study these
``choices'' using discrete-choice models, in which an agent chooses between two
or more discrete alternatives. One framework for studying network formation is
the multinomial logit (MNL) model. We highlight limitations of the MNL model on
networks that are constructed from empirical data. We employ the ``repeated
choice'' (RC) model to study network formation \cite{TrainRevelt97mixedlogit}.
We argue that the RC model overcomes important limitations of the MNL model and
is well-suited to study network formation. We also illustrate how to use the RC
model to accurately study network formation using both synthetic and real-world
networks. Using synthetic networks, we also compare the performance of the MNL
model and the RC model; we find that the RC model estimates the data-generation
process of our synthetic networks more accurately than the MNL model. We
provide examples of qualitatively interesting questions -- the presence of
homophily in a teen friendship network and the fact that new patents are more
likely to cite older, more cited, and similar patents -- for which the RC model
allows us to achieve insights
Maxillofacial Prosthetic Materials: A Literature Review
Rehabilitation of patients with disabilities of head and neck region, due to either congenital or acquired defects is a challenging task. These defects range from minor cosmeticdiscrepancies to major functional limitation. The prosthodontics management of these patients should aim at not only restoring the functional and esthetic handicap, but also ensurepsychological well being. For facial rehabilitation assessment of materials used in maxillofacial prosthesis is necessary. Till date we have come a cross various materials which exhibitsome excellent properties but also have many deficiencies. This article will review various materials used in maxillofacial prosthesis
[Re] Double Sampling Randomized Smoothing
This paper is a contribution to the reproducibility challenge in the field of
machine learning, specifically addressing the issue of certifying the
robustness of neural networks (NNs) against adversarial perturbations. The
proposed Double Sampling Randomized Smoothing (DSRS) framework overcomes the
limitations of existing methods by using an additional smoothing distribution
to improve the robustness certification. The paper provides a clear
manifestation of DSRS for a generalized family of Gaussian smoothing and a
computationally efficient method for implementation. The experiments on MNIST
and CIFAR-10 demonstrate the effectiveness of DSRS, consistently certifying
larger robust radii compared to other methods. Also various ablations studies
are conducted to further analyze the hyperparameters and effect of adversarial
training methods on the certified radius by the proposed framework
Trapping and sorting active particles: motility-induced condensation & smectic defects
We present an experimental realization of the collective trapping phase
transition [Kaiser et al., PRL 108, 268307 (2012)], using motile polar granular
rods in the presence of a V-shaped obstacle. We offer a theory of this
transition based on the interplay of motility-induced condensation and
liquid-crystalline ordering and show that trapping occurs when persistent
influx overcomes the collective expulsion of smectic defect structures. In
agreement with the theory, our experiments find that a trap fills to the brim
when the trap angle is below a threshold , while all
particles escape for . Our simulations support a further
prediction, that goes down with increasing rotational noise. We
exploit the sensitivity of trapping to the persistence of directed motion to
sort particles based on the statistical properties of their activityComment: 6 pages, 5 figures, for supplementary mpg files, see
"https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3cmswfoysdn0sb6/AACpEp-G3768B6Y62nDFj_Hea?dl=0".
This paper supersedes our earlier version arXiv:1603.08535 and contains
substantial new results including revised theoretical treatmen
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